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by mtmail 910 days ago
I have a friend (in Germany) which diagnosed paranoid schizophrenia and it was similar. He refused to use MS Windows because it was bugged, any error message would start a new fear. He used Tails but later didn't trust that either. He installed Linux but only from a CD he ordered as downloading anything might have been tempered with. "They" were after him. "They" also had a secret hiding place in his walls and tried to kill him several times. He's better now but I have cache of old emails, one crazier than the next.
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2023 is hard. Taken in isolation everything really is “bugged” and “tampered with”.

You can only get so many “oops security incident” emails from various providers in a row before you get more paranoid.

Then if you have a predilection for paranoid schizophrenia, it’s not faeries and demons that haunt you, it’s 23andMe hacks and Windows rootkits.