I treat my computer as a tool, not as an ideology. There's good FOSS and there's bad FOSS. There's good proprietary and there's bad proprietary. If I were to autistically focus whether or not every single piece of the software on my machine is FOSS.
That's just schizophrenic, there are satellites and city CCTV watching you 24/7, better never go out because the CIA niggers constantly spy on you. You can't achieve 100% privacy in the modern world and you shouldn't aim to obtain it by using objectively inferior FOSS alternatives, because yes, those do exist. LibreOffice will never replace MS Office for example. You gotta make compromises and stop being so schizophrenic about "winkike" and "CIA nigger malware".
Here, have you manually compiled every single dependency on your GNU/Linux machine? Have you manually reviewed every single line of it to make sure it's all safe? No? You just installed precompiled binaries because you trust them? What if some other dependency has a backdoor like the XZ one but no one noticed it yet? Have fun with your schizophrenia. Nothing is safe, nothing is private. Stop focusing all of your mental capacity into it if you don't want to go insane.
However one thing is clear. Ring 0 anticheat is trash, and if you willingly play a game that relies on it you're a fucking nigger.
i treat my computer as a tool as well, and as my personal digital slave it has to do everything exactly as i tell it to, without refusing, arguing, doing something else, or doing things i didn't ask for without even telling me.
free software is exactly that, either the user controls the program or the program controls the user, it's inevitably one or the other in 100% of all cases, and those who control the programs, automatically control the users (*useds) and "their" computers along with it.
i don't want some company to throw shitty proprietary firmware into my kernel or shove spyware/ads/whatever down my throat, i'm the only person who controls my computer, and i decide what happens on it.
also, "foss" stands for "free and open sores", which is funny because "open sores" conflicts with free software. free software by definition means giving the end users freedom to do whatever they want and not getting in their way with other gay shit like popups telling them "no you can't do this because we said so!", but in the meantime "open sores" does shit like this, or even worse, it has most or only some of the code publicly available, and the important parts are all proprietary
take a look at polyMC for an example of the first case, or NOVIDEO GPU drivers (the 'open sores' ones) for the second.
here is "open sores" firmware
https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-...data_kgspGetBinArchiveBooterLoadUcode_GA100.c
and the attached image is PolyMC, which is an "open sores" minecraft launcher
of course "you can just take it out and edit the code, then recompile it

", but not everyone knows how to program, or specifically how to write C++ code, or where this part of the code even is.
let alone having to actually figure out how to make it compile afterwards because C++ loves to spit out random errors as a joke and doesn't tell you what the problem is, it's the woman of programming languages.
and about CCTVs (whatever that is, had to look it up because i'm not american, apparently it means surveillance cameras), there are none in my country other than for big stores (inside only) because filming other people without their consent in public places (that means anywhere other than on your own private property) is illegal here. don't enter someone's store or home and you can't be legally filmed, it's literally that easy.
satellites can't film me either because my home is under trees, i very rarely visit any cities and everything around me is either forest, water, or farmland.
>oy vey don't even try, you will never succeed goy
i already have.
"fuss" is objectively and practically inferior to free software, and proprietary software is objectively (and practically) inferior to anything else
libreoffice has already replaced microshaft office in a lot of places, nearly all schools in my country use it (if they do use computers at all because krauts hate digitalizing everything), most states have moved their government offices and everything else such as medical applications to GNU/Linux, and windoze only holds a small market share here in general because people aren't mentally retarded like in america.
i DO manually compile pretty much everything on my GNU systems, and everything on them (including my fucking boot firmware) is free software. i don't have a single proprietary piece of code, other than the silicon itself that was cursed by jewish kabbalah magic spells in intel's chip fab.
>xz
i would've noticed it because i actually monitor my shit, but it didn't affect gentoo so it went undetected, since there was no backdoor (at least for gentoo, archlinux, or anything based on those) to begin with. this was a RHEL/debian only thing.
i don't install pre compiled binaries of anything and i don't trust anything either, the only thing i use binaries for is checking if they are reproducible so i can save time on bloated rust troonware because it takes ages to compile, because it's designed to prevent end users from compiling it by themselves.
>if you willingly use rootkit anticheat you're a nigger
exactly. people who willingly use proprietary software are brown and smell like the loo, but anyone who knowingly and willingly uses rootkits like that is just a plain and total nigger.