makes little difference with fingerprinting

why do you think so?

maybe neither. and the benefits depend on its kind. a public vpn can easily be contra-productive when the provider is dishonest, but even when its honest and secure, a VPN that you run for yourself at home has different effects

this is not the first time they do something like this

I don’t understand, sorry. what I meant is the way you as the user do upgrades. you grab a terminal, elevate and run the system update command (zypper refresh, zypper update). major version upgrades are more complicated.

I can do this sure. But this is not noob friendly the slightest. and the YaST graphical tools don’t make it much better either.
I won’t say that the update system of windows is good because why the fuck does searching for updates minutes, and other reasons. but the UI of it is much better. it tells you what will it update, it has a button for starting the process, an automatism for it too. there’s also a menu for the update history.

how do they do regular updates? how do they do major version upgrades?

I think both of these is a big pain point.

we’re doomed then

I have been using the same CPU for half a decade. Not everyone is an impulse buyer.

So I don’t understand why people are taking issue with them cooperating with LE

some believe they (proton) are invincible and can do whatever they want. maybe because they think that’s what swiss privacy and swiss laws mean

the issue is that they can’t defy the law without shutting down and going into jail. proton has given the tool the activist would have needed to protect themselves: the service has an official onion site, which would have made IP collection impossible, and they could have just said they can’t know it

why?

to respond to the title, I’m not sure about that. your problems are with the samsung system, not with all the custom roms. I think it’s not only graphene that’s the solution. It’s even only available for a little subset of the phones.

that’s good to be aware of, thanks

I disagree that users won’t do stuff on their own. They will, but they will allocate very little time to it, on average, especially when compared to a tech savy person. And that’s just because their computer is a tool.And if they cannot make their tool work for what they want to do, they’ll find another way. Or deem it impossible.

also don’t forget that many don’t even have the time and energy

and start off from a fundamentally wrong premise: that people are willing (let alone wanting) to manage their own operating systems.

people shouldn’t need to manage their own operating systems, to begin with

https://beehaw.org/comment/4094773

in my understanding OP was not comparing it to simple wireguard

afaik duckduckgo knows all of this.

site: limits the site to search on, even shows a warning for that.
“quotes” make sure all results contain the word.
-apple make sure you wont see results where the page contains this word

to simple wireguard? there are wireguard based mesh network solutions out there

the AI thing must be something relatively new. shows they are all for using buzz tech