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Iirc, the list is of operating systems that the FSF recommends. You could have a system running 100% free software, but the FSF won't recommend it if the distro makes it easy to theoretically install proprietary code. It's fine to run such a system, but the FSF won't recommend it.

I respect how OpenBSD seems to work. Like "we do this for ourselves, but if you want to use our software, go ahead, we don't mind (or care)".

Steve, I just read this whole exchange between you and the other person, and I just want you to know that it was beautiful. You are the kind of person that we need for the public discourse and democracy to work.

My family will never ditch proprietary apps. It's either me having to have a complicated setup with multiple phones or profiles in grapheneos to talk to them, or being able to use a third-party app I can be ok with having on my main phone. Even if our communication is not private, I'd love to be able to just not have whatsapp installed in any way. That would be good for me.

In my work I've been around many things that can be considered gross. Cutting away dead flesh around a bed sore that's a big rotting hole into the body, a woman eating her own feces like a mars bar, etc. One time I slipped and fell into a puddle that was a mix of edema fluids leaking through the skin, and urine. After a while you get desensitized, and it's just... matter. Atoms. I saw this woman who fell and her head went into the ground hard and blood just pumped out of her head into her long hair, it was like one big lump of hair that soaked up the blood, she lived for a day after that and I held her hand when she died. It's a strange thing to be around dying people all the time, I'm not sure if I've made peace with it or if I'm broken in some way.

I nominated GrapheneOS and also Proton themselves to finally have resources to work on their Linux clients.

The decentralization is the new and interesting aspect. If that doesn't matter to you then lemmy might not offer what you're looking for.

My banking apps just work(tm) without any work or fiddling. (Sweden) You can have a separate space for apps that need google play and all that and it has no access to your private data.

I have a swedish keyboard because I am swedish, we have three extra letters compared to the english alphabet. Which means that the standard swedish keyboard layout had to tuck away some symbols into very awkward places using AltGr to type. Programming and using Vim is a bad experience with a swedish keyboard imho.

A narrative? Like, "Not only am I naked, I'm on my way to... water the plants. They are thirsty, and so am I... In the background, dimly lit, you can see an ESP32 microcontroller... yup, that's the kind of guy I am... oh my, I can do pulse width modulation with my bare hands..."

Could it be that desktop usage in general has gone down? That people use their phones and tablets for browsing and similar tasks. Then Linux would have a bigger share, but maybe not because there are more users.