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  • That's cute. It's a short, punchy statement to absolve yourself of responsibility to help.

    It's also fantasy.

    There will be a lot of real harm done to real people in the transition to fascism. Not doing everything you can to stop it is allowing that harm to happen.

  • The point is that if the destination is fascism, violence might be justified if no other avenue is available.

    Like yes, the rhetoric is obviously extreme, but that might be what's necessary to get the Democratic party to actually use the tools available to them, like packing the courts

  • You might be able to get the same hash if you did a backup of the disk in iso format. It doesn't matter though since you wouldn't be able to use that format to play anything.

    All that to say that these seem to be the wrong tools for what you're actually trying to do.

  • Here's the actual relevant part

    These are security risks to be sure, and while these permissions are (mostly) on the surface, possibly defensible, together they do clearly represent an app trying to gather all of the data that it can.

    However, a lot of info from this report is overblown. For example code compilation is sketchy to be sure, but without a privilege escalation attack, it can't do anything the app couldn't do with an update.

    Also, there's some weird language in the report, like counting the green security issues in other apps (like tiktok) as if they were also a problem, despite the image showing that green here means it doesn't present that particular risk.

    All of this to say, if you have temu, probably uninstall it. It's clearly collecting all the data it can get.

    But it's unlikely to be the immediate threat that will have China taking over your phone like this report implies.

  • It's surprisingly unreliable. We have had frequent issues (once every two weeks or so), with peripherals suddenly stopping to work for no apparent reason, or the system being slowed waaaay down. Turning it off and on again worked most of the time, but that is not something I expected from a Linux-based machine.

    I think this might be an issue with the official dock. I've got a third party dock that's a lot more stable. The biggest problem I have here is that the port not being thunderbolt or usb-4 limits your dock options a lot