BalenaEtcher pw prompt not accepting my superuser pw

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That should be first thing someone need to receive on any question about Etcher.

Heads up on Etcher

I found the previous post, it starts here is if anyone wants to read it: I would stress that while there are real privacy issues they are pretty far from the worst I have ever seen. For many, what they are doing is well within the bounds of acceptable. The bigger issue for me is the way in which the company handled it and their casual disregard for it being an important issue. Of course you haven’t. The nature of privacy leaks is that they do what they do in a way that isn’t obvious un…

Heads up on Etcher

Frankly, the whole concept of Balena Etcher is utterly absurd to me. It’s a program that writes image files to drives. That’s all it does. That is its main, and only, purpose: to write image files to drives. The size of that simple, single purpose program, however, is 223.5 MiB (at least the version in Manjaro repos). 223.5 MiB! dd does exactly the same thing, plus much more. The size of dd is 75 KiB, and that’s dd from the GNU Utils, i.e. one of the most bloated versions of dd i…