I have no idea what anyone should be doing, but I'll tell you what I personally am doing:

• emailing my representatives over and over
• emptied all cloud services and all personal big tech accounts (can't do much about the work ones..)
• getting acquainted with Linux, VPNs and Tor
• learning to flash custom ROMs
• testing said custom ROMs
• digging into app permissions - even graphene comes with things enabled that I realized I want to turn off (like ad privacy, printer services and android services that enable nearby share which I personally don't use)
• use Obtainium and F-droid for apps
• testing out p2p services to see which ones are useful
• stashing Linux isos, so I hopefully always have at least one that either doesn't have age verification or one where it's easy enough to rip out
• downloaded "linux from scratch", but I'll admit I haven't read it yet

I thought we were supposed to stop caring about the environment now because data centers are the current priority

/s

Not just influencers, but also politicians and news media. I have a master's degree in statistics, and it's not at all uncommon for politicians and media to misrepresent scientific results. Correlation does not equal causation. If a study hasn't been peer reviewed, I wouldn't say that it proves anything just yet. Studies on a non-representative sample aren't generalizeable to the population as a whole. And so on..

'm not in the Epstein files

I have actually been looking for something like this, look forward to giving it a go!

I'd rather accidentally stumple onto pain olympics or lemon party than accidentally stumble into a black mirror episode

If anyone irl asks, I'm "trying to learn how to use Linux". Which is technically true, I still learn new things all the time!

I already saw this Black Mirror episode

Gotta love it when people who have no understanding of how Linux works writes laws about how Linux should work...

The meaning of life is listening to groovy basslines on the way to and from work. And hugging your loved ones.

Don't let anything distract you from that.

I haven't had any issues with my nvidia GPU. I did some distro-hopping and didn't have any nvidia issues in any of the distros I tried.

If you want everything to work out of the box, I would recommend Bazzite. Pop! OS had me using the AMD image and fetching the nvidia driver manually (the nvidia image just didn't work for me). After that, everything worked brilliantly.

God, I feel that!

My mother was scared that anything I liked might be harmful, so getting her to let me enjoy my games and music in peace felt like a win. She wouldn't feign any sort of interest, so if she asked a question you knew it was a threat.

In fact, I was almost 30 the first time either of my parents asked a genuine question about my favourite game of all time (that I spent literally thousands of hours playing). I was almost too shocked to answer.

I mean, I get that kid's stuff is boring, but I feel like if you can't take some kind of interest in your kids you shouldn't have any.

Rant over. Sorry, I just wanted to say that you're not alone!