‘Them’ is a queer website. Mass/covert surveillance is relevant to queer people as the current state of things is to track, harass and kill queer people. The ‘dystopian nightmare’ has more hostile to minority populations and often has been. It is broadly harmful now to the general population, yes. [“Is this your first time?” meme insert here]

Right!!! We paid EXTRA for the disc drive for physical media!

Yes you may suggest! I’ve been vaguely glancing at the Fairphone with e/os from time to time, to keep in mind for the future.

Graphene was my introduction to degoogling and I chose it because I was already familiar with the Pixel. Also that I had no idea what I was doing and their articles are clear to read. I did find it silly that I needed Google hardware but I just bought it secondhand instead of new/full price for ‘do evil’ Google profit.