Mike

Not if you flash GrapheneOS on your Pixel. :) then only the good ol’wiretapping can get you.

Happens on the time. Especially in professions where your life is basically work.

Too bad it comes at the expense of Google knowing everything you talk about, and to whom.

We don’t want US shit. Simple as.

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What human rights? 😅

Are you me? It sounds like you’re me, but ahead of the journey.

Already on Graphene and Linux (openSUSE in my case) and considering starting to self-host myself.

I think in the short term this is the only solution to escape the garbage that the internet has become.

Well, I’m glad you know about it now, but let’s be real nerds won’t shut up about it, so there are plenty who do know but choose not to.

You’re just in those circles.

Most people don’t know any nerds, or people who are particularly tech-savvy, and if they do, “alternative app stores” isn’t really the most engaging of topics that people have with their friends.

Cool. Won’t affect me, but good to know.

I expect them to give shareholders and directors a haircut before laying off workers, yes.

But we know Microsoft never does that, so they can go f themselves.

Another reason for me to leave windows behind for good.

Lol. They can’t even get rid of the camera dock and now all of a sudden they’ll jump to no visible camera? I call BS on that.

When the US government demands that System76 hands over all info they have on the people who use their products, or decides to ban access to US software from countries Trump has decided in his mind are “playing unfair”, let’s see how far PopOS being FOSS takes us.

It is Linux! Honestly mentioning SUSE was a mistake since most people aren’t gonna use that. That would be for enterprises or government.

OpenSUSE, particularly openSUSE Aeon is the one I would use if I wasn’t too knowledgeable about Linux. It just works out of the box, and it’s an atomic distro so a lot of the guides out there for other atomic distros apply to Aeon.

“Legitimate competition is when other countries impose unwarranted tariffs on us while their companies monopolise our markets.”

PopOS! is built by a US company BTW.

OpenSUSE is German, Mint is Irish and so is ZorinOS.

Excellent, they should. Europe has many services that are already on par with American alternatives (certainly when it comes to Microsoft’s services), many are cheaper or even free, and actually respect our data.

We also have SUSE and OpenSUSE from Germany that work as very serviceable alternatives to Windows. I hope this wake up call that has been the US’s betrayal of all past allies leads EU tech to capitalize on it.

I don’t disagree with you.

Applying the term Rogue State is probably only an excuse to attack in most cases, but it really applies to DRK.

The chicken or the egg, which came first?

If i were to guess, I’d say North Korea doesn’t engage with more standard economic activities because the entire western world refuses to do business with them. So they resort to illegal activities instead.

Not that this excuses much, but countries still need to survive somehow. Cuba is a country that doesn’t do any of the hacking that NK does, but that doesn’t save them from being mercilessly cut off from the world economy either. And NK knows this.

Also, I’m not a north Korean bot and I resent that the discourse around this topic has become so polluted that I have to preface by saying this.