I think you missed a few words in the title of the post.

Here in the Czech Republic, almost nothing. Only a few stories about overthrowing of “democratically” elected president, and few comments from French. No one seems to care.

SearX or even better, SearXNG is probably the best option right now. But it is still just a metasearch engine. Unfortunately, currently there is no real FOSS option with its own index that is usable.

If you want to consider switching layouts I would look into Colemak, it is basically qwerty changed, so you get most of the benefits of Dvorak but much easier to learn.

This is a really deep rabbit hole you can get into. But basically, today you cannot have privacy. Steps you can do to increase it are things like:

• Use open source OS (Linux)
• Use open source OS on your mobile (I would recommend LineageOS)
• Only use FOSS if you can
• Don't use Google/Bing/etc. you don't really have a good option here, as there is no open source solution. Basically, you can try to trust things like duckduckgo/brave search, but personally I use searxng.
• Don't think that because you use VPN you are safe, most of the VPNs are dubious at best, if you really want privacy something like Tor is probably your best bet.

But most importantly, even if you do everything perfectly, don't think anything you do is private. It is only a matter of making things more difficult. Your best bet for privacy is just not doing anything online that would be worth the effort to spy on you.

Will they be hosted somewhere where we can all contribute git/wiki? Would like to contribute, but hard to do that without knowing what is in them.

You still seem to misunderstand the distinction. The fact that something has a word telemetry in it doesn't mean it sends any data anywhere. Would you also say that checking your hard drive status with SMART is bad? I would guess not, and that is also a form of telemetry, it just doesn't have the word telemetry in it. How about checking how full your disk is, also a telemetry. All of these have exactly the same security implication as these kernel modules.

No one is saying that just by using Linux, you are automatically 100% secure and nothing can ever happen to you and no one can spy on you. That doesn't mean that it is so much better than Windows. Everyone should ideally use Linux, is it perfect, no but there are currently no better alternatives.

I would say that especially leftist Linux users are against every corporation. But there are reasons why Linux users prefer AMD to Nvidia. They are more FOSS friendly. If you want to argue for free hardware, I 100% agree, but unfortunately that is basically impossible nowadays.

If you want to be alarmed about what your computer is doing, I would much more worry about things like Intel management engine and AMDs version of that. Or the binary-blobs that you load just to use these devices. Those are actual issues that we should be focused on.

I mean, sure, but that is true for literally every single info on your computer. If you can read data from these modules, you can read data from anything else. You can read entire memory, query your file system, do basically anything you want. At that point, the issue of whether someone can query the capabilities of your intel CPU is not something I would worry about.

Basically no one uses rust with dependencies from git. Except in some cases when you are working with very unstable software. Everyone just uses versions that are published to crates.io. If you are concerned about reproducibility that is a valid concern but for that cargo is pretty good, or you can use things like nix.

That just depends on what you use. There are loads of distros that allow you to use whatever you want. There are only so many ways you can do stuff, and it doesn't make much sense to differentiate if you don't have reason to. You have some genuinely diverging distros like NixOS that are significantly different.

Not really sure what corporate media you read. In my experience, most of those are just a popularity contest. And usually there are non-corporate distros like arch, Debian, etc. And with desktops I mean I am not even sure there are ten desktop environments (at least with some reasonable amount of users).

Most of the code written nowadays isn't self-contained. And basically it is impossible to do so. I mean, I guess you have some exceptions like the Linux Kernel itself and some low level utilities, but you use libraries and others people code everywhere. In that way, Rust is much better than most other options because it at least lets you pin your dependencies really easily. The idea that everyone who uses some code is auditing it is just ridiculous. You should be able to sure, and in some cases it might be a good idea to do so, at least for parts of your code. But if you are using Linux, did you audit the entire Linux source code? What about C standard libraries. Even just that would take a ridiculous amount of time.

I would also argue that rust isn't pushed everywhere, people just like it because it is a wonderful language. There are much more people who use it in their own projects than do it professionally for example.

I could understand your argument if it was based on how Rust is run, what licenses it uses etc. But this is rather baffling to me. Basically the only thing you mention is the issue of statically linked vs. dynamically linked.

With zstd again not really sure what you are even trying to say. That Facebook had impact on what is used? Ok, so? Zstd is completely open source and if someone decided to use it, that is up to them. I am pretty sure that every software I used that uses zstd also let me use another compression algorithms. And from what I found zstd in some cases is superior to alternatives, but feel free to provide sources, I am sure that I could be incorrect.