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Wasn't it like they still provide their sources, but not binaries, which (while generally being a dick move) doesn't doesn't contradict the GPL?

Or have I missed something?

Does it, tho? It's like "smth you know + smth you have" (although knowing or being able to remember most paswords is also quite often a bad idea, but I digress); so you have a device and know [the password for the password manager which knows] the password.

Besides, given that logic, to not defeat the purpose of 2fa you'll have to have another smartphone just to run aegis or something

*their. I mean, they're petty much like a family member, so why not

I mean, that's TTT: instead of selling your info they charge companies showing you ads you might be interested in.

Let's narrow it down to normal ppl :) 'Cause those having nothing to hide are enabling enshitification.

wait, it's all gnome?

always has been.

I mean, I'm not saying PayPal and apps needing whatever play store check are shit, but... Oh, wait, I am saying they're shit 😝

Anyways, let's try again. Yeah, librem kinda sucks, but mostly in terms of hardware, availability, and their situation with not delivering on time and not returning the money.

That's why you change the repos, tho, instead of mixing those from arch and manjaro, and do overwrites to avoid trouble with their configs. Also, I have a feeling pacman tells you when a package managed by it is no longer in the repos, so you just remove it to not accidentally take part in another round of ddos-ing aur or whatever manjaro's packages currently do for fun.

As for why, that's just to avoid setting up everything from scratch

Well, that's kinda how I once converted my artix to arch (skipping a few f-ups on my part and the caveats of switching init), so I'm pretty sure it can work... Although I can try this in a VM if I have some spare time

Allrighty, let's try turning it into "helping". When one finds themselves using manjaro, they should:

0. Prepare a flash drive with recent arch iso flashed (that shouldn't be strictly necessary, but just in case);
1. Go to the pacman's mirrorlist and replace their repos with the proper ones (i.e. from arch);
2. Do a -Syyuu base --overwrite=*;
3. (optional) In case of trouble, boot to the drive flashed at step 0, make necessary mounts, arch-chroot, solve the problems. One can also try pacstrap-ing instead.

This is a rather high-level overview off the top of my head, and one would likely have to make a few tweaks here and there. Still, I hope it helps :)

Given you need physical access (afaiu), there's an easier ~~root~~ route: you come with a flash drive that also has shim, boot from it, and do whatever you wanted to do.

Now if you don't want whoever to be able to bypass suckure boot, you remove microshit's keys and install your own ones. Coincidentally, you don't really need a crutch - that is shim - in that case.