Banning Israeli contributers too?

Chinese guy goes to China and doesn’t push any commits for awhile. Simplest explanation is that “the CCP” has abducted him.

It doesn’t “involve the country known as China”. The country has nothing to do with it, which is why it stood out to me for someone to be fearmongering about China. If it was an American or Australian dev, I doubt very much that concerns would have centered around their nationality.

Chinese blobs are no more or less trustworthy than any other blobs. The Chinese government is not more or less willing or capable to force a Dev to do the bad thing.

The user above was essentially saying “never trust a Chinese developer”. That is irrational and hysterical. I would say the exact same thing if I heard someone saying “never trust a Russian/American/Indian/English/etc developer”.

You’re quite the outlier, so congrats on that. I’m pretty privacy conscious myself, so I understand that part of the attitude. What drives me crazy is the irrationality of people making hysterical claims about China that at least as accurately describe their own country.

Your phone, computer, TV, and various other electronics in your house were not made in China? You believe that your own country or mine cannot secretly compel backdoors?

Down voting for 2 reasons:

1. This article is short on factual information that says what you’re implying.
2. This is wholly irrelevant to Ventoy.

This is ridiculous. You don’t trust “Chinese maintainers” (“even if legit” lol), because the “CCP” might threaten “their family to get a backdoor inserted”.

Absolutely unhinged level of fantasy in the context of this project. A nation of 1.4 billion people and you don’t trust anyone there to write software? You know they made your phone and pretty much everything else right? Also, the idea that “the CCP” is somehow uniquely (among governments) willing and able to coerce or commission backdoors in software is a feverishly deluded attitude.

Propaganda has put a backdoor in your brain.

Thanks very much. I’ll take a look at your suggestions.

I really should learn this habit.

Pretty much everything is frustrating to configure at first. Then I learn it and it’s not so bad. Then I don’t use it for a few years, and completely forget how! Back to step 1.

Depends on your school/classes. I had no problems. Last school I attended used MS for email etc. I got a discounted license for Office which I was able to access in the browser if/whenever LibreOffice wasn’t a good option.

Nice one. I was aware of Edgy EFT, but I started my Linux journey with Feisty Fawn.

I went to a party in maybe 2003, that had basically a mini studio setup in one room. An SLR camera on a tripod with some studio lighting. People would just wander in there and snap some photos. It was pretty cool. Waaayyy out in the middle of nowhere VA.

This is true. There’s even a Linux command to grab the license key. The key won’t work on any other hardware tho, so it’s kind of useless :)

I’ve had some problems with mounting disks in my user home folder. I can’t recall the details, but it did cause me a headache at some point.

I take the same precautions crossing a Chinese border as I do crossing a US one.

I love the idea of an unaccountable spy agency using alpha technology that hallucinates answers with complete confidence /s

There are already a lot of open models and tools out there. I totally disagree that Linux distros or DEs should be looking to bake in AI features. People can run an LLM on their computer just like they run any other application.