Switching to Linux, what do I do now with Eve?

EVE Technology and Research Center Linux
#129

unwanted additions? you mean like systemd, those timers that connect to the internet to download your firmware periodically, the snooping dump uploader for the kernel, the NTP time polling to canonical servers every 32 seconds. ok then (and I am not joking, Mint actually is pretty chatty on the network with unwanted additions), and not a pip of disclosure out of the box on that.

check /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf (might want to relax the polling intervals and also use the public pools), this pretty much lights you up like a beacon to Canonical (also potentially possible to skew your clock so we control your time)
check systemctrl list-timers (look for fwupd, you can run this manually if you wish using fwupdmgr, a machine doing firmware updates on it’s own is not to my liking, imagine getting it to push out bad firmware?)
check for kerneloops daemon (I love reading unscrubbed logs and dumps for info, good way to get juicy internal info, not every app sanitises their logging, amazing what info one can find in there from a bad app)

do you even know what your machine is doing under the hood? Don’t worry Mint isn’t maintained by a “stranger”, neither is Ubuntu, nor Debian… nor systemd, nor the servers they connect to, don’t worry you’ve read all their code (and built it locally) and know them well along with whatever they do with the info collected

#130

Simply put - I’d trust the Mint maintainers far more than I’d trust an App produced by you…

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#131

Good job, but Mint maintainers didn’t write the stuff, still signalling your computer to Canonical?

#132

I take it you wrote your own Operating System in its entirety then ? along with the code for your Router, no doubt ?

#133

Nope, but at least I try to know what goes on with it and not fool myself

#134

I’ve used Linux for years, and never had a problem with bad code or viruses - all I know about you is a propensity to complain on the forums…

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#135

which is what you’re doing now ironically, nobody forces you to read nor chime in

#136

So you’d rather nobody points out what bollocks you talk, so you can get away with it unchallenged ?

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#137

Shouldn’t you be playing the game on your faux-Windows machine with that thing that’s not an emulator?

#138

Because Bill Gates (you know, that guy building vaccine factories on hope alone) is a bad person, all UNIX, Google and Mac people know this.

Trust Google!!!

#139

Whut ?? :thinking:

#140

Don’t feed the Troll.

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