Also depends on your definition of privacy. Some people confuse privacy (not seeing what you do) with anonimity (not knowing who you are).

Public blockchains (like BTC) have zero privacy, as everyone sees the transactions and balances, meanwhile private ones (like XMR) supposedly avoid anyone but two people in a transaction to know that transaction happened, or even to know each other’s balance.

In both cases, I would say you are as anonymous as your way to turn the coin from/into fiat is (P2P, KYC or non-KYC platforms, etc.).

Like with AI, I like crypto as a concept, but the practice… (specially the resources both consume for what little benefit they end up having)

Nah, infighting always works best.

If you are gonna deliberately disregard OP’s specific request just to give your own answer, you’d better save time saying nothing.

“You are wrong little guy”

Imagine asking for apples and someone telling you that you are wronf and giving pears saying they are better…

And where will that end up? Oh, in one of the two biggest parties getting the votes anyways because it’s where most people go to, but with a worse candidate.

But go on about how it is more useful to be irrelevant and correct than relevant and half correct.

Honestly, the thing I don’t see going anywhere is this conversation. You aren’t going to change my mind and I’m not gonna change yours. If you think it’s more useful to start from zero, that’s your belief, I got mine. Hope you have a great day.

Shit, there goes another alternative to my VISA card T-T

No offense, you give the same vibes as anarchists that say it is better to not vote at all to show they are against the state.

What would be your plan, Mamdani making a party of his own and getting nowhere because he has no platform to stand on, allowing a Republican or an average Democrat to get in power instead?

In an ideal world, he wouldn’t need to use Democrat’s party as a platform. But we aren’t in an ideal world, so if you want change, you need an existant platform to stand on.

Oh, people do have a choice. Buy stuff or be misreable and/or die.

Same as Mamdani, even if his choices’ consequences are less extreme for him (get a platform big enough to make change even if not the ideal one, or fall into irrelevance having achieved nothing).

Purists like you are the resson the left is so divided. Nothing like waiting for the (nonexistant) perfect candidate while letting psss the (existing) unperfect candidates.

“If capitalism bad why you buy stuff” ass question

Too late to fix the shitass OS, I’m already on Linux Mint lol

Given the rest of things will stay the same, I prefer to be pandered to than not at all

Say what you wanna say about Rainbow Capitalism, but it’s kinda a mine canary situation. If they don’t do it, it means it’s not profitable, which is a great indicator shit is not going good in public acceptance.

Basic neccesities (healthcare, including mental healthcare, nutrition, electricity, clothing, heating, water, communication, housing, transport, etc.) should be covered by default.

Then, less basic neccesities (like entertainment, fashion, safe drugs) could be profited from.

I only understood “unionised force” and I gotta say “based”.

I still find it kinda funny that it’s called “cp”

And while at that, I recomend regular Mint (which is based on Ubuntu).

There is Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE), but I have found it harder to use (while I can manage, I’m not that experienced with Linux to bother to troubleshoot and solve it [at least at the time], but I think it was dependency, incompatibility, or driver issues).

Plus, the main Mint version is still the Ubuntu based one, LMDE is kinda a side project and usually isn’t as up-to-date, as far as I know.

When I had suicidal ideation without believing in anything beyond, I started to wonder how dying would feel from my own POV… so “it will be a dream that, from my point of reference, will never end” is the conclussion I reached from hearing about dreams, coma dreams, and “see life in front of my eyes” stories.

Idk… that sounds pretty harsh and cruel. While I (currently) believe there might not be a beyond, there might be a “something” where consciousness is stuck in its last moments… if someone already has an idea of it, and they are peaceful, I won’t change their mind… I’ll just be there for them, comfort them, let their brain create the image of that happy place so they can live “stuck” in hapiness during their last moments…

It’s pretty much the best I can hope for myself, too… convince myself that there will be something beyond just so my dying brain creates such image for me to “live” in during my last moments…

Yeah… as much as I hate my so-called mother, I think it would be needlessly cruel to do that to her… have enough empathy/sympathy to not do it.

Specially because I believe, while there might not be a beyond, there might be a “something” where consciousness is stuck in its last moments… and I wouldn’t want even her to be stuck with the dread of dying, or the hopelessness of being hated in the deathbed, but hopefully her brain creating the image of “heaven”… a better place where she is happy, and not the unhappy bad person she ended up being…

You are not immune to propaganda

Exactly. It’s optional… as long as ypu don’t plan on using internet.