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Raspberry Pi 5: available now!
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This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
To bad that Raspberry Pi lost its cool, when they began to "cooperate" with Microsoft, and grant Microsoft access to your device.
Edit:
As answered to another user about the issues of the Microsft repo:
The raspberry pi came preinstalled with a Microsoft developer tool, which resided in a Microsoft controlled repo.
Now Microsoft has root access to your system, whenever you make any kind of upgrade, and can change dependencies for that tool to anything in their repo. Basically granting a third party control over your raspberry pi.
The worst is that it's very difficult to prevent, you may look up guides to prevent Microsoft repo, and even these solutions have shortcomings.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/raspberry-pi-os-added-a-microsoft-repo-no-its-not-an-evil-secret/
On top of that, this enabled telemetry which is borderline illegal in EU.
It also means you ping Microsoft with every use of your package manager, granting Microsoft very useful information on a competing OS, plus giving them information you may not wish to give them.
You may consider all these issues as non issues, but I do not.
Edit:
It did not come preinstalled.
Lots of things to criticize rPi foundation for, but this is just goofy BS.
You keep posting this article but it explains clearly why it's not a big deal.
I just found the article to prove that it happened.
You then have to ask why it wasn't announced, and why they changed the practice?
There are several problems about it, which I stated elsewhere in this thread. You may think they are not an issue, and that's OK.
But I DO think it's a serious issue, in part for the reasons stated previously.
Now I think I'm out of here, this is not something that actually has my interest anymore, since we use Debian on our old Pi's , and will not buy any more.