Also, as others haven’t said yet, CosmicDE will be available for other distros if they choose to support it, which will be different to now where your only choice beyond Pop was to rice GNOME yourself.
Phoning home isn’t necessarily a bad thing (but I agree that it shouldn’t do it without express consent) because a lot of app development nowadays is supported by analytics. Crash reports, A/B testing, feature discoverability, etc.
If anything, I generally trust FOSS projects that ask for analytics more than I trust the typical data farm.
the unique id is probably also not meant to be sinister either but that’s definitely more of a red flag than phoning home in principle imo
I’m in the UK and while they make big talk of punishing cyber criminals I’ve never received as much as a cease and desist from an ISP despite running what is essentially a 24/7 seedbox from my home server for watching stuff via Plex
A lot of processing power to use (re-encoding and transcoding for certain streaming clients) when, like others say, it might just be easier to not bother
“Ahhh gosh oh golly I guess i better comply with this police warrant” says the company that actively engages in one of the largest tax fraud operations in human history.
I’m too dumb to know how it worked in the backend, but MPC-HC had some extensions back in the day that streamed YouTube videos to the client so it could interpolate frames for fake 60fps content. It even had a browser extension to launch MPC-HC with the right configs from a youtube video.
A lot of the blog seems to be focussed on the migration to megi’s kernel over Pine64’s. I think there’s discussion to be had on why that happened, because I can’t imagine it was inevitable that everyone would just migrate to a private user’s repo without good reason.
Exactly. Thanks to raspberry pis and other ARM SBCs there’s been a lot of ARM native support on Linux. Windows really hurt themselves with their initial ARM support.
I could be wrong but that might be Linux only. Windows and MacOS both have their own proprietary compatibility layers, but Windows had shit support for theirs for years which hurt their reputation badly.