> It's true but it's really hard to find non smart devices though. What if you could make the device not so smart if you want? Physical kill switches are ideal

> It's true but it's really hard to find non smart devices though. What if you could make the device not so smart if you want? Physical kill switches are ideal here, but if such lack then a software switch to turn radio off or on helps. I use an e-reader without cloud. I use USB-C to get my e-books on it. I keep WLAN off. If I want it on, I need to enable hotspot on my smartphone in order for it to connect to the internet. And yet for some reason it has a microphone. I have some CM4 without BT and WLAN because I don't need the feature. But I do use ethernet on it (via its host). I also have an Analogue Pocket. It has a microSD with all kind of games on it (I already gave away my physical cardridges long ago, and I am not going to run around with such or have such in storage). For connectivity it only sports USB-C. But that device is a FPGA for running older games. I think the point is that if you want to use less smart / connected devices (with less profiling, advertising, connectivity) you need to be prepared to shell out money for dedicated hardware and sacrifice some convenience.