I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:

"Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil"
"Doesn't morally support big tech, but uses some anyway"

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I'm probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.

🏳️‍⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️‍⚧️

What does MKBHD have to do with this? He's just a tech reviewer who kinda fits between tech normie and tech conservative

What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?

I'm a tech conservative?

I'm in the last column with the exception of thinking RMS is a misogynistic transphobe asshole

The fact that the favorite OS of the tech conservative is an Arch based distro and and a Debian based distro instead of pure Arch or Debian makes this meme inaccurate.

I'm a software engineer that uses windows and firefox, has no social media accounts (minus message boards), and owns a google pixel. Be confused. You can't stop me.

"I can't live with modern tech anymore"

uses modern tech

A truly paranoid individual unplugs every piece of technology and uses nothing with screens, buttons or electricity going through it.

I run arch, have the latest iphone, watch MKBHD, amd use tor… so…. yeah i dunno

Middle panel on most points, but only because too dumb & impulsive to be tech paranoid.

Don't be dumb & impulsive, kids, it is not a good mix.

I'm between conservative and paranoid and watch mental outlaw.

Tech normie also uses VS Code as a text editor sending data to Microsoft & using proprietary plugins.

I dislike this meme, it's inaccurate

Somehow I fall within all these categories

with how contentious Red Hat and Canonical decisions have been lately, the mid panel should have Arch and Debian replacing Ubuntu and Fedora.

What a bunch of bullshit.

I self-host my stuff because it's cheaper, I run Gentoo since the last 15 years and use Chrome because it's just better and friendly. I also have a Xperia android phone and really, really don't like MKBHD.

Look at me, I AM big tech now Self hosted, or it doesn't exist

There's should be a Matrix app in the middle or at the right.

With every passing year, little by little I go deeper to the privacy paranoid side.

But my focus is way more anti big corporation than pro privacy, that fact those are almost one and the same is mostly a side effect for me.

I feel like WhatsApp should be in the middle. The app is terrible, but the messaging is actually encrypted. We paranoids also appreciate Signal, and Element disappointingly gets no play here.

Also:

*believes not every company is inherently evil*

It's kind of weird, then, how they all end up doing evil stuff, including the guys that explicitly set out with the philosophy "don't be evil".

We can all tell conservative is supposed to be the enlightened one, but unless the creator is using a very malice-driven definition of evil (as opposed to including accidental evil) this line is an own-goal.

I am on arch rn and I think that I'm still on the middle one from the pic.

I use Edge, my favourite (or more accurately, most comfortable) OS is probably Ubuntu, and I self host a bunch of stuff.

The hell does that make me?

Watches Luke smith. Based.

Between normie and conservative, I'm waiting for SteamOS to become publicly available to even attempt switching to Linux.