Yeah, I left windows because 8 was:

A: ugly

B: When I got the 8.1 upgrade, I became heavily suspicious due to the ram increase by 3X!

C: Someone I knew said that they were in an ibm meeting and asked if windows had a backdoor and everyone was silent!

That's what drove me to linux.

Although, if I had a choice between redhat's garbage and proprietary software pure and simple.

I would probably be hard pressed, but still pick the redhat method. Thankfully, I don't need to though!

Good lord is that a relief.

Although linux is starting to get ugly with their desktop environments.

Only one I would ever tolerate now is Lumina Desktop.

The others are just too bloated. Even LXDE or XFCE4. I realize now they were not my style.

Hyperbola, Devuan, OpenBSD are my primary options as of now for operating systems. Unless I am desperate in which case, I will use Trisquel as a last resort.

That would be the systemd distro I trust most. But thats such a low bar to clear for me.

@The-Amnesiac-Philospher Okay dude, that one is my favourite so far...

man... that one makes me smile.

I haven't felt such amusement since seeing the ending of A Night of Fright is No Delight.

Hint:   The person leaves a will for his heirs, but even after death the heirs get trolled hard by that same will.

@golinux despite by failings and rants sometimes, I am smart enough to agree with you there.

There are many examples even outside of politics, but I will be vague otherwise it becomes a rant to you.

Yeah, maturity is not a number.

Btw, didn't see this new code of conduct whenever you made it. I apologize.

Edit: I seem to have not noticed this happened in 2016. I wish I had looked, must have happened when I wasn't looking.

@quickfur Europe has the best structure towards copyright of the ones that enforce it. Now I will shut up too, feel free to pm me if you wish to talk more. lol

Let me see... if I have a choice between xorg and wayland, which would I choose...

Preferably, neither and xenocara. Otherwise, xorg.

wayland shouldn't be adopted by nearly every other distro in the world until it is just as stable even if it is more secure.

At least by stable distros anyways, yet here we are.

Actually, I think I found out why I kept failing... I forgot to make an unused partition with 30MB

Lots of groaners, but whenever I want one, I will come here for them.

Yeah, discourse is a pile of horse crap. Although, javascript never was a good idea to use for the web anyhow.

The creators of discourse and webcomponents, are trying to solve a problem they created. No one should program anything like the web with any programming languages that are bloated or screwed up. Actually, EDIT: not merely screwed up, SCREWED UP on MULTIPLE levels!

lol.

Seems I missed some fun threads with a bunch of nonsense...

Damn, lol.

Btw, I don't see a reason to completely ban him, he was probably just way too high on coke when he was posting lately.

Then again, I will also say it is not my choice. Just my two cents.

If you do support arm sooner than later and it works well enough, I could potentially install on my rockpro64!

The discourse websites, such as nitrokey's forum or, mnt research forum, the creators of the mnt reform design anotherwords.

https://community.mnt.re/

https://support.nitrokey.com/

You may notice the your web browser isn't up to date nonsense and how you need to upgrade to browse happy bs.

There are fixes for some of those websites. It requires modify http response and specific filters such as this:

[["/^/",["/browser-detect-/",["/.*/g",""]],["/^\\/assets\\/discourse-[0-9a-f]{4}/",["(.d-modal-legacy\"","(.d-modal-legacy)\"","document.execCommand(\"insertText\",!1,","this._textarea.setRangeText("]]]]

Palemoon forums users have figured this out, which is awesome.

Blobbed device? Perhaps, but I got it because its 7 inch ARM64 modular device.

Its no more blobbed in my opinion then anything else on the market, much less actually.

I don't agree with FSF's standards on what constitutes RYF.

And actually, more specifically, it should be RYP

Respects Your Privacy

Another words, there is no device that respects freedom 100% out there, probably never will be. 95%? Maybe... but microcode always exists in a system to some extent.
It just ain't feasible and people should accept it. RYP however would work.

Disabling the network stack of backdoors? Possible, example intel me from gen 3-12. Not sure about gen 13+

Disabling all non-free aspects replacing with new code? That isn't possible... without breaking the law.

I am not assuming he will support ARM64. It was a request. If it doesn't happen, meh w/e.

I just asked in case he would be open to it.

Although, its possible Risc-V, Openpower Microwatt and Openpower Libre-Soc will be easier to support in the ultra long term.

No idea tho.

But yeah, basically privacy can be achievable if coreboot like bios and network stack backdoor issues can be disabled.  Otherwise, no.