I have written numerous posts about how it feels overwhelming to want to make a change but to have no secure way of doing so, only for people to provide useless individualist solutions to a problem that is honestly far larger.
When I say I want to switch from Windows to Linux but that I don't know the best way of doing so because I do not know which is the best Linux variant for me and that I would feel more confident in trying them out within a community, it does not help me to say “You can put it on a USB and boot different ones up.” It still leaves me without having a secure space to try these things, and it still puts the onus on trying to find something more secure... on myself. Which is nonsensical.
When I say I want to de-Google my phone, it does not help to tell me to buy another one. Do you think I'm made of money? Do you think I can just go out and buy a new phone? Especially when certain phones make it easier than others? Do you think I can just figure all this out for myself? Should I even have to? Why aren't the tech spaces who claim to care so much about privacy doing anything for the average person?
Why is it when I say that I want a community of people who can help make it easier and possible to remove Microsoft and Google from my life, I get fucking individualist solutions? That's absurd.
If I feel that way, maybe a lot of people feel the same. You cannot tell me everyone wants to solve every problem on their own! I would never believe it!
And stop giving people advice they never asked for! Stop responding with “help” and reflect upon whether or not the person you're talking to even wants it in the first fucking place. It shouldn't be hard to recognise when they do! In fact, they'll probably ask for it when they need it.
And if you can't figure that out, fucking ask before offering it.