Sounds like you had a frustrating experience. Sorry about that.

You can argue that data is toxic, and therefore minimizing its collection or having very transparent systems so that they are auditable can work.

Check out Bruce Schneier’s work on this.

A clear purpose and clear expectations help. It’s important to remember why using Linux is valuable. It’s what keeps us pushing through, even when it gets tough. It also helps to know that not everything will work right out of the box. And, to an extent, one can assume that that is the cost of using Linux.

One thing that inspires me is Snowden’s quote that says something like “We won’t win with features, but with ethical convictions”.

Now, as to what steps to take, focus on safe-to-fail experiments. Start by making relatively small changes, even within the Apple ecosystem:

• Safari to Firefox
• Pages / Word / Numbers / Excel to LibreOffice
• Photos to Ente or whatever you want to use

Once these changes are part of daily life, you can attempt a transition to Linux.

The idea here is to make change sustainable.

One possible factor is the fact that some people call it “convenience pricing”. That phrase is doing a lot of psychological work. If we called it something like “surveillance pricing” or “extractive pricing”, then maybe we would be closer to outrage.

Some of you will not like this, but I have read the tarot to dozens of people and I don’t believe in it at all. I first read it and then tell them I don’t believe in it at all and I just had a non-magical, human-to-human conversation.

The online courses are going to scam you in the same way that pro tarot readers scam people. Cut the middleman. Read the tarot directly. Don’t charge for it. Don’t scam people. Give advice for free.

If you want to charge for advice, go to actually scientific stuff like evidence-based psychology or evidence-based counseling.

In classical economics, it also means capitalists stop investing in extra production. I see this as something that would contribute to reducing CO2 emissions.

For what it’s worth, I recently learned about 4C/ID. I’m hoping I can adapt it to autodidactism.

Hm. I don’t really get what you’re saying. So that I can understand you, could you explain it?