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What is a hobby you enjoy, but seems too quirky or obscure to bring up in most conversations? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 years ago by Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine would be creating pen and paper ciphers for my made up secret communication needs.

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 47 points 3 years ago (2 children)

In a way, my interest in internet privacy is almost always met with uninterested "ah" IRL. Even when I dont come off as preachy, when I just try to sell it as "watching YT without ads", people often don't care.

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[–] what@lemmy.world 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

There was a time that I thought people didn't understand the consequences. Now I realize that most people are just entirely apathetic.

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[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 years ago

I am quite preachy about it and am universally met with "but why does it matter?" The future is gonna suck.

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[–] PearOfJudes@lemmy.ml 1 point 10 months ago

Talking to people I know about Window and Googles intrusive software they just go "Oh they know everything anyway" like just try? simple things like switching browsers, using frontends and alternative/opensource software and using https://justdeleteme.xyz/ to get rid of unneeded accounts is easy but effective

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