Do you know for sure that all traffic out of your devices is properly encrypted? Do you know for sure that non of your devices is listening on a port in an unsecured or vulnerable way?
Realistically, a public WiFi is not that big of a deal as it used to be before almost everything moved to authenticated and encrypted protocols, but there are still plain protocols being used all the time (dns for example) and unless your devices are super up to date you will probably have some possible security issues.
Given the choice you should use a private WiFi, second best is a VPN over a public WiFi, third is a plain public WiFi.
We are past the days of connecting to an attacker controlled WiFi means you are owned, but you are still at a privacy risk and some security risk.
"As long as the safety is off it isn't really dangerous to give your kid a gun" 8 times out of 10 this will turn out fine, 1 times out of 10 you get a hole in your house, and 1 times out of 10 someone gets shot 🤷♂️
I always find it funny that people imagibe that in an apocalypse a modern fossil fuel vehicle would be any good. Unless you know how to modify the engine to use realistically self-producable fuel you will be able to run it for only a few months before all the fuel in the world degrades and starts destroying/not running the engine. Better off getting electric vehicles as electricity is actually easy to produce.
Your last point is more of a philosophical / semantical one. What does it even mean that something is a specific color?
It's like how blue butterflies actually don't have any blue pigments but rather have a nanostructure that interferes with light in a way that favors blue.
About as much as I trust other drivers on the road.
As in I give it the benefit of the doubt but if something seems off I take precautions while monitoring and if it seems dangerous I do my best to avoid it.
In reality it means that I rarely check it but if anything seems off I remove it and if I have the time and energy I further check the actual code.
My general approach is minimalism, so I don't use that many unknown/small projects to begin with.
Do you know for sure that all traffic out of your devices is properly encrypted? Do you know for sure that non of your devices is listening on a port in an unsecured or vulnerable way?
Realistically, a public WiFi is not that big of a deal as it used to be before almost everything moved to authenticated and encrypted protocols, but there are still plain protocols being used all the time (dns for example) and unless your devices are super up to date you will probably have some possible security issues.
Given the choice you should use a private WiFi, second best is a VPN over a public WiFi, third is a plain public WiFi.
We are past the days of connecting to an attacker controlled WiFi means you are owned, but you are still at a privacy risk and some security risk.