They are definitely both pretty terrible, pick your poison I guess. Apple will gouge your eyes out with overpriced hardware and Alphabet (Google) will spy and you and sell your data. I don't like either, but faced with the choice I'd rather pay more for my phone and avoid Google's surveillance capitalism empire as much as possible. If you don't mind advertisements and privacy isn't important Google is probably a better choice.

Ended my donations to Signal after discovering they choose Google Hosting Services over open source and privacy respecting alternatives.

Are you saying MK ULTRA is just a conspiracy theory and never happened? I've watched documentaries on PBS, BBC and the History Channel. Clearly the program existed, as for what clandestine operations it ran, that's certainly loaded with conspiracy theories.

If everything is a conspiracy theory, nothing is a conspiracy theory.

https://www.history.com/topics/us-government-and-politics/history-of-mk-ultra

Google Videos was an alternative to Youtube in the early days, but since Google is too greedy to invest in innovation, it just buys it's competitors, so we don't see them unless we consider community alternatives that can't be bought by Alphabet like Peertube.

Libertarianism is a broad ideology that means different things depending on who you ask. The notion that an authoritarian government can be controlled by billionaires and corporations is certainly viable. Undermining those forces and resisting their control by by not paying for content and controlling your access to said content by having your media library is exercising personal liberty.

The comment I made was quite nuanced and I mentioned that I'm personally more inclined to socialism and liberal views, but hopefully not too ideological that I can't see value in different ideas.

Sorry for the n00b question, but what does the =n,b stand for in the variable?

Please don't recommend Google DNS 8.8.8.8 in the DeGoogle community. This would be the last service I'd use for privacy and security. Cloudflare isn't much better for privacy. Mullvad's public DNS offering is the best I've found that appears committed to privacy and supporting libre projects.

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/

Thanks for the tips in this post, very helpful!

From what i understand any changes to the system outside of the userland will be overwritten after a SteamOS update.

Reagan should certainly be known as one of the worst people to occupy the Presidency, but I think for a bigger perspective on how we got to this place, the 1886 SCOTUS decision to recognize corporations as people is a good start.

Hmm, I wonder if SteamOS has AppArmor by default so I can tinker with it.

Thanks for the suggestion, I think the main issue is doing it on the Steam Deck. On a native Linux machine it's easier. I don't see a way to install OpenSnitch on the Steam Deck with the read-only file system and whatnot. I think a pi-hole and block DNS might be easier than trying to mess with SteamOS.