I understand that, but if a hacker gets into your PC or someone takes it from you while it is logged in then that is like someone walking into your house and seeing you naked because the door has to be unlocked to get in the house.

Drive encryption is only one step towards a peivate and secure system. You can choose a middle ground such as limiting logs to 3 days if you prefer.

You don’t have to. You can use someone elses instance, just as you are on Lemmy. If the instance you pick goes to shit then you can move to another one.

That is what I mean. If an open source project enshittifies, it can be forked.

Stoat is self hostable like Lemmy so it is enshittification proof.

That’s a centralised platform. You should move to Stoat and Matrix instead.

I think you are right. My post is simply a PSA to let people know that clicking forget on a Wi-Fi network or uninstalling a Flatpak does not remove all traces.

My scenario is also not specifically crafted; it is what happened to Ross Ulbricht.

The problem with logs is that drive encryption is uselss in a Ross Ulbricht like situation where someone takes your laptop while ut is unlocked.

Drive encryption is useless if your laptop is taken while unlocked. Learn from Ross Ulbricht.

If someone takes your laptop while it is unlocked rhey can see the logs. It is dangerous to keep them on if you are somewhere like China and use your laptop in a public space.

I have only posted it twice. If you’ve seen it multiple times that’s either because you’ve scrolled to the same point in your feed or there are repost bots around.

It is not. Linux distros log a lot of things or of the box and if your laptop gets seized while logged in then they can be accessed.

That is the point. I know it doesn’t read very well but I wrote it as most people don’t know what their PC is secretly recording.

They turn off file history in the DE settings and always use incognito mode so they think their PC is amnesic except for the files they explicitly save, however it is not.

If a Cellebrite can dump the storage of a locked iPhone, intelligence agencies almost certainly can grab your logs.

It could be the mail alias. Most platforms have rules against disposable email addresses.

Make sure you have shields on standard.

It is possible to be private without being suspicious by using a stock Firefox or Brave profile on mobile data.

I think the answer is AV1. You can get good quality video into 500 NB per hour which is easily affordable with unobtrusive ads like a banner at the bottom of the app and a video ad that can be swapped away every 10 videos.

You probably used a VPN or privacy browser. Social media platforms are terrified of bots and will punish a poor Recaptcha V3 or similar score without telling you.

You can turn off the fingerprint protection in the Librewolf tab of the settings page.

Install uBlock Origin and disable any others then the ad blocker problem will be solved.

As for other things, look for backups. If DDG shuts down, search up alternatives. If piefed.social shuts down, find another instance, and do on.

The problem with the internet is not the internet itself, but the big tech platforms.

By using sites like Mastodon and Lemmy, using a browser with uBlock Origin installed, and disabling Web & App activity, personalised ads, etc on your phone, you are taking a stand, and routing around the bad stuff exactly as intended.