I feel like a couple gigabytes of installation materials is probably a bit more than necessary.
henfredemars
joined 1 year ago
Eczema, where your typical lotion just won't cut it.
Who knew that removing functionality and limiting access to your product was the path to social media success.
I always access from a smaller instance. I didn't even notice I was looking at older content.
I don't think shortage means what they think it means. Just because you can't find people at the price and working conditions you're willing to offer doesn't mean there's a shortage. It might just mean that you're cheap.
I think they require that builds happen on their build servers using public source to make sneaking in something unsavory harder. A maintainer can't just say here ship this binary.
Here you can see that they use an automated build system and a means to track what is getting built.
What is your threat model? I would be more worried about those proprietary firmware blobs that you have to use with your hardware irrespective of what ROM you choose. If you're worried about a maintainer sneaking in a back door, I would think that unlikely because it would leave a paper trail.
I did not read the HN comments about this, but at a glance, the SoC appears to be the RK3568 which is really lame. It comes in the NanoPi, and you're looking at four Cortex-A55, the smallest efficiency core they still use in the last couple year's smartphones. This strikes me as massively underpowered to be called a real "Desktop" experience.
Flagship smartphone from five years ago will run circles around it.
It's ambiguous how many each one is buying because you can't tell which dividers are being purchased and which ones are actually being used as dividers.
I hate Pinterest links. I don't even click if it looks like Pinterest. Might as well not exist.
It's a pretty picture but oh do I hate spider webs.