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Raspberry Pi 5: available now! (www.raspberrypi.com)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For the overwhelmingly paranoid, there is one further possibility: if Microsoft were to make packages available in its repo with the same names as packages in the standard raspbian.raspberripi.org repository specified in /etc/apt/sources.list, it could override the "real" system packages with others of its own making.

I love the "overly paranoid" label, when you're talking about a repo than can alter "real system packages".

In what world is this OK?

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

That’s not the same as their claim that Microsoft software was pre installed and has access to your system which is what I’m arguing was incorrect.