i've been like. a nerd .. (kinda) .... about privacy lately

i've been hearing a llllllot about laws that have been brewing about where like ,, age verification is Soon To Be everywhere or whatever

and just stuff adjacent to ai usage in general

i'm a little sick of it all

i mean idk. i got fedora linux on my computer a few days ago with a dual-boot setup. and it's been like okay kinda . tho im still trying to like adjust to it a bit , ,m like the command line interface is hard to get used to for example

i'm mainly for it because of what pros ive heard about in the past, like open-source , really up-there security compared to other operating systems , idk things like that

for now im using it as like a handicap option though . i'm not like tooootally against windows , currently ..... but im always hearing about things that make me consider one thing over another . though i don't want to accidentally fall for unreasonable biases

but you know .. the laws that i brought up before sorta served as like a driving force for me to move forward in that whole Tech Privacy direction , so ill kinda just see where i can go w that

not eeeeverything i've been thinking about was like strictly privacy oriented though. lately i've been looking into like .... dumbphones and stuff

i mean i imagine there's still a special kind of privacy i can get thru that also , like i can see there being limited user data collection within that whole sphere

but realistically i want to like at least ATTEMPT cutting down on my smartphone usage . and that's what me pursuing dumphones was primarily about . because like. idk as a longtime smartphone user i feel like it'd be interesting to see what i could get out of using a dumbphone as a main thing to carry around

i can't cave in currently but i'm at least like. more interested than before