I have no idea what anyone should be doing, but I’ll tell you what I personally am doing:

• emailing my representatives over and over
• emptied all cloud services and all personal big tech accounts (can’t do much about the work ones…)
• getting acquainted with Linux, VPNs and Tor
• learning to flash custom ROMs
• testing said custom ROMs
• digging into app permissions - even graphene comes with things enabled that I realized I want to turn off (like ad privacy, printer services and android services that enable nearby share which I personally don’t use)
• use Obtainium and F-droid for apps
• testing out p2p services to see which ones are useful
• stashing Linux isos, so I hopefully always have at least one that either doesn’t have age verification or one where it’s easy enough to rip out
• downloaded “linux from scratch”, but I’ll admit I haven’t read it yet

Could these principles be used for ID/age/humanness verification?

Well at least some years ago, Apple’s face ID stopped working when I got bracers. I’m guessing the models are better now, though

I have actually been looking for something like this, look forward to giving it a go!

The first thing I ever did in Python, after the obligatory “Hello World”, was to follow a tutorial to make a simple task tracker web app. Then I made a small routine to edit Excel files. A few months later I was getting paid to write Python code (and yes, I got lucky as shit, but my point is that it was easy to keep going as soon as I just got started). Just start making things, it doesn’t really matter what as long as you enjoy it. It will be useful. Follow tutorials, look stuff up online, you’ll absorb syntax without cramming it. You’ve got this!

If anyone irl asks, I’m “trying to learn how to use Linux”. Which is technically true, I still learn new things all the time!

I have never internally facepalmed harder in my life

Gotta love it when people who have no understanding of how Linux works writes laws about how Linux should work…