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  • He gets some hate but Rob Braxman on YouTube/Odyssey was one of my gateway drugs into the privacy community. He is kind of obnoxious at times but lays out a lot of technical and basic advice pretty well I think. Learned about degoogled phones and Bluetooth risks from him as a couple of examples. I also second Luis Rossman on YouTube/Grayjay, he’s more on the philosophical and legal side of things.





  • Soundcore by Anker Life Q20+ headphones have been good to my family. Seventy bucks, has a detachable aux cord (wired only does normal though, no ANC), stellar battery life even with ANC, microphone, has normal and pass-through modes in addition to ANC, and a nice protective bag. I used them for months as regular headphones attached to my computer. The ANC is not the end all be all but definitely helps with plane noise, I could hear flight attendants much easier.

    Edit - and no app required whatsoever!



  • These measurements were only genuinely started within the last hundred years, and people have been prophesying the end of the world the entire way. Greta posted a now-deleted tweet that said we’d all be toast in three years…back in 2018, for example. Climate changes, sure. But who is to say this isn’t natural and we may go back down in the future? These CO2 greenhouse gases that are said to be smothering the planet are estimated to be deadly at around 15% iirc. The atmosphere contains a fraction of a fraction of a percent of these. So while I definitely advocate stewardship of our environment, I sincerely doubt climate change will be what does us in and the people hyping it up are often doing so with intent separate from making the environment better. The climate change religion is easy to lean on because it’s been so widely propagated.