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   𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sallynull@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 21:56:04 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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   @Suiseiseki
   
   What distribution you're using? Parabola, Guix, Trisquel...?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 21:56:04 JST 翠星石

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     @sallyNULL Gentoo-libre GNU/Linux-libre.
     
     They keep adding proprietary malware and mislabeling it with the wrong LICENSE, but try as they might, they can't get me.
     
     Trisquel is okay for short term usage (i.e. a live system), but systemd just isn't usable.
     
     
     I've determined that the only real way forward would be to install GNU Guix, but it currently lacks the crucial feature of something similar to USE flags - but at this rate I'd need to add such functionality myself.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 22:56:45 JST 翠星石

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     @sallyNULL It's beyond complacency - the debian netinst .iso now contains 216MiB of proprietary malware.
     
     https://www.debian.org/ --> "The Operating System" --> "Debian is a complete Free Operating System!", okay, sounds good, let's check that --> https://www.debian.org/download --> https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso
     
     7z x debian-12.0.0-amd64-netinst.iso && cd pool/non-free-firmware && du -h:
     
     720K ./d/dahdi-firmware
     724K ./d
     4.6M ./r/raspi-firmware
     24K ./r/rtl8723bt-firmware
     4.7M ./r
     120K ./a/amd64-microcode
     148K ./a/atmel-firmware
     272K ./a
     40M ./n/nvidia-graphics-drivers
     40M ./n/nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla
     79M ./n
     188K ./b/bluez-firmware
     192K ./b
     16K ./f/firmware-ast
     604K ./f/firmware-sof
     125M ./f/firmware-nonfree
     126M ./f
     20K ./z/zd1211-firmware
     24K ./z
     5.9M ./i/intel-microcode
     5.9M ./i
     216M .
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     𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙 (sallynull@gleasonator.com)'s status on Sunday, 11-Jun-2023 22:56:46 JST 𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙𝅙

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     @Suiseiseki
     
     I'm in a similar situation with Debian unstable, and I'm getting tired of their complacency on nonfree firmware, so I've been thinking of moving to Parabola for desktop.