Let me try to help you in a more psychological way: try focusing on how much more important those issues of privacy, respecting user self determination, etc are than all those little trade offs (which sound to me as much like a cranky resistance to change as anything else). You are going to have to accept changes you don't like along with changes that you might eventually see as improvements if you give it a chance. But even if not, the enshittification element should outweigh all that.
I gave up Windows for Plasma 4.something, over a decade ago to avoid the enshittification of Windows 10, and even then I felt like it was a user interface improvement and it was painful going back every time I booted my window partition. I can't even imagine how someone can put up with the shit Windows 11 imposes on you. But, hey everyone weighs things differently.
Personally, when software I paid nothing for, made by volunteers, has a flaw or doesn't meet my preferences, it pisses me off a whole lot less than when software that I've paid for, made by a corporation with more money then God, blue screens or forces something on me that I didn't ask for.
Do you mean the specific exploit performed by the author has been fixed? Or the general vulnerability that this exploit was intended to demonstrate has been fixed? The article ends with a What's Next section discussing the difficulty of the latter, saying
we don’t think there’s a silver bullet to address the risks caused by the compromise of such central pieces of infrastructure
and going into detail about the challenges for openSUSE OBS. Are you claiming those challenges have all been solved and exploits like this are no longer possible?
Just curious, is this chiro actually injecting something into their joints? Or is it like pretend injections, like with that magic gun thing that makes a click but doesn't actually do anything?
I think the root of this and many others in other society is a failure to understand and accept features of human nature. It is our tendency to lie to ourselves in certain situations. One needs to learn to distrust yourself in some ways. To be on the lookout for where you might be inclined to avoid looking at or accepting the truth. To do that your also need to realize that your tendency to do that doesn't make you a horrible person, it's just human nature.
Boston baked beans. To my taste, good ones are cooked low and slow so that the beans almost start melting together, and they should be both sweet and tangy.
Let me try to help you in a more psychological way: try focusing on how much more important those issues of privacy, respecting user self determination, etc are than all those little trade offs (which sound to me as much like a cranky resistance to change as anything else). You are going to have to accept changes you don't like along with changes that you might eventually see as improvements if you give it a chance. But even if not, the enshittification element should outweigh all that.
I gave up Windows for Plasma 4.something, over a decade ago to avoid the enshittification of Windows 10, and even then I felt like it was a user interface improvement and it was painful going back every time I booted my window partition. I can't even imagine how someone can put up with the shit Windows 11 imposes on you. But, hey everyone weighs things differently.
Personally, when software I paid nothing for, made by volunteers, has a flaw or doesn't meet my preferences, it pisses me off a whole lot less than when software that I've paid for, made by a corporation with more money then God, blue screens or forces something on me that I didn't ask for.