You pull money from an ATM which scans the serials and associates them with you. You spend that bill at a shop which brings them to the bank at the end of the day where the serial is collected. So there is the information that you visited a particular shop at a particular day and bought something there.

This can be crosscorrelated with information from a dozen other sources. That infomation will practically never be used to you advantage.

I am saying that cash payments are not significantly more private than bank card payments. What you do with that information is up to you.

You can also just access cell infra operator log. I can imagine they have a realtime API.

Cash isn’t private due to banknote serial scanning. Now we need a remixing service for physical cash.

For cryptocurrencies, look at Monero.

For starters, an economic and financial system not built on the fundament on permanent, exponential growth would be a good start. I am not aware of any of such efforts. Surplus Energy Economics is sometimes mentioning this, but nothing concrete.

Fortunately, you can punch them in the face to provide some badly needed attitude adjustment.

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This is not contradictory. The paper of this post finds positive forcing in the Northern Hemisphere from decreased aerosols, balanced in the short term by decreased forcing in the Southern Hemisphere due to increased aerosols, mainly from fires and the volcano. The effect of aerosols is larger in the Southern Hemisphere due to the air being cleaner. These forcings are according to the main models.

The observed albedo increase is still unexplained, they’ve just ruled out that it’s the expected result of known aerosol decreases as provided by current models.

Maybe they have the forcings wrong. Maybe the aerosol models are wrong. Maybe it’s the brief +AMOC bump inferred from Labrador Sea SSTs, which is now gone, and which was possibly due to increased AMOC varibility as we approach an AMOC collapse. Maybe it’s increased temperature->albedo feedback. Maybe it’s increased ENSO->albedo feedback with higher temperature. We have no idea what’s going on, and a lot of the possibilities are quite bad.

Sufficiently advanced automation is indistinguishable from consumers.

Only community open source efforts give you a fair chance of that.

You don’t say which modem you mean, but from context it seems to be xDSL. I’m running an own cable modem (Vodafone in Germany) which works a lot better than Vodafone’s own POS (which insists to reboot itself every day or two despite being in bridge mode). There is a thin client running opnsense behind it.

As to picking the smallest and lowest power, I think it is better to pick one that works best. When I used DSL I bought a cheap hackable DSL modem from an italian ISP and put OpenWRT on it. It also ran in bridge mode. It had an SFP slot which can come handy for galvanic separation, but I didn’t bother with it.

My account of 19 years got hacked, post history wiped and is now hawking crypto scams. I reported it to support, not that something has been done about it.

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I use my own DNS.

That’s why you should use a VPN or anonymizing traffic mixers.

You could buy a used Pixel, if you don’t want to support Google.

Na, 4K, even 1080p upscaled to 4K is significantly better thsn FullHD with a video projector.

You can use a pull-down screen attached to ceiling and a ceiling-mounted video projector. 4K is fine for that. I would not be able to tell the difference between 4K and 8K in such a setup.

I expect thorough review from a trusted repo, and verified signatures. You don’t really know what you get with Obtainium piping hot from GitHub.

GrapheneOS comes enirely Google free out of the box, including telemetry. It is also a reasonably secure mobile OS. You don’t get all that by just changing the launcher.

It’s about picking noncooperative jurisdictions.