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  • Lol using tails as a main OS. That’s something.

    • OS ? nah that's bloated and adds too much security flaws, true paranoids use UEFI programs

      • True paranoids don't use computers. They build a wooden cabin in northern Finland, grow their fish from FOSS genecode since other fishes have microplastic tracker chips inside them now, develop a supernatural sense to see "glowie" auras, and only talk in smoke signals feds do not understand (It runs on the Matrix protocol) all while following FSF philosophy

  • Tech conservative, although I have to admit that I like MacOS a lot. When it comes to Linux, I use and love Debian

  • I was newborn paranoid at one point, and am starting to shift back to tech conservative

  • I'm between newborn and tech paranoid. I run librewolf on gentoo

    • Same. Closer to tech paranoid for me I'd say. Only reason I don't run DWM + Gentoo anymore is because of time, but the control freak in me gets ever so tempted to reinstall it once again.

  • To be honest, Void doesn't belong in newborn paranoid. That distro is so so far from every other Linux distro regarding GNU philosophy. They're closer to the *BSD philosophy than anything else, but it doesn't fit nicely there as well. Generally, Void has this "if it passes all tests, we merge it" philosophy. It has a lot of proprietery software in the non-free repo.

    From what I've gathered so far, their point of view is, if it works, why not use it (which is also my point of view to be honest, so I'm absoluteley fine with that). They didn't even go dark with their sub on reddit. There was a post asking what will the Void sub do about the protest, that post got deleted. Bascially, they see the sub as a means to an end, nothing more. They don't have to run a forum for troubleshooting problems, it's free (as in beer) and it works just fine. They probably don't use any mod tools or very little (it's small sub), thus, this tjing doesn't affect them at all, so they see no reason to go dark.

    I'm not even a tech conservative, I use Linux cuz it's fun and challenging, plus you learn new things all the time. Those are my main resons. Sure I could do the same with *BSD, but it's got a lot less software and drivers, so I just stick to Linux (mostly).

  • I use Windows 10 but see myself in "The Tech Convervative" zone. I will eventually do the switch to Pop!_OS hopefully lol

  • Mix of newborn and tech paranoid. And i think i'm moving slowly to the paranoid side (started reading OpenBSD docs lol)

  • Tech conservative, with a bit of full-blown tech paranoid. I come across as a weird combination of tech-savvy and complete luddite for the laundry list of services I don't use. Not because they're proprietary, but because they offer me nothing I want.

    Disclaimer: I use Arch, btw.

  • Im probably somewhere between the first four panels. I’m debating about at least partly using Chromium again since some stuff I do doesn’t work on FF and like macOS and Windows the most since they (mostly) just work out of the box. However I’m not comfortable with WhatsApp etc, am using Ubuntu and Arch on some machines and do prefer Open source for some software categories. And for some stuff I’m manually checking the source code and am compiling it myself since I’m paranoid. (Mostly password manager and similar).

  • I remember there being one more version with TempleOS users at the end

  • i'm definetly newborn paranoid, but i actually belive opera and opera GX are great browsers nowdays

  • I'd probably fall into the Tech Paranoid if it weren't for gaming. I'm honestly rooting for Steam to jumpstart the Linux gaming ecosystem even more.

  • Lol last one is extremely funny. But I'm also probably covering the spectrum from "tech conservative" to "tech paranoid", ticking boxes of each of the three

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