Most governments have laws that force companies to accept legal tender.

I highly doubt a smartphone is a requirement. They probably have an alternative you’re not considering

Is that a joke?

Just reinstall the OS without gapps. Done.

I still fail to see anything that clearly States that all packages in the repo are signed, and that the client is configured to refuse to install any packages that aren’t signed, by default

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No. I would never allow them to force me to use Windows

Nope. It’s optional. Not all packages are signed. See their documentation

It doesn’t verify the authenticity of all the software that it downloads with cryptography.

Compared to something like apt, which will refuse to install something if it was maliciously altered, verified with pgp signatures.

It’s pretty pathetic, but most of these new package managers are a security nightmare

Fortunately there are secure ways to install gimp

Wut. No.

Nope. Both lack secure downloads.

Flatpak? Yikes.

Sure, it’s bad. But it shows they’re inept.

It’s pretty damn hard to enter someone’s home without your knowledge, when so many homes and apartment buildings have cameras everywhere these days…

Go to a local solar shop and give them money.

Solar panels and cryptocurency mining

This is kinda silly. Most implants are installed by the NSA at the airport when you buy the device.

It’s much easier for them to install implants on devices at the time you order it than to break into your house.

The Stasi is back

Stripejs is PCI compliant via tokenization. That is to say, your PII does not touch the merchant’s site. The only thing the merchant sees is random placeholders.

So it sounds like this might work, then?