I mean for privacy things it makes sense to avoid leaking anything. But I fail to understand where the danger is to have anonymous data that says a user installed "Ubuntu-24.04-wappity-whatever.iso" to "KINGSTON DATA TRAVELER 32GB" at some point.
If anything that seems like worthwhile analytics for the dev team to have access to.
Most software lets you opt out of sending anonymous analytics data though.
It is a trap for people not knowing and government may use it as excuse to activate executive
Glad I saw this. I downloaded the tool on recommendation from a forum post when I was reviving my homelab. I’ll nuke it for sure.
Thats a shame, it was one of the few disk imagers that "just worked"
What options are there for flashing to SD cards? Something that works on Mac too would be nice. A gui is preferred.
I've been avoiding it ever since the Balena moniker change.
...and that's how I met your ~~mother~~ fork
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Thank you for pointing it out.
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