As a linux noob, I am developing the spider sense of telling when a solution is something reliable and when it’s something that will fuck me up 3 months down the line.

It’s been… Interesting. I still haven’t figured out what’s the sane way to have multiple CUDA coexist peacefully…

I suspect you may have gone at it in a bit of a brutal way that I’m not sure is entirely effective, but then again I guess in this community there are better judge for that than myself…

How did you degoogle exactly?

I flashed a degoogle OS (Lineage) and immediatly flashed MicroG, before the first boot.

I was under the assumption this was the proper way to do it, but it’s been years at this point, maybe I misremember or maybe stuff have changed.

I have MicroG and don’t get those. I’m not sure it’s what you are looking for…

I like how you felt the need to specify “with Arch”.

That’s what my mother does because she’s senile.

Having the dialogue is a good thing.

Let’s say, I don’t know, a government builds a great firewall and forbit people from trying to circumvent it.

This citizen has an account with this VPN provider is not “nothing”.

Fun fact, in many languages apothecary is the normal word for a farmacy!

It is not the only point when it comes to adopting technologies, when it comes to maximizing privacy, yes maximizing privacy is tautologically the only point.

Because it makes the point for a more solid technology as far as privacy is concerned?

What?

This is your brain on drugs.

America has lots of issues, no need to make things up.

I’ve never experienced it but the somewhat obvious trick is that it turns into a race to the bottom, where if you want to outperform your peers (or even meet the expectations of the company), the number of days off you freely decided to take turns into a KPI.

So, people take even less days off when they are made free to take any amount.

It’s why in Italy, for example, you can not refuse to go to holiday.

“Don’t you guys have phones?”

Also, I htought 99% of tablets connect to the mobile network using a SIMcard, but even if you rely only on wifi, see my previous quote.

Tablets can’t run mobile apps?

I didn’t give it access to my contacts and navigate it by familiarity with profile pictures and using “Open in WhatsApp”, an app that let’s you… open WhatsApp conversation from your contacts manually (I need it only for a new contact)

Please don’t suck please don’t suck please don’t suck.

I use it daily, it works wihtout issues for me, I don’t know what these dudes are talking about.

You are one of those hardcore the uglier the better. I respect that.