there is postmarketOS, lineage OS, and graphene that creates a privacy layer of it. Lineage OS has a bunch of phones it works on, while graphene is exclusive to pixels, sideload lineage OS onto your phone system (DON’T FORGET TO BACKUP!) and install it. It’s as good as it gets.
Postmarketos works in a similar fashion you sideload the bootloader but you can install Linux distros exclusively for phones.
not related to AutoCAD, but in my linear algebra class that required to use MATLAB, I went with GNU octave and created a script to convert my native octave code to matlab code. try looking for an opensource one. I’m not familiar with acad but I assume there is a whole slue of open source software that does what AutoCAD does.
if you’ve searched and hadn’t found one that does as intended install wine and try and install .exe with that.
if all else fails just use virtualbox and install windows. its not ideal but it does work!
I can’t imagine IBM would fall that low that they need to add spyware into their OS.
IBM focuses on cloud infrastructure, their buisness strategy is on cloud infrastructure for buisnesses not consumer grade products like what google has created.
I wouldn’t be surprised just shocked if they did go and add spyware to their fedora OS. it just doesn’t make any sense.
you could probably notice spyware just by the usage of memory and cpu, spyware is easily detectable on the hardware side.
if your trying to eliminate any data collection in your OS your best interest is to do LFS (Linux from scratch). LFS is not an operating system in specific but rather a guide on how to build your own linux system. I started doing it recently with alpine linux, but arch and debian work as well. With this method You control every single aspect of what gets utilized (besides key OS functionality that allows it to operate), and what doesn’t.
spyware much like maleware is decided by you, not the OS.
if you have experience with headless-debian, just go for that.
in a world where everything is dominated by convenience, eg. AI being a convenient source of information, GUI’s being a conveniet way of navigating information. I chose my distro to do the complete opposite. I wanted a distro that if an error arises it would give me a detailed message, not some vague response like “check the logs” where It doesn’t explain how to navigate there.
you may know where im going with this, I went with Cauchy OS and hyprland primarily for the speed of the kernel and the surplus amount of information and documentation with AUR. I cannot leave arch on the basis of how fast it is, for a massive update to install the latest core packages of the OS it takes about 2 min whereas fedora takes 15 and well windows (comediaclly, stereotypically popularized by space force) takes 45 minutes, we’ll leave it at that. The reason I chose hyprland is strictly on the same notion that learning skills does make the tools you use convenient, hyprland uses keybind over traditional mouse for navigating, launching apps, opening terminals, etc… and you become much faster with keybinds whereas a mouse is limited by the performance of it. using hyprland came to me as an extension when my professor taught me emacs (a TUI based text-editors). its why over the years (despite having used one initially) I just continue to despise IDE’s for writing code especially with most editors shipping proprietary AI into the mix. It’s not convenient anymore when I have to delete every code suggestion the AI makes.
“convenience” has effectively lost all of it’s meaning in technology. To me, convenience has been popularized to justify intellectual laziness, and embraced by tech orgs because they can capitalize off of it.
well it is an editor, it was intended to be an editor, you just have the options to watch videos within it 😂
I use emacs
finish it.
kill PID