Privacy meme

I live between the tech conservative and tech paranoid with a splash of distro hopping.

I think we're all in between conservative and newborn paranoid ... for me, I love alpha/nightly, which LW doesn't have, so FF it is. But I cope by telling myself that a properly configured FF is just as good as LW. And Signal is better than needing to use WhatsApp with family members.
- Yeah, I guess so. The slippery slope is real though.

TempleOS is the one true legitimate operating system
- It is definitely one of the operating systems

I’m not sure I like being labeled “conservative”…
- Conservative doesn't mean braindead.
  It means keeping things the way they are. Like conserving the rain forest.
  
  Oh I know this in my head. It’s the negative connotation that’s in my heart that’s the problem.

Years ago, when Telegram was relatively fresh, I convinced most of my friends and acquaintances to use it. I don't know how I did it, but now that I want to get away from Telegram, I wish I could do it again.

The FSF member does not use libreboot anymore (not entirely free on some boards for a while now). See GNU Boot!
- GNU Boot is barely maintained. I would use Canoeboot instead, it follows the same philosophy GNU Boot does, and is way more up to date.
  
  Well in fact, that's not true they follow the same philosophy. See the GNU Boot talk at 38c3, but tldw is that canoeboot advocates for Libreboot and against RYF and so on. Btw, GNU Boot maintainers are quite active (see also the repo, I'm one of them).
  GNU Boot is not against canoeboot as such, but Leah Rowe hasn't the same philosophy (and does not follow FSDG)

Currently on a very locked down version of firefox but also windows, though I've been experimenting with mint on an old laptop in prepration for a switchover.
- It's nice to have an old laptop to try things out. Good luck with the switch!

Guilty of being Ricer. To answer the questionmakrs, I decided on Brave (again) recently, although in terms of theming, Firefox definitely offers more.

I'm the Tech Conservative with an iPhone, uses the Fedora Distro as my ride or die at the moment! I feel pretty balanced...Though, I do have a desire to hop to other distros for a while before going back to where it all started: Ubuntu. Ubuntu started my passion for Linux; opened my world to FOSS, issues with Privacy, and viewing most companies with neutrality, unless they've shown their dark side!
- Are you me? This is my tech journey also, including fedora on desktop and laptop, iPhone without any upgrades for last 3 years.
  
  I might be if you started on Android but then transitioned to iPhone 15+ and iOS after Google started to cram too much LLM Bullshit into Android. Otherwise, I had been a Windows person first, before I couldn't tolerate Microsoft's BS any longer. I should've left some more tech history in there, but this meme is certainly my current self!

I've been wanting to transfer my computer to Linux for years now, but I don't want all my mod lists to go up in flames
Besides that, I'm smack bang in newborn paranoid

Please don't misuse the term 'paranoid' like that. It's a medical term for a serious condition and we really don't need to start labeling ourselves like that, others already do that for us way too often.
- No, paranoia is not a medical term but also a word used to describe a feeling most humans get from time to time