Skills/Benefits Gained from Embracing Online Privacy

For me it got me back into technology again. Over the last decade the mentality has been technology is now a hostile force that’s becoming more and more of a detriment as every major digital service is now just rent seeking. Having to move off Windows and learn about Linux did recapture some childhood nostalgia of learning about computers and tech as it becomes more DIY as you leave the walled garden of SaaS trash. I’m actually doing things I got bored of long ago; like keeping up with emerging tech, PC building (even if I’m limiting myself due to this AI mess), and actually enjoy using a computer again. In the 90s there was a way more techno optimistic sub culture of people who say tech and hacking as a means of self expression, and I genuinely want to hearken back to that without the naivety of that era.