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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.
Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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In our home, we have an on/off switch, the kind one actually needs to move their ass to in order to be able to press it, for our electricity and light bulbs. Our fridge does cold and that’s it. It also don’t need no WiFI and never needed any update. Toilets are flushing water just fine with the press of a button, no WiFi required either. Our heaters do… heat when we turn them on (so much work!). Our coffee pot is just that, a coffee pot that’s using good old coffee we dose with a spoon with hot water on top of it, exactly like we do with tea just in a different pot. Our washing machine washes the laundry after the turn of two buttons (thinking about it, maybe I should file for extra-hours for all that work?). We don’t own a dishwasher because most of the time there is only the two of us worth of dishes to wash and I kinda enjoy washing them by hand while I let my mind wander (often get my best ideas like that, like when I’m under the shower). Oh, almost forgot, our doorbell is just that: a doorbell with no WiFi, no camera, no cop to ask to see the footage, no cloud subscription, and no hackers.
And that’s kinda the same with our not so smartphones: no app installed beside the few ones we really need access to (bank, security and shit like that), no social media apps, no email, no games, no Netflix, or the likes (we have quit subscribing to all those ‘services’ a few years ago, moving back to physically owned media). And for our TV, well, we don’t own a smart TV, as a matter of fact we own no TV at all since we’ve decided some 25 years ago that we wanted not to pay good money while still be forced to watch ads (anyone noticing a parallel with what streaming services have started doing in recent years?).
Our books are physical books. And that was the last digital bastion in our home, as I had been almost exclusively reading ebooks for decades, out of convenience, but realizing how we did not truly own them and how they tracked our reading habits, it’s back to print.
In summary: there is a loft of dumbness going on in hour home which suits both my spouse and I, I’m (not) afraid to say so ;)
See, I’m just the opposite. You give me a trad book of any topic I am genuinely interested in and I’ll never crack the binding. Give me the same book in an digital form and I’ll read it many times.
That’s cool too. Like I said I was into ebooks too but decided to shift away for two reasons: privacy & ownership.
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Re-reading can be magic. Won’t work all the time but when it does… I fear many readers won’t ever try that.
I prefer to call this a lifelong allergy to noise. Something I’ve been allergic to since I was a young kid.
It doesn’t mean I hate music or that I can only be happy surrounded by silence, quite the contrary I love music. It just is an allergy to those very specific kind of noise that are devised to prevent you from using your brain and that try to have you always react wit your guts instead.
Exactly like with TV and ads, most politics, most social media and, sadly, most traditional media too. It’s something learned by growing surrounded by a few adults that were in constant anger. Realizing I wanted to never be like that.
Thanks for sharing your own experience, it’s great to hear a similar one :)