That’s not how that works. See, companies make huge donations to political parties to ensure they have them covered and that the full extent of “the law” is executed upon anyone who enfringes THEIR rights.

A license is only as strong as the legal system and the courts that uphold them.

It’s meaningless if they don’t care. And that’s increasingly what we’re seeing in the US.

I’m increasingly seeing ads about Canadian cloud hosting services. I just hope companies stat to look at local solutions seriously.

I… I didn’t even know there were so many.

Hell, just talking about teams in Teams is confusing enough.

What you could do is set up a chroot jail and use debootstrap to create a bootstrap system. Then put the sources.list for Debian Sid and run apt install kde-plasma-desktop

Mount /proc and /dev in the chroot jail.

Then go to a text terminal (alt-f3) and stop your login manager service.

Chroot into your debian sid chroot and start the x server with start (I think)

These steps might not work but it’s kind of a roadmap of how i would do it.

I just use Kubuntu and stop worrying.

You wish. It’s not gonna happen with these douchebags in power.

They also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.

I ALREADY DO GOD DAMMIT! (Seriously I have pen pals. I write letters every year. I’m actually late and need to write them!)

It’s like a Honda Civic. It’s just reliable and easy to maintain with good performance and some good features and some you don’t really want but are still practical. And there’s a big community giving lots of support and documentation to tweak it if you want more out of it.

Honestly, just install Kubuntu 24.04. Install it and forget it. It’s super stable and has great support. Whatever people argue about the Snap packaging system, that will be almost invisible to you as the end user.

Honestly, even if I don’t like Snaps that much, Ubuntu/Kubuntu ain’t so bad after all. I’ve been running it as a daily for months now on my Linux-only gaming PC and it’s working quite well. There’s good support for proprietary drivers and media codecs out of the box.

And personally, I’d advise on using the Kubuntu version because KDE is so much closer in terms of desktop paradigm than Gnome.

And Fedora ain’t bad either.

That’s why I just upgraded my subscription to Proton. (YES I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE DRAMA WITH THEIR CEO!!! AT LEAST THEY’RE NOT SELLING AI SERVICES TO MILITARY CONTRACTORS, DOING MASS SURVEILLANCE OR SELLING MY FUCKING DATA!)

Is that tinfoil hat comfortable?

That’s an uninformed statement.

You get to pick your provider. So pick one that you trust.

It’s FAR better than without as your ISP is probably selling your traffic to third parties or at least monitoring it. Some VPNs don’t.

Tor over VPN

Use a VPN. Problem solved.

This is dystopian level privacy nightmare.

Well yeah. That’s what I’m doing.