Guess you wanna maintain your own patchset then? Because that’s what freedom takes - building on the shoulders of giants and corpos, but also scrubbing the spyware off down into the kernel.

The problem is that if the government is able to tell open source developers “YOU MUST INSERT THIS CODE OR ELSE!!!” then what’s next?

What’s next is that code gets a build flag that’s turned off in the makefile, and maintainers have to explicitly turn it on for that code to compile in. Distros maintain patches that add this sort of thing all the time, even if upstream refuses to do so.

And Debian is saying that, as a non-profit, all volunteer org? This bullshit doesn’t apply to them. They are building a legal basis for the makefile solution I’m describing above, and its default-off state in their repositories.

All of your catastrophising can be addressed this way. We need devs like you who can help make sure this solution is implemented exactly as described.

Debian repos are great - we can even blacklist official repos and replace them with bare, sketchy IP addresses if we like, and share binaries through them.

You cannot stop the signal. Quit thinking like a voter trapped in a Fascist hellscape, and start thinking like a hacker that the state cannot outmaneuver.

Real vulnerability or hallucinated?

Funny, did we see the same video?

I saw a guy who recently switched to Linux do an “April Fools” as an excuse to complain about Windows more, and explain why he’s sticking with Linux.

“Even with the help of AI”

I see you’re just shitposting.

Muta is a basic dudebro. Is he good at technology? No. Is he a good baseline for “can most people do it?” Almost, yeah. And that’s what his video is actually about if you bothered to watch it.

Unless you have some Niche webcam or hardware MIDI controller, just about everything is supported out of the box. Unless you wanna dive into Gentoo to start? Its surprisingly simple here.

For deep customizations? There’s manuals. There’s guides where you can do the advanced Gentoo-stuff in the terminal by just copying-and-pasting without a clue what you’re doing or why.

The community is something to be proud of - what we’ve built, what we’ve made.

We’re still working on audio composition type stuff for DJs, but we’ve come a long way. The free stuff you want works better here, and even Photoshop runs great in WINE.