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That’s fair, but come to think of it, the architecture of the CPU doesn’t really say anything about privacy. Someone can build an RISC-V chip but sneak in telemetry, or you can build yourself a x86_64 CPU and be 100% no telemetry. It’s about the manufacturer, not the architecture.

I don’t think you can ever be 100% sure that the CPU you’re running on is telemetry-free unless you have those kick-ass X-ray machines and examine it yourself. Building your trust on top of something else you deem trustworthy though, is practical. Billions of people are running Intel/AMD off-the-shelf CPUs, and there are perhaps millions specialists in them, what is the chance that a backdoor remains hidden?

The same goes for software. How do you know Linux kernel, OpenSSL, Wayland is trustworthy? Because many people use them, and it’s unlikely a backdoor is there. Think about the sheer amount of software the CPU runs. Don’t you think we shall have a greater concern there?

Hopefully this calms your paranoia about hardware a bit.

Check MakeMKV’s forum for drive models if your intention is to playback (with free software) or to backup.

Same to you. Happy holiday.

To be frank, not really. What’s so special about us Lemmings? I mean, so many other people brighter and more experienced than us have already shared. Whatever we said here can only be a subset to that at most, then why not just read the old threads.

No only OP provided almost no discussion value in the post body, but also this topic has been discussed one million times and nothing more can be talked about.

This is specific to Debian and Ubuntu so why not being more specific in the title?

If I were a maintainer, I will only take as many Karen behaviour as I take contribution.

Yes! I mean, don’t divert the hate of permissive license to Rust. Those are unrelated but now more people hate Rust because of this.

Go through LFS, but just read it, imagine packages being compiled.

Thanks. I cancelled my upvote.