You forgot “Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad” on tech paranoid

uses a modern Notebook which is QubesOS certified and runs coreboot

I forget there are linux-friendly laptops nowadays.

I find most laptops are well supported about a year after their release.

whats librebooted mean

Replacing the bootloader with a FOSS bootloader called LibreBoot

It’s an open source bios. There are only builds for a certain few laptops and it involves opening it up and flashing the bios chip

why would you even do that, forgive my ignorance

Brave being listed alongside Firefox

Bestie Brave is literally just Chromium again. Not to mention the fact that their CEO is someone who got ousted from Firefox for being a tremendous bigot. It’s not a better alternative to Chrome, it’s just the same thing again. It you must use a chromium browser, use ungoogled.

Brave also does sneaky shit with your data

Could you elaborate on that?

I personally use Librewolf. Its just a hardened version of Firefox so you don’t have to do it yourself.

I tried it but didn’t care to find out if there was a way to stop it from deleting all my tabs and logins, and I’m not relogging into everything just because I needed to close my browser.

It doesn’t delete your stuff it just doesn’t save your history and cookies as a save browser should do. For me that little inconvenience is fine because I get a big privacy benefit out of it IMO.

You can set exceptions to the cookie deletion in the security settings. I personally have everything I use frequently (invidious and stuff) to keep the login cookies. Or you can just completely disable that feature.

Me too lol, why cant I see other replies tho?

Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.

I think the vanilla Brave Settings are better than Vanilla Firefox. Though something like Firefox with a custom user.js or Librewolf is a lot better than Brave

Unfortunately he’s also the inventor of JavaScript. Which makes the entire concept of Web 2.0 problematic by association.

I fall under Tech Conservative mostly, but I would like to edit the last 2 points to this for myself:

“Believe every publicly traded company is inherently evil”
“Doesn’t morally support big tech, but uses some anyway”

An important note to your last one is for some of us we don’t get an option. Work does everything with Office 365? Welp, guess you gotta use Microsoft products now 🤷

I mean, work is work, you don’t get a choice in what product your company uses. My point was meant for personal use.

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

It feels like there needs to be a category in between conservative and paranoid. I’m probably 90% of the way over to tech paranoid but using Tor Browser and Tails is a little much.

Grats on Arch Linux install, S-tier distro for what it attempts to accomplish.

For some reason, the best word to describe it in my mind is “fun”. Just fun to learn and play with, fun to install, fun to configure and customize, and fun to daily drive. Definitely not fun when a random package update breaks your system (looking at you grub), but that hardly ever happens anymore provided you don’t enable the testing repo.

Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.

Also pacman is the fastest package manager I’ve ever used.

I hope you enabled parallel downloads, that makes it fast as fuck.

Apt is very quick as well (with the nala frontend), no complaints there. I’ve been running Arch for the past 5 years and recently switched to Debian Stable. The “grub event” was certainly notable, but otherwise I don’t think Arch is really that unstable or gimmicky. Arch itself is a very solid and dependable platform - the reason I decided to move is because I really don’t need the bleeding edge packages from other projects anymore. With Flatpaks and all the rest of the /home-based package managers that are around now, I can keep a stable base system and install a couple bleeding edge packages that I want, instead of being forced to run my entire system as bleeding edge (do my printer drivers really need to make me bleed?).

Overall, I’d say the Arch experience is as high quality as the Debian experience, they just target different usecases. Neither of them is better, it’s just up to the user how bloody they want their system to be.

Btrfs would beg to differ.

Is it really not that stable? I’m trying to switch from ext4 because of the built-in compression

Have you heard of our lord and saviour nixOS?

Somehow mkinitcpio broke my initramfs the other day when I installed the latest microcode updates. Took me like an hour to debug the issue and boot from the fallback 😑. That’s the first time I’ve had an issue like that though. I’ve been using arch for a few years now.

There is another version with two more tiers

Please tell me there aren’t two more tiers to the right of paranoid. The last tier would just be “homemade pencils only.”

There’s one either side!

Edit: also, I’m at “Newborn Paranoid” and definitely feeling the pull towards tech paranoid. Writing this on Librewolf in Arch (btw) lol.

Also the middle should be called Tech Centrist or Tech Social Democrat, daring to use the projects from philosophical minorities is not conservative at all.

Conservatives are always trying to make themselves seem “cool and different” like the middle guy in the meme. Being anticonsumerist, pro-privacy and pro individual liberty is far from actual conservative policy goals but they obviously have to pretend otherwise.

Conservative means “not extreme”

E.g. conservative estimates

Words can have multiple meanings - it might be best to find one that doesn’t have the same baggage that conservative has, such as “risk-averse”

Not extreme is rather moderate. Conservative estimate means there’s a tendency to not change what was estimated in the past. Moderate would mean that a small change would be accepted.

I use arch as my main disto with Firefox but use tails and tor for “purchases”

🏳️‍⚧️ Congratulations on coming out and I wish you a successful transition. 🏳️‍⚧️

worst username award 🏆

Ty I couldn’t have done it without real life inspiration to guide me.

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