urgent_skittle

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   Ask HN: How secure is desktop Linux? Is it stuck in the nineties?

   10 points by urgent_skittle 2y ago|16 comments
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   by urgent_skittle 3y ago

   > I just tell it what countries (or states / regions) to download, and it downloads them. This is exactly how Organic Maps works. You don't _have_ to zoom in on every region you plan on visiting to download it, you can just go
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   by urgent_skittle 3y ago

   Sounds like this New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/loca... Edit: or actually I was thinking about this article, One Nation, Tracked : https:/&#x2
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   by urgent_skittle 4y ago

   Indeed, and I was talking about the boot image, but some still refer to it as the recovery, i.e. LineageOS. I see LOS have changed their download pages now and correctly call the boot image boot.img instead, that's good. So anyway, jus
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   by urgent_skittle 4y ago

   Sounds very familiar. I switched to Foxy Droid, an alternative F-Droid client, years ago partly because its search functionality is miles ahead of the official F-Droid app. The popular and newer Droid-ify and Neo Store are forks of it I thi
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   by urgent_skittle 4y ago

   You make it sound harder than it is. Most (if not all) ROMs offer the boot image as a separate dowload, often referred to as the "recovery"; LineageOS is one of them. You only need to patch and flash it once, after that you can ju