Besides the point but are you able to get around it with internet archive?

Yeah it had other stuff that probably is not in his books (for now) like digital preparedness and OPSEC practices. Haven’t read his books yet but I plan to at some point

If there is I would love to know. They’re all off his site and SoundCloud.

I actually combine a password manager with a password book, don’t like storing data for sensitive accounts on servers that can be breached and I’m too lazy to self host 😬 and I can remember my password phrases for sensitive accounts I use normally.

Did you download his podcast? As far as I know he deleted all his stuff several months ago.

You might be able to get a large part of google functionality with a degoogled device running microG or something similar.

I grabbed a display TV and haven’t hooked it up to the internet, so far so good. Could look into that.

I know some folks who have problems running onlyoffice- apparently LibreOffice is the fork/spiritual successor to it. Haven’t used it a lot but so far it’s run decently.

I like guerrilla mail (short term email generation) but I’ve found that a lot of their domains are blocked by these sites I’m trying to sign up for >:(

I also second this, has basic smartwatch features and if you want to get in the weeds and install your own OS just get the developer kit. For 30 bucks I said it’s worth a test at least.

Not sure what difference that makes since the military uses the MS office suite for everything

Bitwarden has a password generator that you can set criteria for, been really helpful with one of my janky logins

You mean PicardManeuver has a life.

He gets some hate but Rob Braxman on YouTube/Odyssey was one of my gateway drugs into the privacy community. He is kind of obnoxious at times but lays out a lot of technical and basic advice pretty well I think. Learned about degoogled phones and Bluetooth risks from him as a couple of examples. I also second Luis Rossman on YouTube/Grayjay, he’s more on the philosophical and legal side of things.

I know Cal Newport of Deep Work fame espouses this idea, and I think he mentioned that Hemingway or some such writer also used this idea. Stop halfway in the middle of an idea or project at the end of the day so you can pick it up the next day easy.

Same, I like the guarantee of when I buy something, I own it. Years down the line if something happens to some servers outside of my control, assuming I keep the content on a hard drive somewhere, I’ll still have it.

That’s frustrating. Here’s to hoping someone will come up with a FOSS solution.

Pretty sure Fdroid has a basic messaging app or two that might fit the bill so you don’t have to use google.

I did get BG1&2 for six dollars total on GOG, so I’ll be trying those out in the meantime. When I really got into the genre was Pillars of Eternity and Tyranny.

I haven’t bought it yet because I’m poor. Most of my games I buy on sale for under $20