krautsauer

By license sure, it is. But having a look at https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en#four-freedoms I kind of doubt it really is.

Freedom 1 is dubiously fulfilled. I can modify it, sure, but I can't modify it when the program runs on my data for me. Freedom 0 isn't fulfilled. I don't have the necessary input data to run the program myself.

(Of course the free software definition wasn't written for today's world, and the clarification below goes somewhat against my argument for Freedom 0. Feel free to pick this apart.)

The list of devices in the highest support category hints at how likely this is. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices

And yeah, you can even buy phones with a non-android linux pre-installed, e.g. from pine64. But they come with all kinds of "for early adopters" warning labels. Deservedly so, in my opinion.

I seriously wonder if doing the same build twice by two people in two locations wouldn't provide the same benefit and others for less money.

(I might be spoiled by sane reproducible build systems. Maybe F-droid isn't.)

I wonder how meson wraps' story fits with this. They used not to, but now they're throwing everything into a single repository [0]. I wonder about the motivation and how it compares to your project.

0: https://github.com/mesonbuild/wrapdb/tree/master/subprojects

iodine automatically checks several modes a "simple" proxy on port 53 being one of them. If you're trying to sneak traffic through this kind of block, it is really the first tool to try.

I agree with the sentiment but I need those files behind a corporate firewall. :(

We're not for sale, but still… numbers? Nvidia's stock price isn't even a 10th of the gold reserve, as far as I can see?