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Not only are the penalties small enough to eat, but it's small enough to kick it down to the consumers.

I remember watching a YouTube video where dollar store would run local businesses out and would sell low quality products at a higher price once there is no competition.

There is a quick Google search where Qualcomm only guarantees 3 years of major OS upgrades and 4 years of security patches. There is articles where Fairhope blames Qualcomm as the largest barrier to long term update support. Understand that google supports their own chipset that they design and lease the manufacturing with samsung for tensor. used to be Qualcomm for the first 4 generations as google tried to customize Qualcomm's offerings to suit their needs.

Yeah, I read somewhere that the 6gb of ram is not capable of multitasking. So it is possible the bloat is taking a lot of the ram. My device has 8gb of ram, and 5 gb is in use, I don't use my phone too much.

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Holy moly guacamole, there are so many features I wanted! I wonder what the biggest downside is aside from mid camera quality.

Isn't wayfire a compiz descendant for wayland?

Second problem: too many people give a shot about what you do or look like

True, if you are doing it for privacy, then you should try to selfhost it. Else, it's best to use the provided online services. I usually only need the cross streets or highway exit. I can travel without constant GPS navigation. All I need is traffic(car crash) or the general location/plaza. For Houses, I just bring up the map route once I get to the neighborhood.(which is not as cpu/resource intensive to route.)

What should I do about vehicle insurance? If I want to self insure in my state, I'll need to have 10 or more(some states require 25 or 26) vehicles registered in my name and prove I am "financially capable" to the motor vehicle department based on their demands. I would basically be forced to be wealthy already or run my own insurance scheme in-house for family or friends, and have ownership of the vehicles, like some pseudo rental company.

Some states, like California, only require 1 vehicle and 35000 in cash in a savings account to get self insurance. Maybe I should move to another state. Rich people have so many chances not to pay these rent/subscription traps that constantly drain your income.

Hmm I don't listen to music much. Like almost never as they get stuck in a loop in my head that I can't sleep at night or get headaches. I don't know why and I just isolate myself. I never bothered trying to get help with it as it only seems to happen when I listen to music a lot vs once or twice every so often.

Fair enough, I mentioned ungoogled chrome because websites are lenient to it, and I use it for those sites that are being a pain in my ass. Also, I use the ungoogle chromium to separate my Firefox fingerprint from those privacy invading sites. It's a strange quirk of mine, but I'm hoping it pays off to prevent them from identifying my browsing habits.

Fair enough, filtering is a tough thing to do. Maybe we can use llm to process content to help?

BTW someone made a guide on verifying the Pop OS checksums validity with gpg as the checksum is made with gpg key. https://gist.github.com/davidk/faf4018dd028ea997383f69e72c8572f https://github.com/pop-os/ISO

No, and yes

A partly because there is always small risk involved in everything in life. However, you do need to realize what the paranoia is supposed to help prevent. If you install an unverified os thar hijacks the machine, then you will need to live the loss of the machine. Particularly, your paranoia stems mostly because you are afraid of losing your privacy or machine to a possible malicious attack. The proper way of mitigating this is to build from a verified source instead, as in you know what the code is, but you can't because the systems are too complex for a single person to verify manually. Unfortunately, your paranoia is too shallow and unfounded, and you will need to do some self reflection to come to the acceptance of a world you can not know or control.

On the other hand, when you are doing proper procedure to do a basic verification step to prevent corruption or possible simplistic malicious attacks, it is good behavior. It great you feel the need to verify your distributions and that your paranoia is likely not paranoia at all! A simple checksum is nice. Also, how can you verify that a gpg key is also a good one and not a tampered gpg that matches the tampered ISO? There is a level of trust you have, and your paranoia is simply never going to be able to be paranoid enough to encompass everything. You are forced to place some trust in something. After all, there are vulnerabilities found in gpg software that does either the encrypting step or verification steps(either from gaining the private key or the verification step throwing false positives). There is only so much we as normal people can do.

So overall, it is both. You are responsible, and your paranoia is too shallow to be useful for you. Go the extra steps and compile from source. It is safer because the code is less likely to be tampered and you can know it is right because you made it yourself.

And then eventually all the Chinese beers will get vpns or whatever to mask their ip and country of origin, thereby defeating the whole purpose and creating more cpu usage to lookup the blocks for every connection... if it's very dumb things to do, it doesn't solve the problem at hand. I don't know how to solve it but one day there will be a client that someone will make that will.

I hear the ungoogled chromium is immune to the youtube antiadblock bs while getting rid of google's influence, leaving you to be able to keep your Firefox identity safe without compromising your privacy by going to a browser you know is maintained by a community instead of another corporation

Living in the right time period lmao

When you want to go overboard because you want more fun, get enterprise equipment and get proxmox running with all kinds of virtual machines running with whatever you please. With access from anywhere in the world through rdp or vnc or whatever and you don't need to worry about leaving a laptop on and running connected to wall power. Always secure because your data is technically in a personal cloud.

All valid.

I personally believe that if work mandates electronic material for your job or project, then they should provide the equipment. However, if this is not possible, then getting equipment that is specialized for your work is a more prudent solution that you can free your daily driver from.

After all, we shouldn't be married to our work. It should be an investment in our skills and abilities.