Purism: advice given in genuinely bad faith
Before I start, when I say “bad faith”, I mean the original etymological definition as described by Edward Snowden's end of 2021 post on Substack.
I saw this post from Purism and I genuinely cringed.
This is because almost none of this advice is actually usable to anyone who can barely turn on his/her/their own device, let alone manage it by himself/herself/themselves in an actionable manner (except for literally buying Purism hardware right this moment).
At that point, you'd be better off hiring Michael Bazzell as a privacy adviser rather than genuinely trying to follow the advice from Purism.
That reminds me: I hate you Purism for limiting your RSS feed entries to the first 100 words (or something lame like that), so now I have to open up my browser to read your whole article instead of reading it inside of Newsboat.
You really are “just Apple, but open source” (and have the minimum requirements for sane laptop repairability)... but change nothing else. Well, at least some devices are made in the USA... which can't be said for Apple's current product offerings.
Oh, also Searching is a much better film to recommend about the state of society and a film of its time at the end of the 2010s than some trashy fluff film.
Now I really want to watch Searching again...