you understand that you can still use x11 with KDE or gnome right?

other countries rely on the US because the US uses military intervention and economic sanctions to ensure everyone has to rely on them. this is not difficult to understand

selinux is one example.

do some research or something jesus lmao. Linux servers, on average, are much higher profile entities to target, typically has more eyes watching them for problems, and technically literate people administrating them. meanwhile your typical windows machine is used by non technical, every day users who do very little proper security practices and threat mitigations.

you get a better ROI targeting windows users than you do, Linux users. it’s really not difficult to understand

this owes to the fact that windows simply has exponentially more users and is therefore more valuable to target.

this idea lies on a complete misunderstanding. Linux, without extensive hardening efforts, is ootb much more insecure than either Windows or macos

what do you mean you claim “more secure” here? secure in comparison to what, exactly?

there was no comparison between the cost of hosting. it was simply used as a baseline relative to market norms. your insistent on there being malicious actions taken is so odd

semantics

Hamas isn’t performing genocidal acts nor have they said they would. this comment holds racist sentiments.

the Israeli state needs to be dismantled and power returned to the Palestinian people. Israel is nothing more than a European colonizer project with the goal of genocide towards Palestinians fueled by western antisemitic sentiment.

fuck off isn’t really an insult.

some carriers do but Google runs their own as well because carriers were slow to adopt.

a better solution than giving blanket root access would be an API/daemon that provides more fine grained permission control, similar to how flatseal manages the flatpak sandbox.

edit: anyone wanna help me on a new project idea…?

well sure, for customisation sake there is plenty benefit. the security concerns are more plentiful, however

one of the reasons I use nix package manager is because it doesn’t require root. it has separate build users and a daemon responsible for privileged file management. I also have a separate user with access if I absolutely need it, or I can log in with a live session and chroot into my system.

if you need root for a general purpose application then it’s badly designed

you can’t lock your bootloader and retain access for one. that’s an easy way to brick your device. it cripples security because in order to gain this access you are patching in the sudo binary (which doesn’t normally exist on Android and is therefore not designed to be securely used) and a bunch of selinux policies that give extremely vague permissions systemwide. data exfiltration is made a much simpler task when a user has rooted their device.

it is also increasing attack surface. you now have to trust that this per app permission model is actually functioning correctly and isn’t exploitable.

edit: it is worth noting that having root access on a desktop Linux system is horribly insecure as well, though. I completely remove sudo on my systems (although considering one can just invoke su -c or su - root that doesn’t help too much in actuality)

rooting cripples your security and there is little benefit to it.

what exactly is your issue with cloudflare, I suppose I’ll ask

I’m starting to think some of y’all don’t know what a walled garden is. just saw someone on mastodon refer to signal as a walled garden.