A while ago I reached a point in my privacy journey where I simply felt bored. It’s not a result of going too far in privacy, but simply my threat model has caused me to let go of a lot of things that used to entertain me (games, movie streaming, short form video, etc.) The entertainment landscape in privacy seems pretty bleak, since you no longer own the movies you watch, the games you play, and lots of proprietary software along the way. I entertain myself through FreeTube, physical copies of movies, and offline installations of games like Minecraft, but it’s still a step down from how it used to be.
What do you do to keep yourselves entertained in a privacy conscious way?
You could try jacking off
To porn that you have painted yourself ahead of time.
Paint me like one of your French girls, Jack
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Never mind the security cameras, and the drones, and the smartphones, and the satellites…
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Where I live, there are security cameras all over the buildings and the lamposts and the traffic intersections and the parking lots, plus Ring/Nest doorbells everywhere. There are more cameras outside the buildings than inside. Everybody is carrying a smartphone and I see people taking pictures or video with them all the time.
Drones and satellites are really only outside.
So I don’t agree with your conclusion.
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Buy a book with cash. Read the book.
The entertainment landscape in privacy seems pretty bleak, since you no longer own the movies you watch
It’s the other way around.
They have cameras in the bookstores with facial recognition
Who does?
Personally I haven’t really changed anything about my entertainment other than how I attain it. Torrented movies, shows, and books, cracked games, and ad+sponsor blocked YT via Piped mean I get all the same entertainment as ever if not more (plus I actually own it forever). The only thing I’ll admit I miss a bit is Reddit.
Board games with friends and family. My brother rotates hosting board game night with his friends and it’s great fun.
“Shorts” rot your brain like maggots. They are like smoking nicotine. You are probably suffering from withdraw of domine.
I think it is healthy to not be constantly entertained. Go outside and be in nature for a while. Maybe you could even meet someone new.
You can own movies by pirating them. same goes for games etc
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When people get games from e.g. fitgirl-repacks, do they play them offline? (just curious, I don’t play games)
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You’re missing a pretty key fact; any good repack is going to disable everything trying to connect outwards. Otherwise the methods for pirating that content will be easier to detect and block.
It’s also really easy to just check for yourself when a program is phoning home. https://superuser.com/questions/99039/any-good-utility-to-track-outgoing-traffic-and-requests-from-win-pc
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Pirate movies, shows, and music.
That and I play old games. SMB 2 rn.
Cycling is amazing if there are good roads that aren’t much traveled around your area and check your local arthouse cinema, they even still might have paper tickets 😸
Anything that doesn’t require high tech still works really well. Don’t need to worry about tracking software that tries to sell you something with say a horse or two. And as a bonus you get lots of physical activity as well which is healthy.
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Minetest in creative mode with Radio Free Fedi’s comfy channel playing in the background 🤌
You can make your own open-source games, it’s pretty fun. And of course there are loads of games that have no telemetry what so ever.
“Holy shit this guy programs games to play them what a chad.” - MigratingtoLemmy
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Short videos are hosted by very invasive companies and don’t have any APIs or anything to make custom privacy-friendly frontends so it’s out of the question (fortunately imo because that things are addictive and can degrade a person in months).
If you view tiktok content thru ProxiTok, it fails to be addictive because things like autoplay and recommendations are disabled.
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since there’s pretty much no useful content on TikTok
Just like any other major social platform, it has been used to pretty good effect in organizing protests against various issues. https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/14/starbucks-why-everyone-boycotting-controversies-explained/71885557007/
I don’t personally use it though. Too scared i wont be able to put it down.
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I read books. I tinker.
Motorcycling. Nearly all modern bikes have no ability to touch the internet, so you can get into a really fun hobby with practical benefits without being spied on.
