Which distro does she have installed?

Take the Fairphone over the Pixel since you’re in Europe

1. Purchase spare chromebook (with cash)
2. Purchase spare SIM (cash)
3. Get TOTP working with spare SIM, link FOSS authenticator app, delink phone number.
4. Throw away SIM.
5. Get a flash drive, wipe, load videos on it.
6. Go to public location, sign into Google account from there, upload video.
7. Remove battery from Chrome book after uploading video, only ever plug it into power in the proximity of WiFi hotspots which can’t be traced to you.
8. Preferably don’t bring your phone with you since they can track you through that

Very nice read, I look forward to posts with detailed explanations of realistic privacy setups!

With that said, here we go:

1. TOR has been compromised. It likely doesn’t matter if you’re not doing anything that nations would be interested in, but something to keep in mind.
2. True nerds/privacy hobbyists always have multiple browsers for different use-cases. Bravo! I need to take a look at Mullvad myself, I really don’t like Brave anymore.
3. Do you host your SearXNG instance? It should not be very hard to do on the cloud.
4. Which DNS resolver? I’m assuming this is upstream to your Adguard setup, which means the latter acts as the recursive resolver in your setup, if I understand correctly.
5. Didn’t hear about SecureBlue before this, good distro in theory. Thanks.
6. Ever thought of getting a 10-year old Thinkpad yet to get rid of that pesky BIOS? \s
7. Do you have DoT and DNSSEC set up for your “private” DNS? Also, is this something like Quad9?
8. With the combination of flight mode and a Faraday bag along with not having a SIM, I’m assuming that people don’t reach you using traditional means (calling). How do you stay in contact with others?
9. Define “locking down” of public accounts.
10. I have been thinking of AI for a bit, and you can get a P40 with 24GB VRAM for about $100-$150 on Ebay. Put that in an old computer and fight with licensing for a bit (Craft Computing has a good video on getting VFIO working on Nvidia cards by tricking the software) and you’ll have a great setup for AI.
11. I’d stop with the subscriptions and start sailing the high seas, personally, but I understand if the sentiment does not sit well with people here. Piracy simply gives you more control and privacy. Look at LocalMonero to try and get monero without leaving a trace (directly converting fiat to XMR and exchanging for gift cards online after churning).
12. You must be using an old TV, but if you really need to purchase a new TV at some point (and it’s very likely to be “smart”), you can simply disconnect the WiFi antenna from the back of the device. If you’re really good at embedded systems, you could find the flash chip that holds the BIOS/OS of the TV and remove it (and edit the boot sequence) or flash it with something else. This is true for everyone who has a smart TV.
13. Holy shit this guy programs games to play them what a chad.
14. Please switch to Codeberg, Gitlab is annoying.
15. How do you coordinate local time with other people if your clocks are set to UTC?

That was a lot. Thanks for reading!

I do agree somewhat. The main argument coming against it is not following the “Unix philosophy” which I’m a proponent for, making systemd annoying.

Void, Slackware, Alpine, Gentoo, Devuan (although I’d like for them to remove even the slightest semblance of systemd), FreeBSD