I have a significant number of very technically advanced friends (due to previous jobs). The exact type you'd think would care about this. They couldn't care le

I have a significant number of very technically advanced friends (due to previous jobs). The exact type you'd think would care about this. They couldn't care less if they tried. Somehow, at some point, the "geeks" just decided that unless you're a blackhat, or buying/selling drugs online, or into some underground scene where you specifically are trying to circumvent the authorities, then it just doesn't matter. They all use Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, etc etc, while decrying the "evil" of China. I'm not sure when or how the shift happened, but the same friends I use to sit on IRC with and rant about open source, privacy, and the important of encryption, have all just... given up. I've been fighting for and preaching the importance of privacy my entire life, and my dad was a life-long activist (physically, too) for human rights, so I've been exposed to "the fight" since before I was born, and for the first time ever, I'm starting to feel like I should just give up, make an FB account, shut down my Pi-Hole/OpenVPN, and just "wait to die" as they say. It's a bloody depressing era. I want to wake up.