“Keys can be stolen or hacked”. Assuming that an adversary gains access to your user account on your local computer? Well, there is no messaging protocol that will “protect” you and your data when an adversary has unrestricted access to your user account.
I am not sure for whom this article was written. “It’s hard to exchange keys” is Computer Security 101. That’s how public-key cryptography without a centeralized PKI works. The only valid argument against PGP I could recognize here is the fact that PGP provides no forward secrecy.
Uhm, no? I can still start calls on meet.jit.si without logging in.
No, do that. Fully legitimate to choose friends with similar values. If privacy awareness is a big thing for you, do that, really. I survived college without installing Discord. It did bar me out of many groups, but I still had a fairly large circle of friends. I guess Germany is a bit different regarding privacy awareness among younger people, though.
If you are not in the mood for doing much tinkering, there is a German electronics manufacturer called TechniSat and they sell a multi-function radio called DIGITRADIO 3 VOICE. It has an offline voice assistant. The voice commands can be used to pause, change audio source, increase volume, etc. The radio deck has okay-ish sound, I wouldn’t call it hi-fi but it doesn’t sound like two tin cans. The function is actually for blind people (I bought one for my grandma who is legally blind), but I guess privacy enthusiasts would find it adequate, too.
The PineTime has a great feature set, but the build quality is terrible. I guess it’s perfectly justified for the price, but I don’t know; I don’t feel good having to order a new PineTime every six months once the last one I bought dies.
I am planning to buy a Casio B5600. There is a FLOS companion app for it, and it has a G-Shock frame; that thing ought to endure a bit before giving up :P
Excuse me if this is an obnoxious question: But why not just Firefox with the DDG extension (if you really need it)? Search engine-specific browsers tend to be… bad in general. It’s going to be a wrapper around some other browser anyway.