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Nah… If you use of=/dev/sda it won’t touch your main drive \s

You know you can do in-place upgrades. I never faced any issues despite the warnings on the doc. Though I always try to do the in-place upgrade on a template clone first to see what I’m in store for. Like sometimes tmpfs needs to be increased…

Deal of art

I’ve never built a full ISO or Libre kernel specifically. But, For debugging few issues in my laptop I’ve built the kernel for qubes OS and app VMs. But from your description it sounds like you just want to disable certain modules. That can easily be achieved by updating the .config for the kernel and if needed you can add the patches to the kernel from Linus (Qubes is already adding few) check out https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-linux-kernel

you can also use Qubes builder v2 to create rpm packages in secure way.

No. AOSP itself has little to no tracking. All the tracking/spying comes from Google Play Services which are automatically updated to the latest version. Also those are installed as system apps so they have greater access to OS functionality and normally you won’t be able to change the permissions.

In my case I need one app for generating RSA token to login to system. But somehow it works on GrapheneOS. I have created separate profile for that and installed just that 1 app. And during registration we need internet access after that that’s not even needed so I’ve even disabled internet access. And it still works. Check if something similar can be done in your case. But be careful some companies force you to BYOD but then restrict saying you can’t root or use custom ROMs.

I’ve been daily driving Qubes OS for last 6 years. You don’t need to be an Linux expert but you should know basic things. And few common commands and maybe simple bash scripting if you want some level of customization

Main thing is divide your personas,and create a Qubes for each of them. and if you just want to search for some random shit use disposable VMs

My setup is something like this I’ve 3 debian and 3 fedora templates 1 minimal used for sys VMs and vault, 2 normal template here I only install packages only available in official debian/fedora, repos 3 in this template I add custom repos which are still trustworthy

Then depending on what I need in which app on I assign the template.

I’m forced to use zoom and other very intrusive apps for them I’ve just setup the rc.local script (this runs with start of any Qube) to install them

Also even though Qubes provides isolation at Qube level I still use firejail inside all the VMs it just takes few minutes to setup and gives a peace of mind

Also Hassel depends on what you use it for. Few pain points for me are

1. Nested virtualization isn’t possible* there are some workarounds and in most cases it’s okay. The only problem is for Android app development. In that case the best solution is to just use adb and connect your own device

2. PCI passthrough it was really terrible few years ago but now it works in most cases but for me sometimes my Laptop overheats. I don’t need it much often so i haven’t spent time to fix it.

The only place I find it useful is in writing documentation for the code. I can quickly review it without there being any gotchas that only show up under certain circumstances like with code and even if I miss something it doesn’t break anything and anyone who is confused by the doc can easily reach out to me.

The one with the blinking white block. Except when I’m in insert mode of vim then blinking white line

Opend it in Tor Browser inside a Whonix dispVM inside Qubes OS it got nothing on me

Atleast be a neckbeard and use cat the way neckbeard Gods intended \s

I agree but most open-source software will not add any trackers because even if they did someone will fork and remove them also lot of open-source apps like this won’t even have internet access to sell your data

GrapheneOS but check banking apps again because for me they were working till last year but then Google started enforcing Play integrity check instead of SafetyNet checks. I was able to do almost everything from website so there’s that

Go to user settings/manage usersthere you can enable SMS and calls

I thought Trump supported MAGA and not MCGA

Sorry to pop your bubble but Google is Platinum tier member of Linux Foundation.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/members

See ya losers I’m going to moon \s

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That one Tech support who downvoted you. I mean yes it’s a headache for them but they should also make sure to have backup options for BYOD or whatever the f is in this case

But if you don’t use VPN and are a US citizen don’t feel bad GCHQ and Pine gap will spy on you and then report to NSA.

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