Itgirlscout - IT Girl Scout

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me deleting my posts cuz my other personality saw it and didn't like it

The trick is to change your root mount to use the snapshot subvolume instead

btrfs tip for y'all: use subvolumes. restoring a snapshot of a subvolume is as simple as duplicating the snapshot as readwrite, deleting/moving the old subvolume and renaming the copy to the subvolume's name

restoring a snapshot of the root subvolume is. harder

really important lesson from Sailor Moon that a lot of people don't pick up on: if you know a girl who's lazy, whiny, immature, and wants to waste all her time playing video games--it might be because she's the reincarnated princess of a forgotten mystical kingdom so show some respect.

party rockers in their bed tonight. every body just have a good night

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

hey, privacy concerned folks,

DON'T USE BALENA ETCHER TO USB YOUR ISOs

As @tailsos-official stated in their blog post, it displays ads which is weird for a simple disk imaging tool and more important:

It shares your IP address, the file name of the image the model of the USB stick and a bunch of other things with the Balena company and third parties.

On Windows, use Rufus instead. It's pretty neat.

On Mac, use the Raspberry Pi Imager. It does its job. Or if you don't mind the terminal, use dd. It's built-in.

On Linux you can use dd, or whatever comes with your DE. Or whatever else you prefer. We got options.

You can also use Ventoy and just chuck all your ISOs on it. No need to reformat your usb drives again just for a new boot stick. One USB to rule them all.

sources under the cut

GitLab

Investigate the outgoing network connections of Etcher (#16381) · Issues · tails / tails · GitLab

balenaEtcher exfiltrates very sensitive information about its users to the Balena company and probably to more third-parties. For example:

balena.io

Privacy Statement - balena