Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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Carry a pocket knife and taser just in case 😎
yep.
but... even better, use do not disturb and mute, reduce number of apps and number of notifications, keep phone in pocket, learn not to whip out the phone unless actually necessary.
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This is the smartest watch I own


What is with the mechanical watch, genuine question?
I guess he got ahead of himself there. As long as the watch is not programmable with alarms or internet connected even, I don't see why the difference between mechanical or digital would matter.
I remember 30 years ago we would go camping with kids and not using watches was a thing. For the kids out there: mobile phones were not invented yet.
I just prefer a mechanical watch. More analog soul.
It’s just completely analog way to track the time.
I've got a kinetic watch. It's lasted decades.
Thanks, I appreciate your spirit. I am looking into it. I feel it would be good if there were some technically superior but aesthetically basic options.
Seiko makes great stuff. Or Casio if you want to go digital.
Even quartz watches tell time mechanically. Early quartz watches you could hear. Then they bumped the frequency high enough that only bats can hear it.
Cash as in the fiat kind?
Yeah. What other kind is there?
Haven’t you heard of ecash bro??
ops unironically
How about an opendime or a brain wallet?
What is “cash” and why is Wad carrying it?😅

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"I do a great impression of a hot dog!" 😂
Can I smoke weed first?
The simple analogue untrackable life!
I do this almost 5 days now.. so much peace.
Also, use a fountain pen to take notes.
People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").
Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.
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"That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera" ☠️
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Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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Be the grey man.
what do I need a watch for?
Or what does it matter if the watch is mechanical or digital for that matter?
To understand how much time you have before dark if you happen to be in the forest & the sun is shaded out.
Or if you're going to be meeting someone at a certain time & don't feel like asking others around you.
but no #nostr sir
Going to integrate this into my life 🤙
Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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I do this every weekend but I also wear a bitcoin ring
leave your 12 words at home
No. Don't keep seed words at your house.
H/T @DETERMINISTIC OPTIMISM 🌞
Seiko SRPE93 Prospex SEA - The Turtle. 😄
Seiko SRPE93 Prospex SEA
Great watch
Good advice.
Me likey.
#GrapheneOS on a pixel phone is what you want.
But through phone they still know your location, sending signal to the nearest towel
You know what time it is 👻🤙
marin instruments 

Good looking piece
🙏🙏🙏
The little things in life 💜
beautiful watch. which brand?
People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.
Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").
Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.
Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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What if there's emergency something like car accidents. I need to make phone calls for the ambulance to save someone's life, the place I live people won't help, they make situation worst.
We don't know what trouble we get into, do you have alternative for these situations.
Não sei se é o #Snowden de verdade, mas independente disso, gostei bastante do texto. Profilaxia básica com #segurança de dados no geral e #privacidade já garante proteção real contra vigilância passiva, coleta e armazenamento de dados automática. Dificultar isso é fazer mais que a maioria da população, você ainda é um alvo, mas vigilância ativa (dirigida) é mais onerosa, e as precauções especiais ("paranoia extra") não são necessárias para o perfil de risco da maioria.
Não precisa usar OpenBSD, mas uma distribuição #Linux como o Mint é tão amigável ao usuário quanto possível, e diferente do Windows, não vem com spyware e rootkits de fábrica (nome social: "telemetria")
Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.
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analog car, no GPS, no sensors, NO seat belt alarm

