Lol. GTFO here ya clown. Anyone that lives in a big city knows that cameras don’t stop crimes. Tweekers, dirty cops, politicians… none of em give a shit if they’re on camera.

They also use a heap of cameras with facial recognition to track you.

I don’t think that’s a guide… it’s a hands on class. Maybe even a good idea to pitch to your local community college, community center, or adult edu department.

It’ll shock you how low the average person’s technical literacy is. And since you’re talking about a guide for a lot of things that update independently, the guide will begin to be outdated before you even publish it. It’s exceptionally hard to keep technical documentation in sync with software and hardware that you don’t control, and when the users of your guide hit those spots where the doc doesn’t match, they bail quickly.

What key concepts to cover probably depends on what you’re trying to teach. If it’s just how to use a web browser, the mainstream distros all do that pretty well out of the box once they’re installed (although installation can still a bit of a challenge from one laptop to the next). Maybe the greatest communal benefit would be to teach foundational concepts of online security.

So why don’t they do it?

Optics. It’s valuable to be seen supporting something that you don’t support, but a material proportion of your constituents do. And you’re comfortable supporting it because you know isn’t going to get signed. Politicians do this sort of thing all the time. Gives them the opportunity to tell voters “Hey, we tried, we just didn’t win this time. Also… need more money.”

Private jet aircraft. They are very expensive to buy (say from US$ 5 to 70 million), but also shockingly expensive to operate. It’s hard to put an exact number to operation costs since it’s a mix of fixed and variable costs, but a fancy jet like a G650 is likely gonna be a few million a year in op costs (fuel, maintenance, management, crew salaries. training, hangar fees, facility fees, and so on. Also, few people actually buy aircraft directly. Rather they pay a management company to set up an ownership entity that owns and manages the aircraft for you.

It’s tempting to think of a jet as a vehicle, but really it’s more like paying people to do all the work and waiting for you so that the time you spend waiting is as minimal as possible. When most people fly, you buy a ticket, you book a ride to the airport, you go through security, customs, immigration, ticketing, baggage handling, and so on. Then you wait to board, wait for everyone else to board, wait for other planes to take off, maybe fly to a hub location enroute to your destination, and so on. If you’re in a plane like a G650, you pay other people to do all of this for you so that you can show up to a plane that’s fueled and ready to go, with the cabin AC at the temp you like, and your cocktail already poured sitting at the table by your seat. You get in, they start the roll.

It’s lavish, opulent, and wasteful in the extreme, but still a damn nice way to travel.

I was gonna say the same thing. Never had a death threat sent to me, but I have had guns pointed at me a couple of times, so I guess that is a death threat of sorts. Been threatened with violence a few times, and even an attempted carjacking once. Not a damn one of them was conscientious enough to put it in writing though.

Even if you never went online, heaps of data about you is collected and sold.

• ALPRs collect and sell your car’s movement and location data.
• Stores you shop at collect identity data and share your purchases and consumer behaviors, even when you pay cash.
• Banks and financial institutions share information about your assets, financial holdings, purchases, and electronic transactions.
• Governments mandate that all sorts of information about you is public.

And if you are online, the “be as anonymous as you can and don’t share your personal data over the internet.” statement makes it sound easy, which is far from true. It’s a constant game of whack-a-mole where one needs incredibly disciplined to compartmentalize and segregate login sessions across browsers and devices. If one isn’t technically skilled and constantly vigilant, it’s a losing battle. That’s why awareness and campaigns that support privacy focused regulation are important.

Training courses and apprenticeships; there are a lot of specialized tools, techniques, and diagnostic procedures that aren’t obvious. Self guided usually results in doing a lot of things the wrong way.