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AFAICT Chromium isn’t free software, it’s BSD-3 and a few other non-copyleft licenses. GPLv3 seems fairly solid to me

I used a 64-bit version 💀

time to hand in my gommunism card

“with a minor” is a huge fucking understatement, jfc

RIP, modal editing will live on

nice, I wasn’t aware of that one

I would recommend a SearXNG instance

It may be possible to buy it anonymously, but you’d still need to be very careful not to let it communicate with any cell phone towers and reveal your home’s location (e.g. by only inserting it in some public place, registering on Signal, and then removing it). There are also other concerns listed in the linked document that make Signal even more suspicious

the requirement for phone numbers should be enough to dissuade anyone from using Signal for anything but low-stakes communication :|

AFAICT Matrix is pretty good in terms of security, even if the overly complex encryption occasionally causes unreadable messages

if you want to try something like Gentoo as a Debian user, it should probably be in a VM or on a second physical computer until you get used to it

yes, the vast majority of distros are based on another distro (which may be based on another, and …)

Linux is not Unix-based in the sense that it’s a fork of Unix (the latter is proprietary), but it’s certainly based on Unix’s design, just like the various BSDs

I wouldn’t recommend ReactOS for daily use unless it’s seen massive improvements in the last year or so

I think I switched from Windows 10 to Linux when I became conscious of online privacy due to things like the Snowden leaks. I tried a few distros and settled on Debian, initially with a GUI, but it wasn’t too hard to get used to the CLI for package management. I just looked things up whenever I encountered a problem and gradually learned more about Linux-related topics

Shit proposal, IMO. I’m fine with them having an alternative installer ISO that includes proprietary firmware and explicitly informs the user about this, but to do it by default in their normal installer (which is the intent, if I’ve understood it correctly) is absolute bullshit. One of the reasons why I still use Debian is that they keep non-free software out of their default repositories, and that this has to be explicitly enabled. Depending on how the new installer ends up presenting this, at least there are forks like Devuan, but it’s a damn shame

zsh, although I don’t remember why I switched from bash