I don't think there is truly such a thing as too old. I would still live at home if I could I think, I like having people I care about around. That being said, it's more a question of if it works for your family and you. If they are cool with it and you are in a position where you're comfortable I don't see an issue. maybe talk to them about it.
Waterfox on my laptop, using Rehike for YouTube, uBlock origin, and DuckDuckGo privacy essentials not because it does much more than uBlock, but because of the built in unlimited email aliases. Incredibly useful feature.
On mobile I use stock brave since waterfox for iOS isn't out yet, and it collects no directly identifiable information unlike Firefox which for some reason does.
I was an early adopter of Gemini and even hosted some stuff on there years ago, but ultimately I don't see a point when things like gopher exist and Gemini is a wasteland when it comes to interesting stuff to browse. Though admittedly the concept of an encrypted gopher protocol is pretty nice to me. I feel a lot more of the old internet feeling on there, i.e everyone else using it is a like-minded hobbyist with no corporate overlords. But even then things like activitypub that we are using right now also have that so idk.
if you request your data from them under CCPA, and it shows the edited comments as gibberish, you're good. I did the same thing but I left the comments to simmer for a long time like months.
I see. Well, at least my local rehike front-end won't break then. but still that's so bad. I hate the new trend of every desktop site pretending you're on an iPad in terms of layout.
if they actually remove comments, I'm done. the API scandal got me off of Reddit and the comments being gone will get me away from YouTube. I only really watch it while I'm eating as is.
I've been stockpiling currencies and practicing another language, while looking into citizenship through my heritage. Also been reading a lot of info over on resisters.info I've never really been one to worry about stuff like politics to this degree, but the world as a whole is just getting so crazy and I just want to be able to live a peaceful life, so I want to prepare incase.
I think that frankly, we need them around but solely for transactions. treating them as anything else or positively promoting them under some pump and dump scheme is a big NO. But for example, using something like monero over TOR to buy a VPN to avoid censorship under a dictatorship? yes, we begrudgingly need it around for stuff like that.
hmm... maybe I need to find a secret hobby of my own. most of my free time is spent just kinda staring off bored.