Privacy in the real world has less to do with buying fancy gadgets and more to do with habits and what kind of clothing you wear.

An few obvious suggestions are that you wear hats and sunglasses when outside, trucker hats are widespread and make you harder to identify, they're a good choice to obfuscate your face while not drawing too much attention, if you wear or use IR devices which will deliberately tamper or make identification harder you will draw a lot of attention, those should be reserved for riots or similar scenarios where confrontation is expected, not for daily use. Along with this suggestion comes another good one of avoiding "eye contact" with surveillance cameras; whenever you enter a public spaces and buildings or a big private business, always assume you're being surveilled, don't look for cameras because if you can see them clearly they can also see your face features, Luigi Mangione got easily identified because he did this exact mistake, multiple times, even though he did try to obfuscate his face.

On the corporates collecting your data to study your purchase habits you can always pay on cash and refuse to pay with a credit or debit card, or a phone, because they (both businesses and banks) will use those transactions to guess your income and how much you spend and where, never buy anything on a business that doesn't accept cash, even if they accept cryptos which I doubt you'll find any, always buy in cash. If a business such as a supermarket offers you discounts with a membership card you can try to cheat the system by providing fake names and identities if they ask for one, if they do not allow an anonymous member card then you can assume those discounts are being paid with your purchase habits and you're giving your consent if you accept them, so reject those discounts at all times if possible.

Another good suggestion and more on the hardcore side is to never, ever tattoo yourself, and if you have tattoos that are on visible places such as arms or legs consider covering them or ideally getting rid of them. Cops love tattoos, because they're akin to fingerprints that can be used to consistently identify people even if they cover their faces.

You make an excellent point. I don't suppose you can just buy glasses or hats with IR illuminators?

Best way to protest it is getting more people on i2p so the network becomes better and faster, get that i2p propaganda torrent and start spreading :]

99% sure that every user of i2p knows this, also this looks like a bot made it.

That sounds about right.

i believe similar laws are introduced only because the current parents are unable to limit their kids computer access. similar laws weren't needed in 90s because everyone's parent taken good care of their kids and limited how much screen time they had. Of Course there are some people who didn't have such parents but everywhere are exceptions. Just since parents don't have time to take care of their kids they just given up on actually parenting then politicians use similar laws as trojan horse to more censorship

heres the circle: corporations want more money so they raise the cost of their products(houses etc...) -> people want to buy such products but dont have enough money for it -> start working in multiple jobs -> not enough time to parent&raise kids -> politicians make laws that censor internet so kids stay safe(in theory) -> leads to censorship, abuse of power, then banning critics -> less regulation for companies passes because people dont know actual the truth -> more money for corporations -> time for another circle?

One thing that I would like to note is that the government(s) is largely content to watch unlawful behavior and do nothing. The law enforcement in one place I used to live used (likely and/or certainly) stingrays (probably) and radars (certainly) to watch people inside their homes. There were plenty of people they could have gone after for various offenses ranging from speeding to drug manufacture, but they rarely used their surveillance capabilities to do anything about those crimes.

In the US, the federal agencies have required the serialization of firearms, the registration of certain firearms, and also keep track of people's credit card purchase history of create a de-facto registry based on what bullets people buy. They would be hard pressed to do anything about firearm ownership in general in that part of the world, but they are keen on tracking what people have to make selective confiscation easier. They may not "come for your guns" unless you give them a reason, such as using medical marijuana or having PTSD. This would allow easing toward a Europe-style government control of all firearms and the death of any guarantee of freedom.

The age verification law in the UK is likely for the purpose of identifying opposition and using zersetzung-style tactics to cracking down on those who oppose them. http://wikiless.i2p/wiki/zersetzung?lang=en In the past they have been content to simply imprison those who organize the opposition.

These laws have nothing to do with protecting children.

It is 100% only about censorship and controlling what every person in a country can say online.

These laws need to be repealed and fought against by every human on earth, or there will be no country worth living in.

if anything, excuse my English, I'm not a native speaker

I'm too lazy to read this huge post, but in general, it's better for children (under 12) not to touch the Internet at all, let them hang out lol.

Cool! Have you tried other Linux distributions?

Made a damn account to say this but Android emulator. Use Android Studio I'm pretty sure nobody looks at this dnb of a forum doe

Buy a cheap prepaid sim?

I use linux mint 22

i saw online read only phone once, or VOIP swap number possibility. but maybe we can also share fake account. Would need some for a cloud GPU PAAS project using google collab as a showcase

Pretty sure you don't need a number when signing up on a chromebook, never tried it myself but heard of people buying cheap ones just to create gmails.

I forget what it is called, but AMD has their own version as well.

The management engine cannot be completely disabled in intel chips that ship with it because some of the things it handles are required for the chip to actually work. Really, you are better served by getting a chip without a management engine. Most AMD chips have their own version of the intel management engine, so they aren't safe. ARM boards are usually a little safer but not all. All of the Apple chips have a technology very similar to management engine built in. I don't know about the RISC-V boards but they are borderline trash so far anyway so they aren't a great escape route either.

Personally, I've been using older models allowing at least majority neutering of Intel management engine.

coreboot Thinkpads come to mind.

My personal machines are not the "full ME removal", but vast majority partitions, leaving just what is needed to bring up hardware.

Outside this, there are more "modern" options out there from companies, albeit not removed in same way (disabled under HAP bit and others). Some prefer Arm.

But everyone has a different use cases. I want to be able to use Qubes as an option at times, and some older models are not capable of this. T430 (i5-3320M and greater CPU) and later mostly have the right virtualization options for it.

I see UEFI / BIOS being #1 concern along with some network cards that work along with it. Some for AMT.

It is a shame there aren't more options out there.

I have heard about Intel putting backdoors in their chips. Is there a good alternative? The puri.sm librum computers theoretically wouldn't be safe, since I believe that they use intel chips.

Better time than ever for me to finally ditch my iPhone for a Librem 5, I guess.

I hope my guide helps you.

I Agree with you.

Or maybe they're the ones who have something to hide, lol.

That they do!