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>Like the look of GDM as a DM>Pulls in Gnome Desktop as a dep so now I have a pointless session entry What do?
Do you trust Chinese software, like fastfetch? Sure it's open source but people love to hide obfuscated malware these days.
>>108942485America is the largest state sponsor of cyberterrorism by an order of magnitude. Do you trust software from America?
>>108942395For me, it's LUXIN.
>>108942500>America is the largest state sponsor of cyberterrorism by an order of magnitudeSource?>Do you trust software from America?Yeah, sometimes. If you look at the really authoritarian countries in the world, where the government has a lot of control over its citizens, those are the countries I'm most wary of.
>>108942528>Source?Look at the NSA's budget alone vs any known foreign intelligence budget, or even any foreign defense budget. Remember this is coincident with programs run by CIA, FBI, DHS, DoD, ...The only time I've ever come to grief from cyber-bullshit has been at the hands of the US government. They install backdoors on their own citizens (Angry Birds) and hoard vulnerabilities to the detriment of their citizens (Perfect Blue leaks).>authoritarian countriesLet's run down the checklist:>private propertyimminent domaincivil asset forfeituremoney printingAmerica status: authoritarian>bodily autonomyselective servicecontrolled substance lawsabortion lawsmandatory vaccinationAmerica status: authoritarian>free speechask julian assange
>>108942669Having a large budget doesn't necessarily mean you're participating in the most "cyberterrorism". Anyway, I don't love the US, but I trust them more than I trust China.
>>108942485I didn't know Fastfetch was Chinese but I use Ventoy to play with Linux ISOs
