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• Maryland will hand out 133,000 Chromebooks to the public

  > a vendor locked in Chromebook Choose your poison. Macbooks are tightly knit with Apple and phone home, but are absurdly expensive and people pay for the privilege of getting spied on. Same with Chromebooks: we're just another datapoint for Google, and much more data is collected. Why not hand out Thinkpads flashed with Trisquel Linux[0]? (A Libre Linux that respects privacy?). And don't get me started on Windows... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• What's your take on privacy focused services?

  Not a 'service' but Trisquel OS is a fully freedom-respecting and privacy-aware distro, and has no telemetry or phoning home. Source: 11 months ago

• Returning my ReMarkable 2

  I don't own a cell phone and my computer is entirely free, its BIOS replaced with libreboot running Trisquel, a 100% free-software operating system. Others can do this, too, if they really want the freedom. It is not hard, nor does it require expertise. It only requires the will to do it. Source: 11 months ago

• I like Ubuntu but not it's telemetry, any recomendations for distro?

  There's Trisquel, which is a GNU approved distro based on Ubuntu with all the non-free stuff removed. Otherwise I'd suggest something Debian or Devuan based, like MX Linux or Refracta. Source: about 1 year ago

• What do you think are the biggest issues the Linux desktop has?

  =This reply was made using my Thinkpad R61irunning Trisquel GNU+Linux-Libre=. Source: over 1 year ago

• Hey wait a minute

  You can use the GNU userland (which was always designed to be portable) with one of the GNU kernels, and have the GNU OS. Some people have already done it. Source: over 1 year ago

• An Elegy for GNU and RMS

  > RMS is nothing if not a man of principle. He really, truly believes in his ideas of software freedom in a way that I really do think very few people believe in anything these days The thing is, RMS is also a free software extremist in ways. He uses free software exclusively. Hard to imagine living that way. At some point you will have to interact with Windows in our modern world, or interact with other... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• FIGHT ME!!!!!!!!

  Your choice of distro is righteous. https://trisquel.info/ is a truly Free distro and that's definitely not an easy thing to make. Everyone should try it at least once and help those folks out if they can. Source: over 1 year ago

• Should I upgrade to windows 11?

  Install https://trisquel.info/ alongside Windows as your personal daily driver. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Librebooting Thinkpad T500, Help

  You need to check your hardware and of course install a new operating system. I suggest Trisquel for beginners. Here is their official website: https://trisquel.info . Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How to secure sensitive operations (cyber security)

  > and my approach is to not install any closed source software. Install Trisquel[0] and only run trusted applications on it. Trisquel ships with /no/ proprietary software and is 'deblobbed' of any closed source software. You even have to buy special 'libre' wifi adapters for it if you want a wireless connection. Vanilla ethernet works well on it though. [0] https://trisquel.info/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• VSCode deprecates Enable Telemetry, auto-enrolls you in Telemetry

  Well, for Windows there is https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 to help manage telemetry and other settings, though the OS resets certain user choices after updates. Though, if possible, consider using GNU/Linux whenever possible - distros like Debian have historically had little controversies around them, even package popularity metrics are presented as a choice to you during install time as a clear choice:... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Why are governments and administrations NOT moving to Linux?

  There was a time when every region of Spain had its own Linux distro. Most have been discontinued, but amongs the ones that are not is Trisquel GNU/Linux-libre, used by Stallman. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Looking for privacy oriented, lightwieght, simple to use distro for Macbook Air

  MX Linux (essentially Debian+KDE or Debian+XFCE) is a good option. If you want a truly "libre" distribution, there is Trisquel (Ubuntu-based), Parabola GNU/Linux (Arch-based) or EXE GNU/Linux (Debian-based). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Day 1 - Accessing your server

  I am SSHing into a Digital Ocean VM from Trisquel GNU/Linux and Mobian devices. I deployed the droplet with doctl. Source: almost 3 years ago