My apologies. Your comment came off (to me anyway) as the former.
My apologies. Your comment came off (to me anyway) as the former.
So, I just looked it up and apparently their official stance is that auditing is questionably effective and thus unnecessary:
Our software is free and open source, while we repute at the moment [it’s] not acceptable to provide external companies with root access to our servers to perform audits which can not anyway guarantee future avoidance of traffic logging or transmission to third parties. On the contrary, we deem very useful anything related to penetration tests. Such tests are frequently performed by independent researchers and bounty hunters and we also have a bounty program.
In other words, their reasoning seems to be:
Personally, I don’t agree with points #2 and #3, but point #1 is fair I suppose. In my opinion, it should not be up to the users to hold the company accountable; and there is a difference between penetration tests and log auditing, as the former I believe are merely to check the resilience against outside hacking.
My end impression is that judging from their other documentation and forum posts, the fact that their software is fully open-source, and their past behavior in accordance with their stated values, I think I’m inclined to believe them. However, it is somewhat worrying nevertheless that there isn’t log auditing involved regardless of their actions.
What do you mean? Are they not good for privacy or security? They seem definitely more zealous about that on their FAQs and forum pages than, say, ProtonVPN, for sure.
That is so weird. Haha.
I didn’t know that. Thanks!
Which distros, out of curiosity?
Maybe. I’m busy right now.
I might do it later. Maybe I’ll do it on
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Wow, thanks for all the information! Very fascinating, I think. I enjoyed reading it! :)
That is a good example. Thanks.
Sorry to make you sad. :(
One can only hope.
Yeah, not all games work on Linux in all situations though. It depends for example on
So, no, although it’s gotten a LOT better in the last 5 years, the notion that it “just works” is only situationally correct, and is by no means correct to the extent that justifies ridiculing those who say that it is not so plug-and-play as what is claimed.
Furthermore, doing so only sets up new Linux users without the optimal hardware or firmware for disappointment due to unrealistic expectations.
Just out of curiosity, aside from the good example posted below by @trslim@pawb.social, could you provide some examples of “devices and hardware made for windows that somehow fails miserably to work when it has no good reason to”? :)
Real Linux users only use Hannah Montana linux. 😎
I don’t understand. Doesn’t every GUI OS have a desktop environment? Not just Linux distros. Like, isn’t the Windows Shell just Windows’s desktop environment?
Fun fact: The “Windows key” (or “Command key” for Mac users) has its own generic name: the Super key!
Not trying to be a smartass here; I genuinely find it fascinating! :D
That hasn’t been updated in two years. Seems kinda dead if you ask me.
Which is a shame because I used to use that and it was great!
Seems great. Not really for me, but hey, I’m just glad it’s not yet another goddamn “minimalist” launcher, i.e. ones that’re basically just glorified apps lists.
I’d personally love more launchers that use a tiling system, with built-in clock and/or weather widget.
Kind of like Focus Launcher with the Arcticons icon theme but, you know, with less moon and more grid.
Not familiar with AliExpress, but yeah eBay might be an option. Thanks!
Definitely something I looked into. Sadly, all of the ones I found were only purchaseable on Amazon or from Walmart.
There’s a certain point where it just comes down to trust. And if you distrust a company enough that you think they aren’t posting the same code to the git repository that they say they are, then maybe that’s when you shouldn’t be doing business with them.
This is the case with all organizations, corporate or otherwise.