Wholly, entirely, irelevent. Search the number of people who use NetBSD once a week compared to the number of people who use FreeBSD once a month or OpenBSD once a month. Check the number of people who have at least installed NetBSD. See what it’s used for. NetBSD is completely forgettable.

I joined Privacy and Security

I joined there.

Does the BSD’s heavy emphasis on code correctness, that’s when the quality and security of the code will be revealed. I will watch what the OpenBSD developers say when they try to port the new code for FFMpeg.

When this comes to the BSD’s, it will be interesting to see if there is a significant difference in multimedia. I bought Intel 11th gen over 10th for it’s AVX-512.

Your argument is purely ideological and reflection of your lack of experience travelling various countries that do not speak English. For example, go to a country where 100% of all business, companies, and offices, use Whatsapp because it’s the most stable form of phone service they have so they don’t have to pay for each phone call and pay for each text message.

Every and any hardware manufacturer can or has.

I will take Intel being sold or going under over cronyism and corporate welfare.

I assume that you’re at least halfway joking about backdoors in Intel.

Anything released on Github has no code requirements or restrictions, that is why some people do reproducible builds of software, to verify is has 100% functionality of a binary release. Any app from F-Droid is repoducible.

If Intel can’t pay their own bills from Intel’s money, they can be sold to a private company, file for chapter 11, or go out of business.

It’s too bad that the F-Droid releases are far behind. I do not install from Github to prevent against proprietary dependancies.