this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2024
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Manjaro? How about Manjarno

[–] HeckGazer 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh for fucks sake. Why must enshitification come for everything

[–] Shareni 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it enshitification if it was shit all along?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Shareni 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Pre installs an AUR helper

Delays base packages so AUR ones break

DDOS AUR

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

On the one hand the AUR should be able to withstand an attack without going down.

On the other hand, you probably shouldn't be the one to cause the problem. I wouldn't be surprised if the AUR has a safeguards now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

When it comes to Foss projects I would gladly give away my data for improvement of the project.

[–] Shareni 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

And what improvements could come from incompetent fucks knowing your hostname, mac adress, and other identifying information? Aside from improving their financial status that is...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] kersplomp -4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Divisive take. And an unpopular one, seeing as manjaro is the fifth most popular linux distribution.

[–] Shareni 3 points 18 hours ago

Based on what, distrowatch? You do realise that's just showing what people clicked on distrowatch, not the actual numbers of users...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

If you spend some time looking into it you will realise how badly manjaro is run.

If a team can’t even manage to update their SSL certs in time (which is extremely simple to automate) and multiple times asked their users to set their system date back to solve it I really don’t think they are trustworthy when it comes to scraping user data.

It’s not that I expect them to use the data maliciously, I simply just don’t trust their security procedures when they fail to do something that simple.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it defaults to dont send anything fine by me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fuck em. Not that i use manjaro anyways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I do use it... Sad 😢😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Personally I don't really mind opt out unless the choice isn't clearly presented to people for them to decide.

Like if during installation one of the steps is "share anonymized data" and the switch is in the on position by default, I really don't mind that. Usage data is massively helpful from a UI/UX perspective and in terms of user testing, doubly so for open source projects without as much resources for doing that kind of testing otherwise.

But if it's burried in a settings pannel somewhere, that sucks and doesn't respect user agency

Thats how I feel anyway 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

As long as it's opt in I'd happily give user data to improve ui\ux. But it doesn't seem like it is so good!