Many people don't even know what continent they live on and you expect them to switch web browsers?
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Mintest, after only just (*inhales)
13 YEARS
finally rebranded to... something starting with "Lua". And I already forget the rest of the name because FOSS people suck at naming.
And I only even remembered the first part because I had once written mods in Lua, Mintest's scripting language of choice. Good luck for name recognition with anybody else.
The same country that has mobile euthanasia vans?
Is the part about being able to socialize also a mythic fantasy? Where ever do people work that they find the time to have conversations?
Literally everyone that "threatens" to "switch to linux":
Hey look, an article documenting 2020!
I'll assume that Loongson are equally as backdoored, but by Chinese intelligence rather than US intelligence.
RISC-V and OpenPOWER are the last remaining non-user-hostile ISAs. That and possibly old x86.
Social inertia and an extra helping of users hate having to learn things.
The CSAC also accused Intel of embedding a backdoor “in almost all” of its CPUs since 2008
Hmmm They couldn't be referring to the extensively researched, reverse-engineered, and years-documented Intel Management Engine, could they?
CSAC is only just now coming across this information? Better late than never, I guess.
Edit: Having now finished the article, yes they are.
YaCy self-hostable search engine kind of has this feature and architecture by way of a DHT inter-peer search, in combination with local page caching. Although the caching feature is something that a node operator needs to manually enable.
A much better resource for choosing non-hostile hardware: https://12bytes.org/alttech/#SHOPPING