It's popular idea for a lot of innovation focused groups tbh. "If I have the people what they asked for I would have given them faster horses." -Henry Ford

And to a certain degree there is truth to it.

I disabled shorts and went through my front page and said to not show me stupid addictive content and then also took two weeks off. I also used libredirect addon on Firefox to redirect all YouTube links to inviduos so that if a link somewhere took me there I didn't get sucked right back.

That because being perfectly anonymous against all of the most advanced actors is near impossible that it's not worth it. Every step taken DOES help reduce the amount of info out there on you and the amount of parties that have access to it. Not only that every step you take helps those around you too.

I'm not going to lie but I've been playing around with a VDI setup for internet cafes. Let's you use servers that places are liquidating in the back, but cheaper thinclient/zero client at the actual desks. Also helps reduce user damage and theft where that is a concern (can't tell you how many IT tickets I've worked because of people kicking cables).

Had a company that would check for installed hardware hacks on burner phones after visting China because of past experiences.

I've described it as cost flexible, because you should be funding or ensure developers are funded to a level appropriate level of risk to operations if a vulnerability is discovered or a critical failure prevents a correct operation.

That's for big business and governments at least. Small businesses also has the same concerns but the risk matrix for them is just different.

My current KDE Wayland exp is also no great, but I have an older Nvidia GPU too.

| the core products have been open source

They have been pushing more of the distribution into their proprietary app store format despite what the community says about it

Hopefully countries looking for data sovereignty but also want to use generative AI start looking to using them for this before the company dries up and proprietary AI running only in US data centers become the state of the art and defacto place to go.

I mean, how long has it taken for cloud offerings to start to catch up to AWS.

Beauty of FOSS

In order of trust I put it third for browsers that I expect to work with most of the internet. It goes Tor, Firefox, and finally Brave. I like Brave's direction and appreciate them trying to find ethical and sustainable funding models, but they're just not as heavily audited as the first two

I don't trust VPNs that I don't run, Tor is the answer here for me too. Search I am not sure how it compares to DDG tbh so no idea

In terms of level of trust, it's enough for a threat model that doesn't include state actors or any other APT, but nothing more. it shouldn't be ran with elevated privileges and should be sandboxed (i.e. flatpak) and if possible on a separate system from sensitive information. I could be convinced otherwise but I haven't seen a reputable organization discuss an audit of it's code nor have I audited it's code

Open standard CPU instruction set. Meaning people can design new chips for it without needing to enter an expensive license agreement.