Boot licking is cringe

Stock IOS is probably more privacy friendly than android. Googles entire business is to make money off your data. Stock android uses google play services that have access to pretty much everything on your phone. Apple will bend to politicians on scanning your files and shit, but at least they (probably) aren't selling your data. As much as google at the very least.

But like many comments here, if you actually care about privacy, stock anything isn't the way to go. I use calyxos and find it to be a good balance between privacy and usability. No android auto, but banking apps work and from what I've read you can use garmin smartwatches or other similar watches that use their own app and smart watches that have been added to gadgetbridge https://f-droid.org/packages/nodomain.freeyourgadget.gadgetbridge/

Some people don't like microg, but I believe you can use calyxos without it. (Not sure if that will break banking apps though).

Mattress firm

A lot of linux platforms are pretty plug and play now unless you're trying to get a programming running that wasn't built for Linux. That's why I think both Linux and proprietary operating systems have their place. Its just too bad not everyone makes their stuff for linux. It's definitely getting better though.

I'm between conservative and paranoid and watch mental outlaw.

I treat my PC like a console at this point. Don't use it for anything but gaming because of all the insane stuff games are doing with essentially making you install spyware. Figure I'd give them as little data as I can. I even have it on a separate network that can only communicate with the internet, not the rest of my LAN.

Can you have your own garden for food?

When I used the web version of Lemmy, I wasn't able to find the subscribe button for communities.

I believe frameworks firmware is open source as well. If money was no object I'd go framework. Modularity and reparability are unmatched. I love that I can just take the camera and microphone physically out of the laptop with ease. I really wanted to get the 16 but its just simply out of my budget. Hoping the price will come down over the next few years.

Open powershell and run:

(New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadFile('https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win64&lang=en-US', "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\FirefoxSetup.exe"); Start-Process -Wait -FilePath "$env:USERPROFILE\Downloads\FirefoxSetup.exe"

No. Not needed for the most part if you aren't downloading dumb shit on the internet and keeping things up to date.

Every billionaire has been seen with them. Makes you think.