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If it were me, I’d cancel. I’m getting bad vibes just reading this post.

Mission accomplished!

My main concern is that the app isn’t open source. I don’t trust any software that isn’t fully open source.

That’s after you go through customs. AFAIK, that doesn’t apply to people coming into the country.

Although this administration holds people more than 48 hours regardless.

Threatening to detain you indefinitely (your rights aren’t the same at the border/customs as they are after entering the country), or just outright deny you entry.

Yes, but customs can still compel you to unlock your phone as we have recently seen with the Norweigan tourist who was denied entry due to having a JD Vance meme on his phone.

I would recommend having a separate phone with non-important data on it to take with you to the US, or have a self hosted cloud service that you can backup your data to before wiping your device.

You essentially don’t have rights at the border (or in general with the current US government).

LineageOS also has this feature.

Be wary since as of Android 16, Google no longer provides device source for Pixel phones.

Yeah. Only Spanish people are normal. Found that out today. /s

Supply chain attacks? Never heard of 'em. /s

Americans are anime girls?

https://github.com/Alzter/SuperTux-Classic

https://sourceforge.net/projects/libsdl-android/files/apk/SuperTux/

FYI it’s also on F-Droid ;)

SuperTuxKart is FOSS: https://github.com/supertuxkart/stk-code

Any time before 2005, when YouTube started the mass corporatization of the Internet (Web 2.0)

That sounds like it would be pretty epoch.

1980s montage music

Started playing Half Life 1. Never played any of the Half Life games before.

As for a recommendation, Chrono Trigger and the Silent Hill games (1-3, including the remake of 2).

Don’t forget the tax writeoffs!

I personally have a GNU bias as well (watching Stallman talk is what got me into free softwars to begin with), but the allowing of non-free software is in Libreboot and not canoeboot. Canoeboot was created as a direct response to GNU Boot, since GNU Boot is just a fork of Libreboot with all blobs removed, but it wasn’t being rebased often, if at all.

https://canoeboot.org/news/policy.html

but as for a laptop, that’s just the most free you can get right now (do correct me if I’m wrong)

I linked one at the end of my post. Not going to be cheap, though, since it’s Framework. It’s also not going to be very fast. I don’t think the board is free, but niether are any Thinkpads. There is freely licensed official documentation, though for their laptops, although I’m not sure about the third party RISC-V board: https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13

As for the point about security, in the cases where it comes to state run cracking groups or other high skilled crackers like what is mentioned in the linked article, it is not enough to just have as free of a system as possible, but also as secure and updated of a system as possible. You mentioned in your top level comment that people should use devices that run 100% free software as a direct response to this news article, but leaving any gaps open will allow for these crackers to infiltrate. The plain and simple version is that both are important.

Does the X200 even support VT-d to run something like Qubes with a Linux-libre kernel?

You also didn’t cover the point about embedded firmware blobs, like embedded microcode in every x86 CPU since the Pentium Pro, and not just microcode updates.

Also maybe separate your points into paragraphs for legibility.