Weekly Megathread 3: Privacy, or why I wear a tinfoil hat :foucault-madness:

This week's question/topic is why does privacy matter to you as a leftist?

Please use this as a place for general discussion about free software, as well as a place to ask for help or tech support with FOSS.

:curious-marx: What is free software?

Free or "libre" software is defined as software that gives you, the user, the freedom to share, study, and modify it. We call this free software because the user is free.

:volcel-judge: Stop using proprietary software!

With proprietary software nobody knows what's going on under the hood.

:cia: and friends have a much easier time sneaking :sus-deep: garbage in. Consider the following replacements for non-free software:

:LIB:erate your life, :LIB:!

Tell use which software you can't find a libre alternative to, and we'll help you out.

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    • thisismyrealname [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      the raspberry pi 400 seems like it would fit your needs pretty well. if you're looking for a bit more horsepower than a pi has there are a lot of other SBC options, like the Rock64, LattePanda (they advertise Win10 but you can put Linux on them like any other computer), and others. i only have experience with the pi's though.

      note that you wouldn't get the same UI or experience on any of these as you would on a chromebook, but you can do the same things (web browsing, document editing, etc.)