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oh noooooo not the copyright infringement!

I think you misunderstand what Arch is. You absolutely do not assemble the entirety of the OS from scratch. You don't compile anything during an Arch install—you install pre-compiled binaries. And you don't actually have an awful lot of OS freedom in terms of what gets installed. If you wanted to use, say, openrc+musl+busybox+dracut, Arch wouldn't be for you, as Arch uses systemd+glibc+gnu+mkinitcpio (You can try to replace these but these are what Arch uses by default; if you're wanting to change these things, maybe just use a different distro). Arch just doesn't install a display manager (you don't need one; I don't use one), any kind of graphical session (you technically don't need one either, but I assume the vast majority of desktop users want a graphical session), or a bootloader. You can install all of those things yourself. Assuming you want all three of those things, that's probably just three packages you install, and the OS doesn't install for you, so that you can pick them yourself.

Arch doesn't have an installer insofar as you install it with shell commands, but also the actual install itself is just one pacstrap command which installs a full OS for you in one command.

If you're wanting to build an OS entirely from scratch, you may want to look into Linux from Scratch [disclaimer: I have not done LFS]. I don't know of anyone who actually daily drives LFS though, as you wouldn't have a package manager which would put most users off.

In all my years of not using WhatsApp this has never happened to me lol. At best I've gotten some people to message me individually on Signal but not entire groups

I think it's a really cool project and I can tell the amount of love the devs put into it. Far from daily drive-able—a lot of websites don't display properly for me, and I find their ports system to be a bit of an awkward way to install software. But I love the aesthetics and the idea behind it. I look forward to seeing them develop it more.

Notesnook is working on making their sync server self-hostable so you might just want to self-host once that's available. Otherwise if it's just down short-term just a text editor and markdown? You can import markdown files to Notesnook once it's back up for you.

Notesnook has been working fine for me, not sure why some users are having issues and some not.

I don't know about "normal" (I imagine it depends on how you define "normal") but I do that and I think it's fairly common too. Much easier to do 1 thing at a time than many.

Wow. At least it's easy to sideload apps in Android.

For context, my threat model doesn’t need to account for real people breaking in and accessing my computer, the damage would be very contained.

I mean if you don't have open ssh ports on your computer or whatever I don't think you need a strong password, given that you're not concerned about physical access. I would say that at the very least have a reasonably secure root password (/user password if you're a sudoer/anyone else who can get root permissions with your user account) because if you end up with some malware on your computer that can, say, enter passwords, you don't want it to be ridiculously easy to bruteforce.

Yeah I agree I don't want bleeding edge hence why I won't be using anything Arch-based (despite the fact that Arch-based systems are the ones I'm most familiar with, I'm typing this on an Artix system rn). But there is definitely a middle ground between bleeding edge and outdated, and I imagine a server should want to be somewhere between the middle and outdated, depending on how they balance stability and security.

I'm also not categorically opposed to using Debian. Ubuntu was my first Linux distro so I'm at least more familiar with Debian-based distros than most other popular server distros. I was just thinking probably not Debian because of how old its packages are and that I'm fairly concerned with security.

I don't justify Mozilla's bullshit, and I don't use upstream Firefox for that reason (I use LibreWolf). Asking Mozilla to implement their own adblocker is asking them to reinvent the wheel. They should ship Firefox with uBlock Origin pre-installed like I said. Asking Mozilla to write their own adblocker which will likely be less effective than a third-party adblocker, is absolutely not the same thing as justifying them sneaking in opt-out PPA. How on earth do you even see those things as remotely comparable

I'm saying that your suggestion is ridiculous, not that what Mozilla is currently doing is correct.

Firefox is a browser, not an adblocker. Why would they make their own adblocker when there are already independent adblockers that are very good? I would suggest Firefox just come pre-installed with uBlock Origin

Who's "we"? I don't glorify these people.

I don't block any communities. I'm confused as to what the point of blocking communities is—are you browsing All? I only see posts from communities I'm subscribed to

What is non-communist "leftism" though? That's so vague. Unless you just mean non-communist anarchists I guess. I prefer the label "far-left" which I think is much more clear about meaning "communists and anarchists". "Leftist" is so vague and many radlibs seem to self-identify that way.

I don't think that's a helpful mindset either. Sometimes two people just don't get along and it's no one's fault

Like I said, LibreOffice Draw can edit PDFs. Try it out and see if it's suitable for your needs

LibreOffice Draw can edit PDFs. For just a pdf reader, I use Zathura, though it may not be for you since it's very keyboard-based so might be confusing to someone coming from Windows. I think Cinnamon must come with a default pdf reader right?

I just use Mullvad VPN's default DNS servers (with ad blocking, tracker blocking, and malware blocking)

Dark Reader browser extension or just a userstyle. For me, Dark Reader works very well for sourcehut.

Something funded by the government but ran by a public org would be ideal.

"the government" which government?

I don't want software beholden to any state interests. I see donationware as the way to go; or if donations can't sustain server costs, donations for sustaining development, and then a public flagship instance which people can pay to use, or self-host for their own server costs.