Elon Musk coined the term"Idiot Index" as a manufacturing efficiency metric used at SpaceX and Tesla that calculates the ratio of a finished product’s total cost to the cost of its raw materials. It serves as a diagnostic to identify unnecessary complexity, inefficiencies, and waste in production.
Any computer from the last 20 years-or-so is capable of generating a secure bitcoin seed. So the cost of acquiring a device to "secure your sats" is approaching FREE. You probably already have a phone, or laptop.
Learn how to use the CPU you already own in a secure and isolated environment.
Don't use hardware advertised for bitcoin
Why connect your email/shipping address to a Bitcoin-related device where it can be leaked and targeted by scammers? Every step in the supply chain invites an attack because of the nature of the hardware's single purpose.
Don't read ads that encourage your audience to buy idiot index hardware
Every podcaster could spend 30-60 seconds per-episode explaining a security/cryptography topic or educational segment. Instead they steal more of their audience's time to make money by shilling them a quick fix with a high idiot tax.
If a hardware wallet was necessary to use bitcoin securely, it wouldn't need advertising.
Build your own hardware wallet with commodity hardware
still thinking this through, but there seems to be a paradox here, cheaper compute, wallets can become better tested, secure and significantly more accessible but at same time cheap compute also makes them easier to study, probe and attack at scale??? feel like I'm missing something
Maybe the paradox in your thinking is believing that testing and securing software is fundamentally different than probing and attacking software.
They're the same thing.
this is all, you could even discover a wallet from paper. is not necessary make simple things more complicated. knowledge is the thing.