I just send a lengthy note explaining in explicit detail how I can never again recommend their products to any of my friends and family unless they reverse these changes as well as exercising my privacy rights to obtain and restrict the sale / transfer / use of my personal data.
I would recommend anyone else who has an account do the same. We’ve got to at least make our displeasure and unwillingness to be a repeat customer known.
Always absolutely wild to me that these things are native to the Carolinas
They do so with no regard for user rights or privacy
Yeah but throw them a buck and all those rights and privacy go away
I have not tried it, but I’ve heard good things about bazzite as a good steam deck clone that has a strong community committed to Nvidia support.
Worth looking into at least!
The problem with this philosophy is that it’s basically how ads started on the internet and now we’re here.
Oh it’s just a small, non-intrusive side bar ad, thats okay… oh it’s just ads on both sides… oh it’s just an additional ad on top and on the bottom… oh it’s just an easily dismissed pop up ad… oh it’s just a short video to watch before I’m allowed to see the site… repeat ad nauseam (no pun intended)
It’s the 46 upvotes that have me concerned that many people do not in fact see it as a joke
I genuinely don’t understand if I missed something here, and would love more explanation.
As the other person said it’s likely that xz is already installed on your system, but almost certainly a much older version than the compromised one. It’s likely that no action is required on your part assuming you’ve not been downloading tarballs of bleeding edge software.
As the other person said, just keep doing updates as soon Mint recommends them (since it’s based on Ubuntu LTS, it’s a lot less likely to have these bleeding edge vulnerabilities).
Would another less complex answer simply be that many (most?) people and organizations use RSA because it was first and elliptic signing is not yet as prevalent?
Going with Occam’s Razor here…
Would this be E. B. White, author of Charlotte’s Web?
A luxury truck with the ugliest headlights on a car today.
I’m a water engineer!
Sourcing, recycling, and transporting