Conversely I stay clear of F-Droid as they build and sign packages on behalf of the original developers, adding yet another point of injection for malicious code or supply chain attacks.

In my experience... not really. I would say SDL makes the task of writing controller support code within your own applications easier and higher-level, but in reality it still has not much to do with "drivers" (I assume you mean kernel modules), which the kernel and OS stack already provide multiple unified interfaces for with things like jsdev/evdev/udev/hidapi, regardless of how you access those subsystems (via SDL or otherwise).

ah yes, that short term Constitution that never held up /s

we should create an Internet whereby ads don’t exist

I think the main issue with that approach is that it is not commercially sustainable without an alternative source of revenue... and I really don't think people are going to pay money to every website they visit.

Or maybe you are one of the people who consider a capitalist society fundamentally broken and that there is no solution to make that method work long-term. Not saying anyone is right or wrong, and I don't presume to have any answers there either.

I was more concerned with government ties.

since you crawled under a rock /s

bing bing wahoo moment

Absolutely not. I left those communities because of what was in them, I will not be seeking them out on purpose just to show a bunch of CSAM to people and probably incriminate myself.

does not make sense

Define sense... are we talking linguist nerd sense or common casual conversation sense? Because one holds true and the other does not.

who remembers their passwords

just remember one master password for everything, totally secure bro

what

fucking terrifying movie. I will never watch it again