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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • I was willing to overlook:

    • The bed costs $2,000
    • It won’t function if the internet goes down
    • Basic features are behind an additional $19/mo subscription
    • The bed’s only controls are via mobile app

    My man would have been willing to overlook having Jeff bezos himself sleep in his bed with him before realizing what was happening.













  • It is the norm right now already.

    The only way out is specifically buying only products that don’t do this shit, or ones that have been jailbroken and run open source software.

    But the very best way to stop it all for good is to kill online advertisement. Online advertisement is the number one reason companies want your data to begin with. Go to your grandma’s house, install adblock origin and sponsorblock.

    When you have kids. Disable the google play store and install fdroid, and install an adblocker on their chromium of gecko browser. Replace all default apps with the fdroid alternatives.

    Get the oldest raspberry pi device and install Pihole, then make it your DNS service so all lan and WiFi data runs through your adblocker.

    Donate to open source projects, brag to your friends how your apps have no ads and no tracking.

    Fight for right to privacy and right to repair. Stop using google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta.

    Use Linux instead of Windows. If you need windows, run it in a virtual machine without internet access.

    Use grapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS instead of basic Android.

    As for home systems like security cameras, I suggest following the ultimate open source guide by Louis Rossmann.