What’s the source of your distrust?

I think for me the answer is my family. More specifically, my brother when we were growing up. My mom and her sister were close and my aunt had 2 boys same ages as my brother and I. The older siblings would always mess with us youngsters. They’d prank us and push us around, make up stuff just to mess with us. This may have been the earliest source of my distrust - and the need to question. Later on my brother would lie to me about various things which made me distrust him even more. One particular time in high school (before I could drive - so this was probably 13-14yo), I was late for the school bus and couldn’t find my shoes. It was the only pair of shoes I had so I couldn’t go without them. I asked if he took them (he’d been known to wear my stuff before) and he swore he didn’t. I asked again several times what he did with them because I never misplaced my things, and once again he swore that he didn’t touch them. I didn’t buy it, so I went outside to look in his car and sure enough there they were. At this point I was already too late and wasn’t going to make it. I could see him having fun with this situation at my expense. This moment has never left my memory and may have been the catalyst for a strong sense of distrust in anyone.

Another great hack for saving money is realizing a $5,000 modern motorcycle will outperform nearly every sports car on the market.

What version of amethyst are you using?

I'm secretly hoping that the reason I keep seeing ads for HIV drugs and Alzheimer's drugs is a sign that I have sufficiently strong privacy practices.

When you’d rather not hear people praising a criminal, it’s best if you just add Assange to your filters and save yourself the trouble of listening to some truly out of touch posts. 🤣 #nostr

So, in lieu of an actual rebuttal, you send a meme. You must be a zoomer. 🤣

All the memes in the world aren’t going to change anything I said. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Well, if law enforcement needs access and you wipe it, you just caught yourself another charge, LMAO. Also, I don’t think cops will actually try and “coerce you” into entering your code, especially when they don’t have to.

This reads like fear mongering and describes situations only drug dealers and mob members would possibly find themselves in. And if that’s the case and you wipe your device, there’s no reason for them to keep you alive anymore. Didn’t think this one through very well.😂

Any way you slice it, this is a feature no one will ever need, like most features of graphene, if I’m being honest. Just another feature meant to prop up this idea that it’s the most secure OS on the market, which is obviously false.

So, I just learned that grapheneOS added an “under duress” safety mechanism. My first question would be, what kind of people are using grapheneOS that they would need such a feature?🤔😱

Basically, if you’re under duress to unlock your device, entering this code will actually wipe your device.

Surely I can’t be the only one who sees the major issue with this. What say you, #nostr? #asknostr

Google Maps is the one Google service I cant seem to escape on my degoogling journey. Yes, apps built on openstreetmaps can be a good alternative but the reviews data for things like restaurants and the fact that people will only share Google maps links these days when sharing locations makes it hard to escape.

#privacy #degoogle

Asking to not have my face scanned by TSA makes me feel like a criminal. Maybe it’s all in my head. Feels intentional for compliance.

I will continue to opt-out.

It should really be opt-in.

It really shouldn’t even be there.

Wrong. You don’t understand all of us at all. There’s a variety of information.

Politicians are scams. RFK is a Zionist SOB.

That’s not about bitcoin.

Really thought more bitcoiners would be interested in the guy who wants to put the pentagon budget on blockchain and let citizens audit them but maybe I’m wrong about that. I’m glad there’s one anti-war candidate

Though all soda is bad for your health, which one tastes the best in your opinion?

#askNostr