@kirby >sometimes I dodge bullets by using bsd occasionally
While you think you're dodging bullets, you're dodging into them, considering that every last BSD is proprietary software currently.

@icedquinn >almost everything in your computer has proprietary firmware and there is little to nothing you can do about it.
So I should immediately give up?

A lot of the peripheral software can be replaced via difficult reverse engineering and a hardware flasher, so there's more than a little that you can do about it, but I have bigger issues to deal with first.