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I already had a whole paragraph, which I'll reprint for you here: > "Going outside for a day and leaving the phone fully off in the back of a drawer is good fu
by sourcepluck 2y ago
I already had a whole paragraph, which I'll reprint for you here:
> "Going outside for a day and leaving the phone fully off in the back of a drawer is good fun for the whole family, and can be done. Getting Tails onto a USB stick is easy for many and even fun for some, and you can make copies for your friends. Getting that old brick phone out of the other drawer, getting the old charger for it, and taking that out sometimes when you only need calls, can be good fun too."
I could have continued with loads more small things "ordinary people" can do:
- use F-droid totally, or as much as possible, instead of the "Play Store"
- if you manage to stop using the Play Store entirely, sign out of Google entirely on your phone, nothing bad actually happens when you do
- delete Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, etc etc
- have boardgame night with friends, and have a "phone-box" ready, with rules, fully off, it goes in the back of a closet for 3hrs
- buying a little standalone mp3 player for offline walkies with your dog (or lover)
- use ebooks and such on airplane mode, getting books onto them by other means
Etc etc. The point isn't that everyone wants to do these things, the point is they're easy, and mostly a good laugh, and every little helps in the fight back against the normalisation of constant surveillance. So why would we ever tell anyone, "oh, it's pointless, do nothing"?