_Alright, so this article is mainly meant for the people at uni who glance over at my laptop screen and wonder why I'm not using a "normal" operating system._
What do I mean when I say that proprietary software is an existential threat to our individual autonomy? To start with, there are a significant amount of incentives for proprietary software developers to do things which harm your autonomy, such as operating systems which prevent the user from installing apps other than from a single location. Since there is no way to excercise [your freedoms](https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html#four-freedoms), it is impossible to verify that the software isn't doing injustice to you, such as with [period tracking apps providing data to tech giants without user consent](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/opinions/period-trackers-app-roe-abortion-ranney-yao/index.html).
