I am not creating a argument but merely pointing out that your sense of concern and risk assessment differs from that of most people.

Many things are common. It doesn’t make them safe or legal. https://www.aao.org/education/clinical-video/scleral-tattoo-gone-wrong

Smartcard authentication, probably. But that does not protect against other people using your computer via malware.

Injecting black dye into his eyes you don’t find concerning at all?

Within 100 miles of the border there is a warrantless search exception, but I hear you.

In a sense, he’s right. I miss good old Earth.

Not if your tablet runs an open source operating system without tracking. Like GrapheneOS or LineageOS, which both can be set up entirely without Google services, or sandboxing apps.

I also use LineageOS, which also comes sans Google as a flavour, but it’s far less secure and much rougher about the edges than GrapheneOS. I choose hardware by alternative OS support. If you want a new tablet the only option is Pixel.

GrapheneOS. No need to even degoogle.

Thanks!

You have to migrate your community to a new instance, and notify the users about its new location. Old content from lemm.ee will remain accessible.

Interesting. What do you like about it?

Unfortunately, I had to move my community from there after some admin started interfering with the content.

I like Qubes OS and ran it daily, for years. While it’s not completely bullet-proof (there are ways to break out of VMs and x86 hardware is probably riddled with exploitable bugs and deliberate backdoors) it’s the best publicly available usable thing we have.

You don’t have to break encryption if you compromise the endpoint.

If you’re specifically targeted by the NSA or even a national security service there is not much you can do. However, assuming that the network is always hostile is a sensible position. Because it is.

There is not much value added in Latvia. At least some of their hardware is supported by OpenWRT https://openwrt.org/toh/mikrotik/start though.

Mikrotik is proprietary, and has a bad security track.

With multi-layered defense you should protect your network, but not trust that you always succeed.

Paid off old nuclear is cheap but unsafe. New nuclear is the most expensive power there is, and takes forever to build and the result is not guaranteed to be reliable. Unless you’re Russia, or China.

And it’s unclear where you’ll be getting your fuel, nor is it guaranteed in future.