1. Tormented in dreams. Feeling powerless about other people's behavior during the pandemic. Weekly visit from family without masks and conspiracy bullshit each time. When I wore a mask they started crying and swearing. Now they're all into the anti-vax propaganda. I have been sick twice and I don't trust their behavior at all, but they refuse to listen and trust Fakebook/Youtube garabage instead.
Netherlands here. I don't use mobile internet, so no difference for me.
You can use it on IoT, maybe there's some gain in that area. The near future will have many more devices connected to the internet, consider "smart phones", "smart watches" and all the other toys.
My hardware is unable to run Qubes OS. So I did something else.
I sandbox using different machines and a KVM switch. That limits what domain the potential applications can reach.
Then I use pledge on OpenBSD to further limit what apps can do. This is the default for many apps on OpenBSD and they can't access anything other then the specified directory. Firejail used a few times, but optional security is no security at all. I played around with SELinux, but it seems to overcomplicate it.
The situation seems to be, that OpenBSD is the only system that limits what applications can do by default. Perhaps Linux systems or Mac will limit what apps can do in the future. OpenBSD has often been the first mover. As I get older, the "by default" is the way to go. I'm not a teenager anymore that can spend all afternoon toying around with the kernel configuration or xf86config. Obviously I can't use OpenBSD for everything, so I switch between systems.
Because they are physically different machines, an app can't break out of the VM. You'll want to block SSH though. This is a simple and cheap solution that requires only some discipline about what laptop you use for what and a very messy table (4+ laptops).
The machines will be compromised (pessimist view on security), but at least it would stick into one machine. OpenBSD takes security the most serious on kernel level, but X is still a security circus. The access applications have on default Linux, Windows or Mac is way to much for my liking.
This is a simple supervised learning classification problem, just select the right features. You have to know what kind of smartness you are looking for, for your training data set. Record the conversation then pull it through your classifier.
2. End of the pandemic. Starting a new life
3. Wait