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I'm very bad at convincing people to care about their privacy (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by pandorabox@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The title says it all. Part of what i do now is to convince people to care about their privacy. I know I cannot force people to do anything. And I have a charisma level of -1, if this was an rpg. Like its nonnexistent.

I feel lonely in general because it feels like people make me feel like I'm delusional for caring about protecting my privacy. Maybe there is a support group for that🤣🤣🤣

But anything I can specifically say that works best in planting a seed in people's mind?

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[–] pandorabox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Nope going all in🤣 want all my space. Maybe with my real laptop, i should leave windows on there with a portion with the orginal stuff that only takes 1/3 of the drive. But i kinda want all 1tb of space.

I dont really want to use windows anymore at all. I was watching a video in my private tab of my browser and windows decided to install some updates. I lost my spot in my video and forgot what video it was. Extra salt. And all the privacy concerns are a big nono.

The only problem is my cameras being bricked if i switch to linux because i have a surface tablet.

But yeah i downloaded a lot of chatting apps to talk to people but its less since im mostly using signal and lemmy. But i still use discord at points.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ah yeah that's a predicament. Do you know what distro you are going to be using? If you haven't decided, Fedora with GNOME as the DE is a good bet. Otherwise Zorin or Ubuntu, again with GNOME. Apparently that DE is better for devices with touchscreens.

[–] pandorabox@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Oh they just get bricked. I dont know, something microsoft did to surfaces after surface 4, they cant get them to work with any linux distro. Thats the only reason to keep the cameras for job interviews. But again usb webcams exist. Hmmmm..

People keep on saying aurora is best option for surface, because everything work except the cameras. Not sure if i need a plug in keyboard. Forgot to ask about that. But the keyboard that comes with the surface should work.

Truuu, i should check into fedora! Thanks for the advice!!❤️