In a situation where you are raided like the journalist, it may be worth nuking the phone. Consider the sources that could be exposed.
Having your phone available to law enforcement is the equivalent of forfeit your right to remain silent.
And more, once they have access, what is stopping them from planting false evidence?
In this fascist fever that US is living... I would prefer to avoid the risks.
The expansion of Europe's reach over the world in the 1500s and 1600s. Or at least the transatlantic slave trade. I would not exist, but a LOT of suffering would be prevented.
My guy, many of the Hitler policies was inspired by the southern US policies against the black population. Sometimes I wonder the nazi rise and fall didn't prevent something like that happening in the US in the XX century.
Last time I heard about it, it was being reviewed cause the genetic diversity in Africa is too high to support that claim. The bottleneck may be related only to a part of the human population.
I think that's almost the only option.
The distro is everything on top of the kernel, so to make everything work in tune they will need to be in.
Specially Arch IMHO, because they usually post on the community page when some manual intervention will be necessary.
I remember that was an issue discussed in the first days, not sure how big of a problem after that though.