Okay, so that means the US is gonna force Apple to disable Advanced Data Protection too. And soon also Germany wants to start mass surveillance [1]. Privacy is dead, the future looks bleak.

[1] https://netzpolitik.org/2025/nach-der-wahl-anlasslose-massen...

Oddly, I perceive as an interesting catalyst. I agree with your assessment that this is where it is heading now. I will admit I will be curious how... comfortable corp orates will be with that notion.

It is one thing for spooks to have it. It is a much bigger mess if the federal police has it ( then again.. they already see themselves as an intelligence agency, don't they? ).

Thank you. My first two steps will be to switch over my computer from macOS to Asahi Fedora Remix and make myself comfortable with finding alternatives to the iCloud service, maybe an encrypted NextCloud hosted on some non-US server provider. I know that Fedora is also US-based but it's the best Linux distro that's currently available for Macs and as soon as i'm getting used to the OS I'll be able to look for other distros and hardware.

Thank you for your real-life insights and recommendations. I’ll consolidate your points one by one. My main challenge is balancing independence with mobility, especially if my lifestyle changes drastically. For example, relying on a homelab wouldn’t be feasible for me. Instead, I prefer to depend on a single laptop and phone while keeping everything else in the cloud. But I’ll check out all the options, thanks.

Thanks for the list. It's really sad for me that Fedora is in the "stay away" section because the Asahi version of it probably would be the best one for my MacBook.

I remember installing OpenSuse on my PC from a random magazine CD over 20 years ago. Back to square one I guess. But how exactly would choosing a European-based Linux distro be better than a US-based one in the event of a Transatlantic war?

The code is open. The distribution, the binaries, are built on Germany. Maybe Redhat could be forced to add something in the case of such kind of war, but a German company will be out of this.

I've backed up my personal files. But they lie on a with macOS encrypted and APFS formatted hard drive. So even if I have backups I have to make sure that they are encrypted but also readable by all operating systems...

Dropbox is based in San Francisco - and also needs some kind of operating system to be accessed.

It’s fascinating to see people developing operating systems for a post-apocalyptic world. I’m not that pessimistic - yet. I just don’t want to wake up one day to some random pop-up saying all my data and software are gone because I trusted companies one the wrong side of the globe for too long.

I would personally say that the time delay between that pop-up displaying and you needing to have already been that pessimistic will be a matter of nanoseconds.

Yeah, but there are scenarios between no war and a nuclear war - and I want to be at least somehow prepared for those.

I love the Internet Archive in its current form, but let’s assume that a court rules it can’t operate as it does now. Why couldn’t it adopt a system similar to YouTube’s ownership claim? For example, if the Internet Archive hosts a song owned by Universal, the company could claim ownership of that song and receive a share of the revenue each time it's streamed. To help cover costs, the Internet Archive could introduce a paid plan, like YouTube Premium, for 10 bucks a month. While this might not be the perfect solution, it would at least be better than a world without the Internet Archive.

Because the purpose of libraries is to destroy organisations such as Universal and the faith they represent.

Shit’s getting real when mom’s getting involved.