Depends. What are you planning on using a VPN for?
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That's not a meaningful comparison because it splits Ubuntu by version but all of Arch is a single category. We'd need to roll up the Ubuntu users for it to be apples to apples.
If you're in the position that the NSA is in your system trying to bypass SELinux, you have much bigger problems.
Besides, in that case, having it disabled is going to make it easier for them anyway.
Someone is going back over their contributions, right?
Right?
Debian and Fedora have ports, though not all packages are available, and you'll probably be doing a lot of porting if you want anything else.
But this bit from the uConsole R-01 product page might be relevant to you:
uConsole R-01 is a highly experimental model and requires some experience with Linux systems & FOSS. We strongly recommend all beginners choose other models.
A lot of this stems from instances running old versions with loose registration requirements, like no captcha. This is a problem in a federated system because there's no barrier for a banned user to just jump to another instance.
Perhaps it would be a good idea if, when Lemmy has anti-spam measures implemented like rate-limiting and captchas for registration, it disabled federation with instances that are at a lower version, to motivate small instances to upgrade and enable the new features.
swapoff, reformat, swapon?
Also make sure the drive isn't dying.
Even at big companies, devs get flexibility because they need to run a bunch of random stuff that can look sketchy to security software.
Sometimes it can’t connect to the server (which is a completely stupid necessity).
That's where it does the voice processing. The only processing it does on-device is the wake word and taking commands. Actually figuring out what you mean is done in The Cloud. Doing that on-device would not only make the devices significantly more expensive, but they would also rapidly become outdated.
The rest of your complaints are valid and I've experienced them all myself to boot.
Overkill and overpriced. If you're on Windows, bitlocker is enough. If you're on Linux, LUKS is enough.
I've used Apricorn drives at previous jobs. They're cool and very much fit for purpose, but I'd have a hard time justifying the significant price premium when software is nearly as good, free, and works with any drive.
It wouldn't be significantly different from any other access method.
It doesn't actually contribute to the discussion.