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"How gullible am I for uploading my face to some random data harvester?"
<caveat emptor>
bare minimum GPU: NVIDIA 2080 with 8GB VRAM
300 Gb of disk space
</caveat emptor>
Righteousness shall stand, my friend.
All hail Stallman & Co and all the brilliant masters of narratives behind them.
Because none of those features are irreplaceable and/or crucial to run a perfectly fine workstation.
> if you want to replace everything because microsoft is bad and can't be trusted, then start by replacing the kernel.
Unless Windows kernel phones home over some covert physical channel which is undetectable by tools like Wireshark running on a separate gateway (and secretly supported by all routers in existence), there's absolutely zero need to replace the kernel when all said phoning home can be stopped with a properly configured firewall.
As secure as Google's scout's honor about it, and as private as a mesh fence.
What next? Hydrologists admit there's some water in the ocean? Chromatologists discover that the sky is color blue?