An HOA (home owners associations) can say what color you can paint your house, What you can plant in your yard, What you can have in your driveway, and some even say what color your blinds can be.

Microsoft controls your computer, they say what info is sent back to Microsoft, and they say when you must upgrade. They can shut down your computer when they want whether you like it or not.

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    Someone definitely reads the changed code of Gentoo packages. You are saying that every operating system on the planet is untrustworthy, besides gentoo and a few other source-based distros, but let’s target Ubuntu in particular.

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      That’s not what I’m saying.
      I’m saying you need to trust the people making your OS cause no way in hell is anyone else able to audit every update they push.
      Whether your OS is trustworthy depends on their history. In that regard, I’d give Ubuntu a solid B-