Dead Kennedys were prophetic when they named one of their albums “Give me convenience or give me death”.
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Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 11 hours agoYou always have a choice. You can ditch your morals entirely, give up, be subservient to the capitalists and give your identity over fully to the system like the good little consumer slave you are and enjoy your normie life looking at your normie phone and toss us all out as tinfoil-hatted weirdos who almost convinced you to make your life worse for the sake of self-sufficiency, independence and privacy.
Rooty@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Oh yes I forgot that pointing out the flaws in privacy-related things, so people who are interested in switching know what they’re potentially getting in to, is a big NoNo here…all hail the perfect FOSS which can do no wrong.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
The purity tests are so exhausting
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
Thought-terminating cliches like people crying crocodile tears about purity tests is even more exhausting to listen to.
Apathy and shaming people for vocally having principles isn’t going to change the world.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 22 minutes ago
They’re the ones foisting their requirements on others. Somebody shares what they do, and the purists come storming in with their righteous condescension. Nobody asked for that negativity.
ILikePigeons@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Yup, privacy (and many other things) should be done to ones ability and not to ability of others.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 8 hours ago
Privacy and security just doesn’t mean as much to you as usability and connectivity. There’s nothing really wrong with that if you’re ok with accepting it.