Just mount /home and /var to an SSD, tempFS(If you dont care about your data), or network drive and this is a perfect purpose for USB booting.
Saves your hard drives from all the bootloader stuff, and should be faster than a spinning disk if the drive is 3.0.
Id even mount the USB as read only to ensure it isnt damaged, and use any ISO generator to manage updates from another device (Like create a new flash, shutdown this PC, plug in the new flash - bam update complete)
Distro package maintainers are different than software dev maintainers.
They mean no one can be reasonably be up to date on software security updates, and (ideally) ensuring all packages changes are not malicious (as well as the small stuff like properly integrating to the distro, but idk how void works enough to comment on that)
Cause like I can write a ton of guix configs that’ll probably run until the next ice age, but that does nothing about the dev who’s software I packaged, that now decided they’re personally god and need to spread christ as fast as possible.
(Also off topic but that’s the power and curse of nixos-like distros, its too easy to package so odds are the shit ain’t updated, and suddenly there’s 1000 Firefox packages in nixpkgs)
Not killing customers is also technically a limitation on companies, doesn’t inheritly mean it stops them from maximising profit.
Hell the reason companies don’t kill and do dei are the same reason, public perception (and also why there’s not a sneeze of either of those in poor countries)
But also… genuinely you thought I meant they like physically tear the logo off the back of every customers laptop and replaced it, only for a month, every single year?
Cause you know what fuck it, you’re right I do believe this 100% - you’re telling me Tim apple doesn’t visit you yearly??? man you gotta get your money back
I could be from alpha centuri for all it matters, storing your data in an american companies servers is still subject to american laws, that was kinda the whole point of the cloud act.
A European company on the other hand isn’t subject to such laws, and is why many tech companies open up in France/Switzerland, they have laws to protect their citizens privacy instead of outlaw it.
I got an even better question for you: Is that relevant here?
Cause I don’t think it is at all, but to answer anyways I think DEI is a valuable tool to assist picking the best person for a job, independent of race - as there is a racist bias in many hiring positions. I don’t think its perfect, but honestly I don’t think anything in US is.
And I think apple cares about DEI cause their marketing team said it makes money. Full stop.
People love when their obsession might align with their morals, but its important to remember if 2028 goes Republican in US they probably won’t even do a logo change that pride month, cause all rainbow capitalism ever is is marketing.
Damn, I forgot we all live in America - and so do all tech companies in the globe
Not security patches no, debain is quite up to date on these. (would be a kinda awful choice to run the internet otherwise, unpatched security updates are essentially free login credentials to the whole WAN)
New features they tend to be behind on though, in case they introduce any new vulnerabilities.
Its a bit of a sidestep from pacman, but nix package manager can be installed on almost any Linux device, and you can pin dependencies to an exact git hash if you want (with flakes)
Google’s just using linux for its price, but the GPL of AOSP does a lot of heavy lifting for reverse engineering efforts like this.
edit: not that that matters at all to apple spying on users - like them scanning all Iclouds openly wasn’t even that long ago
They’re still a public company, and Im sure the heat is on their C suite cause they haven’t had any successful hardware releases since the M series processor was first released.
Not selling “anonymous” data would look to shareholders as thrown away profit, which they’re even able to sue for.
So I’d be insanely surprised if they weren’t surveiling their users - but unlike google and all, they own their entire closed-source software and hardware empire, so the likelihood of catching them is also valuably low.
Are apple TVs not phoning home?
If anything I’d imagine they’re one of the hardest companies to block, considering most apple users have a thousand idevices that could smuggle messages, even with all communications turned off.
Nah you’re right I’m being a bit of a hater for the hyperbole.
But on a serious note, I think Niri will have a much harder time managing the good-and-bad faith vibe coders they’re calling for, because I think a single dev from Russia does most of the work.
Hardest part with that is every script kiddie in the world now thinks they’re Linus when using an llm
Somehow people might believe the largest open source software to ever exist has higher reviewing standards than a couple year old vibe coded WM I suppose.
(Saying this as a casual Niri user)
With the current trend of 2/3rds of housing kept empty for speculation, you’d probably buy and sell a house for uni (and probably make a profit instead of spending like 200k).
And also university already requires a shit load of capital? That’s kinda the whole point, so poor people are poor for a “reason”.
Also it’d be simple for university residences to explode it quality and quantity without the insane competition of the landlord market.
Incompetent managers are worse than incompetent devs
And if they can’t handle distributed systems, they’re the worst possible choice to maintain a distro - a massive distributed system of PCs
Theres a hidden option to make it multi core, which (on a machine like a threadripper) can insanely speed up the process.
Oh god yeah, its just filtering through the slop that actually matters.
But like the XZ trojan that was only affecting Debian installs, each distro needs to individually have competent maintainers to ensure their store is safe.
If for exapmle I set a couple ‘bugfixes’ in the guix package file for emacs, I could reasonably infect a number of systems if a lazy maintainer just approved the request. (Or other attacks without even involving guix if I notied a bug in a package spelling and typo squatted it, or stole signing keys and pushed updates to the repo myself).
None of these would change anything to other distros maintainers, but because this distros AI maintainer could risk a large number of users devices.