The most important part is balancing your own safety with limited time and resources. Perfection is not achievable, getting as close as you can is not practical in most cases, and prioritizing safety a lot of times limits what you're able to do. So you need to do a cost/benefit analysis on these sort of solutions and decide whether they're worth doing, which is very contextual (and in the end, you're going to need to trust something somewhere unless you reinvent everything on your own).

For instance, in the US if you're a middle class cishet white male citizen who ignores politics, you're biggest problem is probably ads, companies knowing your financial info, and tools being more locked down, so the reasonable response would be to use an ad blocker and switch to open source/self-hosted software when it's convenient, but not to the point where you have to program all sorts of things yourself unless you really enjoy that. If you're working class, time and finances is more limited so the extent to which self-hosting, paid services, and CLI tooling becomes impractical might be sooner. If you're a minority, there's not really much that can be done that doesn't severely affect quality of life (like living in the middle of the woods with no technology if you know you're being hunted by the government, which sounds fucking terrible but probably better than being sent to a concentration camp in a remote country). If you're an activist or an immigrant or doing something illegal, compartmentalizing data that would probably get you in trouble onto devices (that you can afford) with a strong security setup that doesn't touch anything else you own and doesn't cross borders while verifying that the people you communicate with are also on a similar setup and doing other "paranoid" security/privacy measures (while being careful not to draw suspicions) is probably a good idea. If you're trying to be private for the sake of advocating for privacy, then do what you want to do.

Spotube is decent for playing Spotify playlists you come across or people send you

Sooner or later we're gonna have to bypass the Great Firewall of America by VPNing into China

I'm looking at r/Conservative, Gab, and other far-right outlets to see what is happening with the incoming administration, and all I can say is what the actual fuck

We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!

I can't decide whether this is hilarious or terrifying

dihydrogen monoxide is also dangerous, we must ban it as well

and move where? to another country electing fascists?

TikTok is popular because it's addicting, not because it's useful, so I don't understand why anyone would use this.

Doesn't NYT cut off most of the article now? I used to just be able to disable JS but that didn't work anymore last I checked.

I'm a duck btw

Fedora is a good middle ground, it's what Asahi Linux uses as its official distro

My high school from a red state was like 99% white and also 99% conservative and had this attitude of racism is bad but also racism doesn't exist anymore then proceeds to make racist jokes and support racist politics (including students who were very academically focused), although it never evolved to anything as stupid as taking a group photo holding up a racial slur. There was a lot of stuff from there though that seemed normal at the time then after I left realized how fucked it was, and I know of other people who think the same thing.