Andrew Adams @adamsandy@librem.one

What does BIOS actually do? 🤔

It's the very first software your computer runs, making sure your hardware is ready before your operating system starts.

But what exactly happens during boot, and what's the difference between BIOS and UEFI?

Read more: https://novacustom.com/knowledge-base/what-does-bios-mean/

What are cookies and why you should avoid them for your privacy

You’ve seen it hundreds of times. You open a website and a banner pops up: “This website uses cookies. Do you accept?” Most people click “Accept All” without a second thought and move on. But that single click matters more than you might think.

Read more

https://novacustom.com/knowledge-base/what-are-cookies-and-why-you-should-avoid-them-for-your-privacy/

@leanderlindahl NovaCustom 🇳🇱 ShiftPhone 🇩🇪 with iodéOS 🇫🇷 is a great choice @novacustom @shiftphones @iode https://novacustom.com/product/shiftphone-8-1-with-iodeos/

Curious how @QubesOS works in practice?

Our latest Knowledge Base article takes you on a tour through Qubes OS. Learn how Qubes are managed, how applications stay isolated, how disposable Qubes work, and why this security-first operating system is trusted by privacy-conscious users.

Read the full article:
https://novacustom.com/knowledge-base/a-tour-through-qubes-os/

🎉A new foundation for TUXEDO OS: Switching to Debian🎉

Today, we can finally explain why Ubuntu will no longer serve as the foundation of TUXEDO OS in the future.

Further information:
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/A-new-foundation-for-TUXEDO-OS-Switching-to-Debian.tuxedo

#tuxedo #tuxedoos #debian #linux #switch

What is Heads firmware!?

Check it out 👉 https://novacustom.com/knowledge-base/what-is-heads-firmware/

#QubesOS

Big Tech gives you search. Big Tech gives you a browser. Big Tech gives you connectivity.
Then uses all three to track everything you do.

MASQ × Timpi flips that.

Search. Browser. VPN. One privacy stack. No surveillance. No compromise.

This is what it was always supposed to look like.

Download MASQ > https://www.masqbrowser.com

So maybe a good place to start is to introspect our communities to ensure that they’re places where people of all ages, etc., are welcome even if they have a conscience, a functional moral compass, and a sense of ethics. Because these days, that’s very much not a given.

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Timpi search beta is free to access.

👉 Regions get results reflecting their interests, not Silicon Valley's
👉 Emerging topics surface faster than centralised crawlers catch them
👉 Underserved content gets discovered instead of buried
👉 Biases baked into traditional engines don't exist here

The more people search, the smarter it gets, for entire communities, not advertisers.

Share with your community, let's build a better way - https://timpi.com/

Privacy is a human right.

The three freedoms, as I understand them from "The Dawn of Everything" by Graeber and Wengrow, are:

1) Freedom to refuse
2) freedom to leave
3) freedom to do things differently.

We're doing that here on mastodon.

💡 There are far more ethical options to Google Search.

✅ Murena Find does not spy on you.

No user profiling = no targeted ads = no political or commercial bias

Use it in your browser, your Murena Workspace account and on your Murena smartphone - with Advanced Privacy for even more protection.

Murena Find is free. You stay the customer – never the product.

👉  https://murena.qwant.com

#EthicalTech #BigTech

GrapheneOS exists to protect users from having their privacy invaded by arbitrary individuals, corporations and states. Privacy depends on security. GrapheneOS heavily improves both privacy and security while providing a high level of usability and near perfect app compatibility.

There’s a computer inside your computer.

It runs below your OS.
You don’t control it.

It’s called Intel Management Engine.

We give you the option to disable it.

Because you should be in control, not hidden firmware.

Who you are. What you fear. What you want. Big Tech has it all. Timpi keeps none of it. Not one search. Not one click.

Avoid developers who see people as livestock to be farmed.

They’re not very nice people.