Yea, people mostly equate email to an electronic letter, but it’s more like an electronic postcard. Anyone handling it can simply read it.
So you’ll want encryption, too. So either you get everyone to use PGP/GPG or get them to use a privacy-by-default providers.
Good luck with the first option and I’m not sure how interoperable the various providers are, so I’m the worst case you’d have to rally everyone to the same provider.

Oh, so it’s all about consent? Huh.

Rude

Memorisation isn’t the issue. I know their names and their relation to each other.
But unlike some birds I don’t simply see where North is.
I can make a rough estimate based on the position of the sun, if conditions allow.
But if I’m in the subway tunnels or just emerged I might as well spin in a circle and appoint a random direction North. It’s certainly not an intuition as it seems to be for some people.

What’s wrong with taxi services?
From a client perspective Uber and Lyft don’t solve any issue that taxi services don’t. They may be more convenient/accessible by providing an app, but that’s not an unsolvable issue.
But from a privacy perspective taxis clearly have a leg up since you’re an anonymous customer.

Maybe it’s time we give up on computers. We’re simply not good with them. Or maybe it’s just time to oxidise all the software.

Play store is a shitshow. It’s so hard to spot the few actual gems in the absolute avalanche of ad-ridden asset flip time wasters that have the only goal of harvesting your data or running a monero miner in the background. The chances are better with paid games, but even then it’s hit-or-miss.
I gave up on mobile gaming long ago.

The potato rested for 8 hours, the potato should get into gear or the potato is gonna be late for school.

pavucontrol probably the best option given your distro. Go with that.

I never learned how that happened. We suspected that someone might have sneakily applied them during production or before delivery, as the trains were brand-new.
I doubt they were “official” stickers 😉

When the Munich public transport introduced new trains around 20 years ago some of them had porn images stuck to the inside of legs of some of the benches. You can be sure that teenage boys find them.
The numbers quickly dwindled but it took the company years until they had them all removed.

Ain’t that the truth. But I love the workflow they offer. You don’t have to go looking for new windows. You can easily pin applications to virtual desktops and I prefer the multihead model they use over the one used by gnome or KDE.

So we have to piece information together from the manual and random blogs? Like cavemen? Or worse, like Windows users??

To be fair, depending on how the hummus is seasoned, that might work quite well.

Took me a sec.

Yea, but people don’t play the same game non-stop for 8 hours… actually, never mind.

Obviously

Not to mention that they’re still considered experimental.

I don’t know what gave you the idea that a particular distro would be an especially good/bad choice for privacy, etc. They’re all GNU/Linux with only minor differences in compile-time options in the kernel and different defaults in user-space. But they’re just that, defaults. You can reconfigure them to your preference.

With that out of the way, the issue NixOS attempts to address is reproducibility. You get a central configuration infrastructure that defines everything, from partition layout, through user creation and package installation to software configuration. The central idea being that migrating to a new machine or setting up a new development environment should only take a few commands.
What you do with that is up to you. You can barricade the whole system if you like. The defaults are sane, but not overly focused on privacy, etc.
Also it’s quite a learning curve as the documentation/wiki is incomplete and/or outdated.

It should be ‘retroactively.’