Factory reset an old phone and leave it in airplane mode.
If it get "lost" or "stolen" you aren't out much, and it doesn't contain any personal information. If "law enforcement" gets their hands on it the only data it has is the IMEI and maybe wireless MACs, enough to ID you based on previous use but they would have to contact telecos and request the info. Current "law enforcement" seems too chaotic to spend time tracing the owner of an empty phone.
For a detailed discussion about phones, personal data and anonymity, there is a good book written by a former police officer: Michael Bazzell (2024) Extreme Privacy: What It Takes To Disappear, fifth edition.
I'm not an expert in digital footprint-hiding, but it's probably a good idea to replace / remove the SIM card as well. A factory reset will leave data laying around, just not accessible through "normal" means.
On any modern phone, your phones user partition is encrypted with a key that is itself encrypted by a key stored in the CPU. When you factory reset, what's happening is basically the key in the CPU is deleted, then re-created. At that point the data on your partition is random noise, so a new encryption key is derived and used to format the partition.
Even better, modern Android then encrypted your personal data with yet another layer based on your password/key/pattern you use to unlock your device. Many layers.
Retrieving that data would be incredibly hard even for a nation state unless the encryption used was deliberately backdoored, and even then once the device TRIM's the space (which it likely does prior to formatting) that data is gone on a hardware level.
(TL;DR Can't move the memory chip to a new device, and even if you backdoor the OS you still need the users password)
LLMs are not intelligent machines, they are lying engines that predict the next most likely thing to do or say. If publishing your credit card details, home address and blood type meshes with the last thing it ingested, it'll do it.
At $70-100 for a "triple A" title, every pixel and line of code had better be personally massaged by developer. There are plenty of one-man-band operations out there making phenomenal games, for less, without needing to generate anything.
Clever, I've done something similar for an Arduino project where each char bitmap includes the pixel width and a vertical offset bit for letters like g or j that hang down below the other letters. Each char bitmap was 5x5px and stored as a 32bit int in an array.
You get x-many joules of energy from combining each carbon atom with two oxygen atoms, then you have to capture that energy and turn it into useful work, but that is a lossy process. So even if your gaoline-from-air machine was 100% efficient you would still need to burn more carbon than it captures just to run the machine, so to make it run you need to supplement it with some other energy source.
If you already have an additional energy source with which you can run your gasoline machine then why make the gasoline at all? Just use the energy source you have directly in an electric car.
It depends if it can produce gasoline at a cost similar to pulling it out of the ground and then distilling it, it might be worth it. There are over 1 billion internal combustion cars around the wolrd. They are not going anywhere anytime soon, powering them this way has incredible advantages for everyone involved even if we ignore climate change.
Except the energy used to power the machine an manufacture the consumables is MORE than the energy you get from burning the gasoline it produces. If you have all that energy to waste initially just drive an electric car and skip this Rube Goldberg step of un-combusting carbon.
Exposure time is less important than exposure type. Phones and tablets encourage mindless consumption and discourage creativity and interaction by the limiting apps and input methods.
<old man> I spent every available minute on a desktop from age 7 to 17 but that time was split between games that require 100% of your attention, and message boards where you need to backread a thread for context. </old man>
Activities that require full attention and active participation make you feel better than scrolling for an hour, whether it's an challenging game, a longform discussion, or reading a book.
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