How much effort installing an alternative OS is depends on which device and OS you choose.

E.g. installing GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone is a four button install process in your browser, it couldn’t be much easier.

(Finding and importing a phone is something you have to do even when using the stock OS.)

Just imagine the potential for a govt/EU to revoke your oficial / legal identity at any time :)

A government doesn’t need to take away your papers to deny you its services.

Eternity sometimes replaces a post’s thumbnail with that of a post further down the list.

Are there any performance benchmarks for the Star64?

Pine64 claims the chip to have performance similar to certain Cortex-A55 processors, which would put the Star64 on par with the Raspberry 4 series. Is that true?

Riot Games behaves terribly?

uses a modern Notebook which is QubesOS certified and runs coreboot

You seem to be missing my point.

This tool would not increase censorship.

Admins are already able to implement all censorship they want.

Admins are already able to block left-wing opinions, right-wing opinions, child porn, normal porn.

And that already happens.

Lots of instances (like feddit.de) block pornographic content.

Lots of instances (like lemmy.blahaj.zone) block right-wing content.

It is already possible, and it is already happening.

An AI which can detect CSAM (and potentially other content) won’t change that. It will simply make the admins’ job easier.

I don’t know how you get the impression that this increases censorship.

Instance admin already manually block content. And they are already able to do that to any extend they wish to do.

This tool would simply automate that process.

Admins would not gain or lose any ability to block content. Identifying child porn would simply be easier.

(Imagine an admin going to their database and doing a CTRL+F with the term “child porn”, and then going through the posts to find offending ones. But instead of CTRL+F it’s an AI.)

(For some reason I don’t get a notification when you answer my comment. Is that a known issue? Did you block me or something?)

I’d be like “Oh boy let me get redirected to lots of useful answers to my question next time too”.

I don’t understand why you would frame that as being “slapped”. Does having your question marked as a duplicate hurt your feelings?

That’s not the point. Yes, child porn sites can host child porn. Other sites/instances can’t stop that. But what other instances can stop, is redistributing said child porn. And for that purpose, such technology would be useful.

You moved the period in the wrong direction. It’s 0.034462%.

Isn’t it a good thing if your question is marked as a duplicate? That means you now have lots of answers readily available which already answered the question.

Governments like the EU do not just regulate to gain power. No need to spread disinformation just so you can be more pessimistic.

I use NixOS on my main PC.

If you want to use NixOS, you have to be willing to read.

Two things are especially difficult:

Coding: You will have to learn the Nix-specific way for everything you do. How does Nodejs work in NixOS? How does GCC work in NixOS? How does my IDE work in NixOS?

Using unofficial packages: The nix repos are very large and you’ll most likely find everything you need there (or on flatpak/flathub). But if something isn’t there, the easiest way tends to be packaging it as a nix package yourself. And that’s something many people probably don’t want to do.

The coding thing is annoying enough that I may switch away from NixOS at some point.

Other than that, NixOS is great.

For most users pretty GUIs are far more important than the latest security updates. (And even if they weren’t, Fedora offers both.)