There’s a huge warning especially for FP4 on the divestos installation page. Locking the bootloader was problematic on occasion so make sure to check whether it’s lockable before you lock it.

The phone’s stock operating system is signed with the public test keys from google though, so any security measure regarding that should be relatively easy to circumvent if you know how to sign your own OS.

When it became public yeah people protested some websites were even putting up warnings for Firefox users.

Brave is managed by Brendan Eich who had to leave Mozilla because he is a homophobe.

That and they have been doing some selfserving things with BAT to the point where I wouldn’t trust them even if BAT became something worthwhile or maybe even especially then.

I sync via WebDAV using DAVx5

I’ve been using Debian because it’s easy to use basically. But it’s no good for tinkering. It takes ages for packages to get moved into the stable channel and testing is exactly that and causes headaches. But if you want a stable and easy to use OS Debian is great. Set it up once and you’re set for a long time.

But I like to tinker so there is a clutter of packages I’ve installed but don’t use and I’ve lost track of them and the configs. It runs but needs cleaning up (again).

Which is why I’m going to switch to Guix. I’m hoping to replicate the same basic set up on my laptop and desktop with only minor differences. Guix allows the declaration of the entire system and if you use the same file it will always be set up exactly the same way. Plus the fact that I can roll back the entire system to a previous state sounds really appealing for someone who likes to break stuff. That said the declaration files and anything to do with Guix itself uses Lisp and as a lisp noob I’m expecting a lot of headaches and tabbing to the manual. Also package installation and so on seems rather unintuitive but the manual is well written and exhaustive. It’s more of an adventure for sure but the OS is stable and ready to use out of the box.

I love dual booting. If I need to quickly check mails or search the web linux launches in an instant. If I need to game I dont care about longer boot time anyhow.

If you plan on doing anything with linux fuck nvidia. It’s such a PITA. Biggest regret of my build.

Guix. It’s awesome to know exactly what I have installed and be able to replicate it on other machines.

He was moved by the speech Obama gave for him.

Oh is it lets-pick-some-idiots-and-pretend-all-Americans-are-like-this o’clock already?

Its not just that anytime I come across some RMS or Linux drama I know it’s going to be one crazy ride. Like the PID 1 war(s) for example. Or the time even Linus had to admit the kernel dev community had become toxic and he had been contributing to that.

Linux kernel drama is in a league of its own.