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A digital privacy blog for non-tech users and parents

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2026 20

  1. Why Is It So Difficult To Build an Alternative Operating System for a Smartphone?
  2. Setting up Tuta Mail & Nextcloud Integration in Simple Steps
  3. #easy
  4. Check You Can Restore Your Nextcloud Server from a Saved Disk Image
  5. #server
  6. What Is Obtainium?
  7. The Joy of Working with Text Interfaces
  8. It's OK to Take a Break from Thinking About Digital Privacy
  9. Why I Use Uruky, a Private Search Engine
  10. Privacy Tool Recommendations Should Come with Caveats
  11. #other
  12. Interview with the Engineer of Uruky, a Private Search Engine
  13. Droidian, an Awesome Phone OS for Patient People [by The Privacy Child]
  14. Connecting your Wallet to a Monero Node on your Local Network
  15. A First Look at the EU Age Verification App
  16. Using Android Without a Google Account in 2026
  17. The Best Version of "I Have Nothing to Hide"
  18. I Have Nothing but Red Herring to Hide
  19. Ente Photos, a Privacy-first Photo App
  20. Ready for 2026!

2025 15

  1. My Teenager's Review of Ente's Privacy Photo App
  2. For the GrapheneOS Crowd: The Options in Burger Town
  3. Using Droidian on a Google Pixel 3AXL Phone
  4. Using Ubuntu Touch on a Pixel 3A Phone
  5. Can Teenagers Manage Their Own Screen Time?
  6. #parentalcontrols
  7. Three Tips for Parents to Help your Child with Screen Management and Online Safety
  8. Digital Minimalism: Using One Device for Everything
  9. Privacy Tools vs Online Child Exploitation and Abuse
  10. How Parent Chat Groups May Help Reduce Pressure to Buy a Smartphone for Your Child
  11. Installing Whoogle on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in 2025
  12. Why the Term 'Metadata' Is not Helpful in Discussions Around Privacy
  13. What is Behavioural Surplus?
  14. On Writing The Privacy Dad Blog
  15. Paying for Mullvad VPN Anonymously with Monero

2024 23

  1. What's It Like Using CalyxOS Every Day?
  2. DeGoogle a Smartphone with CalyxOS in under 30 minutes
  3. Trying out /e/OS with Easy Installer on a Fairphone
  4. PostmarketOS(Phosh) on the PinePhone in 2024
  5. Ubuntu on a Windows Surface Go 3
  6. Using Android Without a Google Account
  7. Ten Open Source RSS News Readers for Smartphones
  8. On Giving Light Phone my Contacts List
  9. #featurephone
  10. Compartmentalisation with Dedicated Devices
  11. #refurbished
  12. From Windows to Pop!_OS
  13. Taking Control with Bodhi Linux
  14. Punkt. MP02 as a Feature Phone for Kids
  15. Kieran Setiya on Projects and Processes
  16. What Is the Cloud?
  17. Parents: Are Your Kids Backing up Their Data?
  18. Why I'm Sticking with Standard Notes
  19. My Family Nextcloud Server
  20. Final Decision on Chromebook Case in Denmark
  21. How Can I Use Monero in Day-to-Day Situations?
  22. Running a Whoogle Instance on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W
  23. Mining Monero

2023 68

  1. Discovering Monero
  2. What is a GUI?
  3. Basic Linux Commands: ls, pwd, cd
  4. Private and Secure Journaling with VeraCrypt
  5. My Remaining Social Media Accounts
  6. Thirteen Months of The Privacy Dad
  7. Privacy for Students on a Budget
  8. Is Human Psychology Monero's Achilles' Heel?
  9. Trying Out the PinePhone in 2023
  10. Jesper Graugaard's Fight Against Chromebooks in Danish Schools (2/2)
  11. The Problem with Education as a Solution for Digital Privacy and Security
  12. #education
  13. Jesper Graugaard's Fight Against Chromebooks in Danish Schools (1/2)
  14. Quitting Instagram
  15. Next-gen Smart Glasses Are a Test of Privacy as a Social Value
  16. Manage your Ebook Library with Calibre
  17. Speaking Up at Parent Meetings
  18. An Argument for Using Schools in the Fight for Digital Privacy
  19. Why my Friend Quit Tuta Mail
  20. Privacy Tools Are Not Worth the Hassle
  21. Kids & Screens: Yes, No, Maybe
  22. So What if Google Sends me Targeted Ads?
  23. Starting Your Own Blog, Privately
  24. From Goodreads to The StoryGraph
  25. Conversations with an IT Security Expert
  26. From LastPass to KeePass
  27. The Best Blogging Platform for Students
  28. Tinkering with Hardware
  29. Onboarding III: Conversations
  30. Buying a Set of Precision Tools
  31. Using Multiple Email Accounts for Privacy
  32. Kids & Screens: Questions for Students, Teachers and Parents
  33. Dual Booting on the ThinkPad T440p
  34. What Is a VPN?
  35. MoneroTopia 2023 Review
  36. Using Clonezilla
  37. Onboarding II: Between Minimalism and Privacy
  38. On EU Approval of MiCA and Transfer of Funds Regulations
  39. Research and Reading I (post #50!)
  40. Kids & Screens: Should I Raise Privacy Concerns with the School?
  41. Onboarding I: Digital Privacy Tools
  42. Using Separate Work and Personal Devices
  43. The Privacy Dad Guest on MoneroTopia Episode #109
  44. Books That Have Inspired Me
  45. Light Phone 2 Review
  46. In Between Operating Systems
  47. In Between Projects
  48. Control Your Own Content with RSS and AntennaPod
  49. #antennapod
  50. Ergonomics
  51. Kids & Screens: Safeguarding Discussions
  52. When Things Go Wrong
  53. #admin
  54. Building My First Server
  55. Kids & Screens: Can I Have a Youtube Channel?
  56. What Is an IP Address?
  57. Linux on Old Devices
  58. Why I Still Use Reddit
  59. Managing Your Own Disk Drives
  60. Obsessing over Privacy
  61. Kids & Screens: An Argument for Video Games
  62. A Conversation with ChatGPT about the Future of Online Privacy
  63. Exploring Social Media Alternatives: Pixelfed and Odysee
  64. What Is an Administrator?
  65. Overcoming Minor Hurdles with LibreOffice Writer
  66. Kids & Screens: Parental Controls or Shared Admin Rights?
  67. From Evernote to Standard Notes
  68. Can I Keep a Digital Journal?

2022 21

  1. What Is Big Tech?
  2. Kids & Screens: What is the Right Age for a Smartphone?
  3. A List of Apps and Software that I Use
  4. Kids & Screens: Feature Phones for Children
  5. A Case for Desktop
  6. My Experience with the Nokia 8110 Dumbphone and KaiOS
  7. From WhatsApp to Signal
  8. Kids & Screens: The Morning On/Morning Off Rule
  9. Special Post: Honest Feedback from the Oldest Child
  10. De-Googling Your Smartphone (as a beginner)
  11. The Compromise of Cloud Storage
  12. More Private Internet Browsing with Firefox and DuckDuckGo
  13. What Is Your ISP?
  14. Reducing the Number of Apps on Your Smartphone
  15. Kids & Screens: (Used) Laptops, Linux, LibreOffice
  16. What is Digital Privacy?
  17. Moving from Gmail to Tuta Mail
  18. Kids & Screens: One Simple Rule
  19. Keeping Your Smartphone Out of the Bedroom
  20. Why I started Paying for Apps, Platforms and Services
  21. Deleting my Facebook Account

Undated 172

  1. #potofhoney
  2. #I-have-nothing-to-hide
  3. #Uruky
  4. #addiction
  5. #ageverification
  6. #ai
  7. #aliases
  8. #alternatives
  9. #android
  10. #antix
  11. #apps
  12. #arguments
  13. #aurora
  14. #author
  15. #backup
  16. #backups
  17. #bearblog
  18. #bigtech
  19. #bitwarden
  20. #blogging
  21. #books
  22. #cakewallet
  23. #calibre
  24. #calyxos
  25. #challenging
  26. #chromebook
  27. #clonezilla
  28. #cloud
  29. #commands
  30. #compartmentalisation
  31. #conversations
  32. #crime
  33. #crypto
  34. #customrom
  35. #data
  36. #dataprivacy
  37. #debate
  38. #degoogle
  39. #denmark
  40. #desktop
  41. #digitalminimalism
  42. #digitalprivacy
  43. #discussion
  44. #docker
  45. #droidian
  46. #duckduckgo
  47. #dumbphone
  48. #email
  49. #encryption
  50. #ente
  51. #eos
  52. #ergonomics
  53. #eu
  54. #expertise
  55. #exploitation
  56. #facebook
  57. #fdroid
  58. #firefox
  59. #foss
  60. #glossary
  61. #gpt-3
  62. #grapheneos
  63. #gui
  64. #guide
  65. #harddisks
  66. #hardware
  67. #health
  68. #image
  69. #instagram
  70. #intermediate
  71. #interview
  72. #ipaddress
  73. #isp
  74. #journal
  75. #journey
  76. #keepass
  77. #kidsandscreens
  78. #laptops
  79. #libreoffice
  80. #lightphone
  81. #linmob
  82. #linux
  83. #listed
  84. #logic
  85. #markdown
  86. #medium
  87. #mentalhealth
  88. #meta
  89. #metadata
  90. #mining
  91. #mobile
  92. #monero
  93. #monerotopia
  94. #monerotopia2023
  95. #mullvad
  96. #news
  97. #nextcloud
  98. #nokia
  99. #notesnook
  100. #nothingtohide
  101. #obtainium
  102. #odysee
  103. #onboarding
  104. #open source
  105. #opinion
  106. #orwell
  107. #parenting
  108. #password
  109. #pcloud
  110. #philosophy
  111. #photographs
  112. #photos
  113. #pinephone
  114. #pixel
  115. #pixelfed
  116. #pop!_os
  117. #postmarketos
  118. #privacy
  119. #privacytools
  120. #projects
  121. #punkt
  122. #raspberry pi
  123. #red-herring
  124. #reddit
  125. #regulation
  126. #research
  127. #review
  128. #rss
  129. #safeguarding
  130. #school
  131. #screens
  132. #search
  133. #security
  134. #setiya
  135. #signal
  136. #skepticism
  137. #smartglasses
  138. #smartphone
  139. #socialmedia
  140. #solove
  141. #standardnotes
  142. #steelman
  143. #students
  144. #subscription
  145. #surface
  146. #surveillance
  147. #surveillancecapitalism
  148. #tablet
  149. #thestorygraph
  150. #thinkpad
  151. #timelimit
  152. #tinkering
  153. #transparency
  154. #tunnelvision
  155. #tuta
  156. #tutorial
  157. #ubuntu
  158. #ubuntutouch
  159. #update
  160. #uruky
  161. #veracrypt
  162. #videogames
  163. #vpn
  164. #whoogle
  165. #wiha
  166. #windows
  167. #worklifebalance
  168. #writerdeck
  169. #writing
  170. #youtube
  171. #zuboff
  172. [INTERVIEW] Why my Friend Quit Tutanota