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Raspberry Pi 5: available now! (www.raspberrypi.com)
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[–] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I think they're referring to that one time they installed a Microsoft repo on Raspbian without permission.

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Thanks, that makes more sense. According to an article on ars it doesn’t actually install anything so I don’t see their problem. All they have to do is comment out the line or just use a different distribution.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 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?

[–] SmashingSquid@notyour.rodeo 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.

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