Damn, that’s a high bar to clear. Almost none of the distros I know pass their criteria

I’m not trying to be mean, but I didn’t really understand much of that. Can you translate from your native language on DeepL or something?

Can someone clue me in to why Mint wouldn’t be “libre”? What does “libre” mean in this context exactly?

Seriously, I though Lemmy users would be a little more aware of this stuff. I’ve seen people openly saying they want to assault federal agents and government property, and now this guy

Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type

They can and most of the time they do complain about free apps

Nice! Will start using. I ran out of Proton aliases this year and have been reusing some of them, which sucks. Thank you

People say it is because Proton has collaborated with the government, but it just hasn’t happened yet because Tuta isn’t big enough to warrant such a thing. There’s almost no way to prevent such a thing from happening with email providers, it just isn’t private communication at all

GrapheneOS is absolutely niche. You have to go out of your way to buy a Pixel (which in many countries isn’t even available), choose the bank that has a working app on Graphene, etc

In regards to addy, are my messages private in relation to the service or does it only serve to keep my anonymity to other threat actors?

The main reason why I use open source is precisely because I don’t need or want to worry about this crap. The software is as much property of humanity as it is of the creator, it is basically just knowledge

First off, Google has made agressive deals with phone manufacturers to ship spyware with their phones by default, and some of the stuff can only get taken out by rooting/jailbreaking the phone. By doing so, they acquired nearly 100% of the app store market share, and then used it to make “useful features” such as integrity checks that are tied to the Play Services app (which is an always on spyware background app).
The end result is, even if you manage to root your phone and install a custom ROM (which is not always available to every model), a bunch of apps will refuse to work properly because you fail the Google Play fingerprinting steps and are assumed to be a security vulnerability. If I’m not mistaken there’s also some shady stuff with certificates, too

Google already does precisely that with their “open source” mobile OS. People underestimate how easily these guys can ruin stuff

League was the reason I stalled so long, too, but honestly, Riot is just as bad as Microsoft. Vanguard is unacceptable and we should make our voices heard by not playing their games anymore. There are so many great games running just fine on Linux, nowadays I don’t even feel like I’m restricted at all

What does this accomplish?

Gotta up my junk food consumption then

I feel this. Physical books are much better for reading but I miss grep so much when I need to consult

Would stuff like Fedora be in danger, in this case? I couldn’t find if Red Hat was US based

Yeah, to some things they are

I mean, isn’t this the exact scenario they wrote in the Second Amendment for? Can’t say this reaction is surprising given it’s at the roots of the country and extensively defended by the Founding Fathers