Keeping this here for anyone who might need it. Please share freely so we can end the need to share it at all :/

@Chimaera ah jeez look, as a parent and former deviant youth, no please please don't do this.

Just use a different device. Chatting with people online your parents explicitly forbid is not going to end well. Closing browser windows as soon as they walk in is obvious and frankly irritating as heck, infact I set one of my kids computers to save a screenshot to the desktop once a minute to remind him to be smarter about it.

As a once quite deviant youth, I'd suggest using connection sharing to another device such as with a hidden local pivate wifi and then, on top of that, using something with no local storage for your terminal. I used a laptop with no hard drive and no battery and a wifi card with a mac address my father had never had in his dhcp logs when I was learning about coming out. My mother had a habit of ripping devices out of my hands and reading my journal, etc. Any device with ddr3 ram or newer should work fine.

The local library is a great resource as well (depending on local attitudes). You are not the first oppressed soul seeking truth, and there are correct ways to do it. They can help. Learn about good opsec and be safe.

@silver do you honestly think the average parent in this country would understand the tech behind even half of what you wrote? For real? Lots of kids at my child’s school had to be loaned a basic laptop by the Dept of Ed. during the pandemic so they could study from home.
@Chimaera My kid's public school loaner laptop use agreement allows them to take periodic screenshots and makes them available to parents on request. Assuming your opponent is foolish is not safe. Your comment offers no useful suggestions.