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De-Westernize your technology as much as possible. Consider going with Huawei or Xiaomi or OnePlus for phones (or stuff like laptops, which there's also Lenovo (seek out a model that is made to support Linux)), Aliexpress for shopping, and Huion for art-related hardware. China's always producing better and better shit, and they very well may extend their satellite mobile and (potentially) internet services to the global market. Keep in mind protectionism is escalating in the West, so expect interference and sabotage at some point.
Those who are on Windows and Mac, consider getting something really cheap like a raspberry pi or dual-booting a Linux distro and slowly developing the skillset to leverage it to your everyday needs, then start carrying your workflow over gradually until the other two are obsolete.
Especially keep an eye out for 100% indigenous Chinese technologies like CPUs, RAM, GPUs, etc etc. Shit the West can't backdoor in the production process because they have no control over it.
Those of us who are already here on Hexbear, which is basically reasonably sovereign territory not controlled by the CIA, are already in a much better position than fucking Reddit.
For videos, consider using something like https://www.bilibili.tv/en/ if you can't afford to host or trust any existing PeerTube instance. Odysee is technically an option too (based on the LBRY protocol, decentralized video hosting), but it's currently full (and I mean full) of chud content (and possibly nsfw shit).
For file hosting I highly recommend something like IPFS if you want to guarantee file authenticity and make it impossible for someone else to censor (you control when and for how long you host the file). IPFS has been used to host a copy of Wikipedia in the past (yes, can host static sites) when the Turkish government (I believe it was?) basically yeeted the site in an act of censorship. The latter is just an example, nobody should ever rely on NATOpedia for anything political or historical, at all.
Those of you who feel are lacking in technological warfare literacy, you can follow the news at https://www.eff.org/ to understand the trends the state has used and is using to undermine the proletariat.
The West wants to be able to easily rug pull you, so make it a big ass fucking chore for them to do so.
Do you have any experience with those? I was thinking of getting one of their Kamvas screen tablets on my next payday, probably the Pro 16 4K version.
I too encourage people to at least try out Linux in a VM for a few days. Modern distros are really not scary to approach, especially if you go for something like Mint which is aimed at individuals freshly migrating from Windows. EndeavourOS is also a good alternative if you want to lean into something Arch-based. Most things will either work or have alternatives that do. Your video games will work too, apart from certain multiplayer titles using specific implementations of anti-cheat. With Proton it's as easy as clicking play on Steam and letting it work its magic. Sometimes you need to tinker with launch settings, check the game's entry on ProtonDB, users post the settings that worked for them in the reports section. If you are willing to do some research and tinkering with protontricks and wine you can even get more complex things running, like heavily modded setups running through Mod Organizer.
Yes, sometimes things might break on you, especially if you use a rolling release distro. Fixing those issues is usually a matter of doing a few quick internet searches and following instructions. If you are willing to put up with it, those moments will end up boosting your learning process. In my case, using Linux also helped me build up my general IT skills quite a lot. I'll also give a shout-out to Linux Journey, it was recommended to me when I started using Linux and it is a solid resource.
Death to windows.
Not personally, but I've heard nothing but good things from friends who own tablets.