I've not used credit since 1993, when I destroyed all my cards. I don't have any idea what my credit report says now, almost 30 years later, because I can't be assed to pull a credit report. I really don't care what is says, because I don't use credit, and don't intend to start using it.
I don't have a bank account. Can't find a good reason to keep one and let them make money off of MY money. I use cash for transactions, and if they ban that, then I'll start using barter more often.
At the last job I worked, we used Skype to communicate with colleagues around the world. Microsoft bought Skype, and the next thing you know, they force built Cortana into it, and there was no way to turn it off or remove it, so I stopped using Skype and told them if they wanted to communicate with me, they'd have to send an e-mail because I have a strong aversion to using or supporting spyware.
I have no "smart" devices in my house. I don't need a refrigerator that auto-orders cottage cheese. I have no "digital assistants" like Alexa. Don't need nor want any.
I don't live within line of sight of anything, which is why I get no cell signal here other than the one my repeater provides, and I control that. If I want it to go away, it's a simple matter to pull the plug.
Now here is an interesting thing. I have a gizzy that monitors RF transmissions at my house. Within the last week, I have noticed a new 5G signal. I am in the process of locating it to neutralize it. I don't have any need for 5G out here in the boonies, so it's going away as soon as I locate it. I have 3 wireless routers for internet, two of which were connected up until this evening. I disconnected one, the older one, to see if that is where the 5G signal is coming from. The 5G signal has the same SSID as that router, with "5G" appended to the end of it. If that is where it is coming from, that means someone purposely programmed it across the network to supply 5G, and that is a big fat no-go. My router, keep yer grubby mitts off of it. If that IS where it is coming from - which I will find out by isolating it - then I know how to de-program that crap right out of it. I only use that router for the printer anyhow. Everything else runs through the main router.
Another potential location is on a power pole. Some linemen were out here a couple of weeks ago appearing to inventory telephone poles. If I find 5G stations on them, they're gonna have to come out again and again to replace all of those within 500 meters of my house until they get tired of replacing them and leave me the hell alone.
That signal gizzy is an interesting bit of kit. It tells me what signals are running through my one and only body, what their SSID is, what their NID is, and how much power they are zapping me with. I'm not vaccinated, so if they ran a a signal out here to "activate" the graphene oxide, nice try suckers but no cigar. If you're gonna kill me, you're going to have to give it an up close and in person try, and that'll get ugly.
I store NOTHING in "the cloud", nor do I use any cloud based programs. The cloud is probably the most insecure means of storage ever devised by man, so I've never used it, and I like to have control over my own programs, so no cloud based programs, either. I suppose I could encrypt my data with my own layer of encryption before uploading it to the cloud so that I provide my own security for it and keep their grubby mitts out of it, but that's a lot of work to store data where someone else can control MY access to MY data.
I don't use Paypal - not because they track transactions, which they do - but because they were an early adopter of the "no firearms or parts" policy. If I can't use it for whatever I want, I'm not gonna use it at all. They don't get to tell me what I can and can't buy. They'll either provide me a service for whatever transactions I want, or they'll provide me no service at all, and I'll find an alternate means. Besides, I hear you have to have a credit card to use their service, and as I mentioned above, I have none.
I use an old operating system (Windows 7) and updates are no longer available for it, although it keeps popping up notifications that update ARE available. Security update I presume. But that doesn't matter, because I have auto update turned off for it so that they can't sneak in new programming as they may have done with that old router.
When I had my satellite TV system installed, they wanted me to connect it to the internet (for "pay per view", I reckon) and I said no. I wasn't born yesterday, and two-way communication across the internet means that "receiver" would actually be a transceiver, and could phone home. No thanks. They don't need to know anything other than that the bill is paid.
Oh my. I am a true Luddite, since I am not very well connected to the modern world at all. As it turns out, that may have been a good decision. If I'm not connected to them, then they aren't connected to me, either.
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I don't have a bank account. Can't find a good reason to keep one and let them make money off of MY money. I use cash for transactions, and if they ban that, then I'll start using barter more often.
At the last job I worked, we used Skype to communicate with colleagues around the world. Microsoft bought Skype, and the next thing you know, they force built Cortana into it, and there was no way to turn it off or remove it, so I stopped using Skype and told them if they wanted to communicate with me, they'd have to send an e-mail because I have a strong aversion to using or supporting spyware.
I have no "smart" devices in my house. I don't need a refrigerator that auto-orders cottage cheese. I have no "digital assistants" like Alexa. Don't need nor want any.
I don't live within line of sight of anything, which is why I get no cell signal here other than the one my repeater provides, and I control that. If I want it to go away, it's a simple matter to pull the plug.
Now here is an interesting thing. I have a gizzy that monitors RF transmissions at my house. Within the last week, I have noticed a new 5G signal. I am in the process of locating it to neutralize it. I don't have any need for 5G out here in the boonies, so it's going away as soon as I locate it. I have 3 wireless routers for internet, two of which were connected up until this evening. I disconnected one, the older one, to see if that is where the 5G signal is coming from. The 5G signal has the same SSID as that router, with "5G" appended to the end of it. If that is where it is coming from, that means someone purposely programmed it across the network to supply 5G, and that is a big fat no-go. My router, keep yer grubby mitts off of it. If that IS where it is coming from - which I will find out by isolating it - then I know how to de-program that crap right out of it. I only use that router for the printer anyhow. Everything else runs through the main router.
Another potential location is on a power pole. Some linemen were out here a couple of weeks ago appearing to inventory telephone poles. If I find 5G stations on them, they're gonna have to come out again and again to replace all of those within 500 meters of my house until they get tired of replacing them and leave me the hell alone.
That signal gizzy is an interesting bit of kit. It tells me what signals are running through my one and only body, what their SSID is, what their NID is, and how much power they are zapping me with. I'm not vaccinated, so if they ran a a signal out here to "activate" the graphene oxide, nice try suckers but no cigar. If you're gonna kill me, you're going to have to give it an up close and in person try, and that'll get ugly.
I store NOTHING in "the cloud", nor do I use any cloud based programs. The cloud is probably the most insecure means of storage ever devised by man, so I've never used it, and I like to have control over my own programs, so no cloud based programs, either. I suppose I could encrypt my data with my own layer of encryption before uploading it to the cloud so that I provide my own security for it and keep their grubby mitts out of it, but that's a lot of work to store data where someone else can control MY access to MY data.
I don't use Paypal - not because they track transactions, which they do - but because they were an early adopter of the "no firearms or parts" policy. If I can't use it for whatever I want, I'm not gonna use it at all. They don't get to tell me what I can and can't buy. They'll either provide me a service for whatever transactions I want, or they'll provide me no service at all, and I'll find an alternate means. Besides, I hear you have to have a credit card to use their service, and as I mentioned above, I have none.
I use an old operating system (Windows 7) and updates are no longer available for it, although it keeps popping up notifications that update ARE available. Security update I presume. But that doesn't matter, because I have auto update turned off for it so that they can't sneak in new programming as they may have done with that old router.
When I had my satellite TV system installed, they wanted me to connect it to the internet (for "pay per view", I reckon) and I said no. I wasn't born yesterday, and two-way communication across the internet means that "receiver" would actually be a transceiver, and could phone home. No thanks. They don't need to know anything other than that the bill is paid.
Oh my. I am a true Luddite, since I am not very well connected to the modern world at all. As it turns out, that may have been a good decision. If I'm not connected to them, then they aren't connected to me, either.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’