Ah, so effectively the standard installation. Alright, thanks!

My general approach to this tends to be to identify what makes me happy in life, splurge on those, save on everything else. For example, I love computers, so I'd splurge on parts, but religiously meal prep to save on food.

It's such a shame though, since as far as I know, the EU have had such an amazing track record. I'd expect no less from big tech, but not the EU.

I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.

Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.

I only did a quick skim through the abstracts so I might miss some important details, but from what I can tell, they're all rare/one-off events. Sure, they exist, but the rate at which these vaccine injuries exist is eclipsed by that of Covid itself; there's a reason why the hospitals were overloaded by Covid and not vaccine injuries. The point is not that the vaccine is 100% safe, it's that the downsides of Covid far outweigh that of the vaccine (not to mention that, at least from what I understand, vaccine injuries are not contagious, unlike Covid, and hence you are protecting others who are immunocompromised). Tl:dr is that unlike what you see with the overloading of hospitals during covid, they have no problem handling a couple of vaccine injuries here and there.

Is GrapheneOS affected?

Oh yeah, you're right, I agree. My bad, didn't really think of that for a sec.

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.

Okay, that is pretty effective, but you would also swoop down to the same low as them. The police are known for unreasonable and excessive brutality, doing that would make you at the same level they are.

EDIT: You have convinced me and bought to my attention points that I didn't consider because I might have been too idealistic. Thank you for correcting me.

Only if you show me the aftermath

On a more serious note, though, while I do 100% that the "Thin Blue Line" is pure idiocy, I don't think that actually going out of your way to harass them (even if it is warranted) is in any way effective in convincing them otherwise and having them see reason. Same reasoning as with why many young boys these days fall down the alt-right rabbit hole and become a Tater Tot.

Isn't Russia being criticised for similar authoritarian practices despite them being white (at least the people in power, anyways)?

Okay, fair point, the argument I made wasn't exactly a good one. I do still think that hating authoritarianism isn't exactly xenophobia.

I mean as someone of Chinese descent who is repulsed by the Chinese government's actions despite them looking like me, I think my existence alone disproves your argument. I don't doubt that there are some people who do think like that, but I do doubt that they make up anywhere near a majority.

I find ZFS rollbacks to be easier but setting up ZFS can be a pain (other than in Gentoo and NixOS from my experience), so take your pick

Does ZFSBootMenu work with LUKS? If so, can anyone explain how I can get it to work with LUKS and systemd-boot please? I'm on Gentoo, if that matters.

Ah, a fellow Gentoo user, I see.

I use ZFS, not BTRFS, but both have snapshots, and if you're someone who likes to tinker with their system like me, it lets you do so without worrying that it will break.

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