I've eschewd-in-advance ANY Talking /Listening-24/7 (and spreading-around the data) to $$$-mongers worldwide (without Paying Me, even)
Including WiFi--no networks here--though if a friend's laptop is handy ..maybe indulge some coffee-house WiFi just for shits & giggles.
(It's not. as. if. we hadn't been Warned ..via every dystopian screed extant, even in our childhood)

Carrion ..it's the opposite of Silence is Golden, writ-Large.