You forgot "Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad" on tech paranoid

Brave being listed alongside Firefox

Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It's not a better alternative to Chrome, it's just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.

I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:

"Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil"
"Doesn't morally support big tech, but uses some anyway"

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I'm probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.

🏳️‍⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️‍⚧️

For fellow paranoids:

Mullvad browser is a fairly new Firefox fork which aims to reduce fingerprinting potential while also having sane (paranoid) defaults. Developed with the Tor project. Basically the Tor browser but without connecting to the Tor network. Passes coveryourtracks.eff.org.

SimpleX Chat is a fairly new privacy oriented IM platform which seems to address many issues current ones have. Development is very active. E2E, video and voice calls, decentralized, doesn’t have user ID of any kind.

What does MKBHD have to do with this? He's just a tech reviewer who kinda fits between tech normie and tech conservative

What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?

I'm a tech conservative?

Conservative is the wrong word there

The fact that the favorite OS of the tech conservative is an Arch based distro and and a Debian based distro instead of pure Arch or Debian makes this meme inaccurate.

Tech paranoid all the way, although not the same type of tech paranoid as Luke Smith. The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them). Thinkpads are just another brand of overpriced laptop. Besides the occasional steam game, I heavily prefer FOSS only and will flat out refuse almost anything that has drm. My unlocked bootloader android phone is so heavily locked down with privacy stuff that I cause Google to lose money merely by existing.

I fit somewhere between normie and conservative. Philosophically, I agree with the tech conservative, but I also have shit to do and when FOSS gets in my way, it's hard to justify it.

I use Firefox because it was an easy switch.

I used Signal until they killed sms support. Sorry, most of the people I know use a default messages app. And the day I force everyone I know to use Signal is the day they stop talking to me.

I dabble in Linux, but I main Windows because I'm not a programmer or IT admin. I know how to use it, for better or worse, and I don't have to memorize terminal commands to perform even basic tasks. Sure, gaming is getting better on linux, but it's still a compromised experience and I still, to this day, have to look up tutorials and terminal command every time I try to do anything on my Linux box.

But...wherever possible, I use FOSS software.

I like to call it the tech pragmatist. I agree with the conservative, but I'm not that smart and I got shit to do.

"I can't live with modern tech anymore"

uses modern tech

A truly paranoid individual unplugs every piece of technology and uses nothing with screens, buttons or electricity going through it.

i am litterally a 100% match with conservative wtf did you hack me (except I use XMPP for phone service, JMP.Chat is an amazing thing!)

I'm in the last column with the exception of thinking RMS is a misogynistic transphobe asshole

Wish I could just ditch Windows and Whatsapp for something else....... I've tried Linux but every time I quickly wanted to do something it first took me 30/40 minutes to get it working :⁠'⁠( was driving me insane after the cool factor of daily driving Linux went away

I'm a software engineer that uses windows and firefox, has no social media accounts (minus message boards), and owns a google pixel. Be confused. You can't stop me.

I run arch, have the latest iphone, watch MKBHD, amd use tor… so…. yeah i dunno

Tech normie also uses VS Code as a text editor sending data to Microsoft & using proprietary plugins.

I dislike this meme, it's inaccurate

I'm between conservative and paranoid and watch mental outlaw.

I watched one HTML video 5 years ago, and now I'm using a De-Googled phone, Linux, and get a more paranoid than I should when I see and Echo Dot. This is not what I signed up for...