Privacy from my perspective is a mix and mach, not a goal to achieve. Its a continuum, a lifestyle, like veganism, not ruining the environment, etc.
Of course you can try to not exist in the registries of big corpos and governments but for that you need insane amounts of discipline and decades of experience, not to mention extensive computer knowledge.
You can achieve good results by using some very basic measures like ad blockers, not accepting any cookies if you can help it. That already just moves the needle in your case. Then you tell your friends to do just this.
If you are curious and want to do more, you can but if you dont have capacity, jusy leave it at that.
What you're talking about is virtue signaling to gain attention. People try to "be good" in the eyes of their perceived mentors and "fans". They post how paranoid they are in the hope of achieving upvotes or other forms of clout. Its not real. What you're feeling is the emptiness of clout and the pointlessness of doing even a good thing for mostly selfish reasons. The return on investment is not great enough.
Thats why one should never try as hard as they can to avoid privacy invasion but just take all passive measures they can put in without negatively impacting their lives.
I for example tried a lot of things but I'm a programmer and system integrator. I do this shit for a living. I tried using a postmarketOS phone as a daily driver. It didnt work out because even after months i still had to think around my phone to not constanly face being disadvantaged. Thats why i changed to lineageos. It is not as awesome as postmarketos but for now, it does the trick, without falling all the way back to apple or stock android. Same goes for pc. Using linux mint or ubuntu is no shame. Its far better than going for arch or nix and falling back to windows.
The important part is to not give in to fascistoid systems and still be functional enough to live, not only survive, if possible.
If you need any help or advice, feel free to contact me.
Honestly, at this point the company should be dismantled and the leadership thrown in prison. These corporate edgelords wont learn. They will just overstep, inch by inch and the courts will understate their deeds over and over until there is only one company that rules the world and sell you your fucking liver by the minute.
This is absolutely no problem with virtualbox and a win10 vm. I tried wine as well but no luck. You just need to pass the usb port to the vm and youre good. I had to reboot the apple device though so it would connect correctly.
To be fully honest, running windows on the device should not be much more demanding than running windows baremetal. Because running a win10 vm means running the os in factory new condition and not having any additional autostarts etc. Only reason against that in my book would be a missing virtualization extension.
This is the main character syndrom. People consider themselves the main character in this world and the others just npcs (non player characters, bystanders). Best way to tech them is a bucket of cold water (literally or figuratively).
If you read again what I wrote instead of jumping to conclusions you would see that I am in contact with other instance admins. We talk about things like this. You're not the expert here. This is not an issue in general. If there are communities where this is a problem, you can always switch or make a competing one that does not care about reports. The more important part is that reports dont have any automated impact on most lemmy instances, meaning that it doesnt mean shit if you get a 1000 reports per post, which still doesnt happen in general. Otherwise we would be getting informed about it.
Edit: i checked your post history. This absolutely fits with your question and your reaction to being told its not a problem in general. You are the problem. Aggressive, dismissive language that adds no value to the conversation whatsoever. Please do better or go back to whatever trollfactory you jumped out of. Good bye.
"Most other services don't do this, and it results in 'dogpiling' reports."
This is a fallacy. You're assuming causality where there is none. Mass reporting of people happens in competitive - and more important - toxic spaces. Lemmy is a very varied - because decentralized - assortment of communities.
So before you ask "which places punish this?" You should ask, "is this a problem here?"
As an instance admin I can tell you, it is not. Neither I nor other instance admins I am in contact with are seeing this.
I know that. And you're right that corporations are working hard to keep good things from happening. I'm saying history and science are disagreeing with you (edit:) about the conclusion you draw from it.
So you're assuming based on failed attempts. Psa: there is no relation between things failing and the likelyhood of them succeeding. Many things have failed many times and then succeeded.
If you use plex and jellyfin anyway, i suggest checking raspberry pi and kodi (libre elec) as an alternative. The pi4 is fine for hd at least, some use it for 4k but i have no exp with that. It works well and helps you get off the apple ecosphere.
Fully agree. Make issue, open bug bounty if you wish. Ask your community for donations or plain make a paid service so you can handle finances. Thats it. Of course things can always improve but that also requires that instances drive donations to the devs and are active in decisionmaking.
Thanks. Very nice of you to say that. Have a good one.