You say that like they ever do things the right way, even a fair chunk of the proposals I see for Linux take it out of the user’s hands.

I already nuked my hard drive and went to Debian when Microslop kept trying to force me to “update” my local account and turned their creepy AI stuff back on again and again no matter how many times I dug in with PowerShell to shut it off.

We’re going to be running a fork not licensed for use in the US or Europe soon enough, or bowing to surveillance and de-anonymization. Or maybe go back to legacy systems, like dumping systemd and wayland for init and x11, just to have things actually work for us again rather than embrace the ever-present creep of the “Framework of Fuckery” ™ that is being pushed by the corpo scum and their pet “Representatives.”

The rules have always been for us, not for them.

The police are enforcers for the elites, they don’t stop crime, they extract fines from people and provide a deterrent to anyone standing up for themselves.

A lot of places are making incomplete web versions, or outright cutting access outside of the app, they all want that sweet sweet spyware in your pocket.

Except it’s more ZuckID, since Meta was behind the “grassroots” campaigns and wrote the script “representatives” are using globally.

The models were made to be run locally on your own data, let the corpos in and they’ll find a way to destroy the world, screw the people, and add eshitification to literally everything.

Tuta is much better than proton, but I’m finding Germany to be more than a bit sus lately, too.

I need to find a provider in Iceland or something, where there’s still a bit of respect for actual people.

I do say Lineage, but not MicroG, I’ve found that nothing that used it still works after the Verified Device API was implemented and everyone dropped support for older Android versions.

I was using an old Note 8, with stock Android on it, just for the stuff like banking apps and my coffee discount but the very last of them “updated” to break last week so ALL the Evil Empire is for the bin.

Sadly the Sailfish phones tend to be very outdated on their Android compatibility, and with the new Verified Device API from Google even Graphene is having issues and the only two Play Store apps I still used have quit working on Lineage.

The thing is you could still load an AZW file on it…

But they stopped letting you load content over USB last year.

See, incest is what they hit on Steam, too.

I don’t get it, despite finding this to be pretty disgusting myself, with all the horrible things happening they focus on fantasy while pretending reality is not so much more vile.

Would be nice, I think I might be able to flee there, having Iceland be the best bet isn’t so good with how expensive it is and how little opportunity is there.

Honestly, I prefer someone else’s untrustworthy.

I don’t trust China at all, but I trust them over the US, if only because they have no stake in me as a foreigner.

Watching all the new laws spew out in Europe I don’t trust them, either.

I’m down to Romania and Iceland, now.

Been dumping German stuff like a plague lately, and already pulled all data out of Canada.

I have one thing in Amsterdam, but their laws have been getting worse and worse, and they’re… Nine, I think it is, eyes which is bad for trusting them with your data. Even Switzerland is getting sus af.

I don’t think they believe him so much as they believe the propaganda about any competition to him.

It’s been “Elect this shitty person because they are not that shittier person!” on both sides my whole life, and without ranked choice voting being national people will always pick the one their echo chamber calls a savior from the “other” they’ve been filled with fear over ignoring any decent option.

He ticks all the boxes.

There is no left wing, anymore.

I mean looks at Carney in Canada…

Here in the US you have AOC and Bernie both supporting Israel during an active genocide. Not really in-line with their alleged allegiances, is it?