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.
Telegram being next to Signal is also questionable.
You forgot “Only uses 10+ year old librebooted Thinkpad” on tech paranoid
whats librebooted mean
Replacing the bootloader with a FOSS bootloader called LibreBoot
why would you even do that, forgive my ignorance
If you want to disable Intel Management Engine, the always-on backdoor built into every Intel CPU and/or want as much software as possible on your machine to be FOSS
Also it boots much faster than most stock bios.
Is there a similar issue with AMD?
Not that I know of, AMD is also soon going to make their own FOSS bios with OpenSIL so they’re generally the better option if you’re a privacy/libre software junkie.
As far as I know, OpenSIL stands for Open Silicon Initialization Library, and handles only the hardware initialisation part of the boot process. It may still require loading binary blobs like the Platform Security Processor (PSP), which is AMD’s version of Intel Management Engine
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.
Same
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.
I use arch as my main disto with Firefox but use tails and tor for “purchases”
You’ll learn pretty soon that the really cool kids are running zOS
What does MKBHD have to do with this? He’s just a tech reviewer who kinda fits between tech normie and tech conservative
He’s the kind of guy that looks at a Fairphone and says “if you compare this to a Pixel, the Pixel is faster”, talks about how important repairability and sustainability is, vows to mention it in future phone reviews and then proceeds to never mention it ever again but instead keeps on saying how great the new iPhone is.
I’m not kidding: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkmzDwgvqQM
And he mostly talks about phones anyway… hardly relevant to the avg pc enthusiast as he only covers macbooks and not their competition, which is silly.
i am litterally a 100% match with conservative wtf did you hack me (except I use XMPP for phone service, JMP.Chat is an amazing thing!)
Could I reach people using WhatsApp with this?
From memory you can, but that may have changed, there is a useful page ok their wiki that keeps track of all services that work and refuse to work with them since they use VoIP numbers and some companies refused to accept them
What if my favorite OS is Mac, my favorite browser is Firefox, and my favorite app is self hosted?
It means you’re Tim Cook’s mistress
I use ms edge on linux. Evil laugh
Conservative is the wrong word there
Not really. People who use the apps are trying to preserve (conserve) the time when privacy wasn’t an afterthought. It’s not working, but they’re sure trying.
🏳️⚧️ 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.
bruh
I feel like WhatsApp should be in the middle. The app is terrible, but the messaging is actually encrypted. We paranoids also appreciate Signal, and Element disappointingly gets no play here.
Also:
*believes not every company is inherently evil*
It’s kind of weird, then, how they all end up doing evil stuff, including the guys that explicitly set out with the philosophy “don’t be evil”.
We can all tell conservative is supposed to be the enlightened one, but unless the creator is using a very malice-driven definition of evil (as opposed to including accidental evil) this line is an own-goal.
