Microsoft DESTROYS Raspberry Pi OS
Microsoft PENETRATES Raspberry Pi OS
Microsoft FENESTRATES Raspberry Pi OS
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If this is an infiltration, well, just comment the repository from “/etc/apt/sources.list.d, and no more infiltration…
pi@raspberrypi:/etc/apt/sources.list.d $ cat vscode.list
### THIS FILE IS AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURED ###
# You may comment out this entry, but any other modifications may be lost.
deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf] http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main
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mcury EXFILTRATES Raspberry Pi OS
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I mean someone even pointed out in the comments to that very video that Rasberry does not anywhere specify that they won’t use closed source programs.
Maybe he needs to read the fine print and chose another hardware vendor. Like Intel… Oh wait.
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I removed it anyway.
Much cleaner than before 
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Just put EndeavourOS on it, then there is no worry - and no ducking to be done…
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Yes, but I’m so used to Debian. I’m not running a desktop environment or anything. More a server RPi.
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paranoia and inflammatory issues aside, I think the heart of the problem here (if there is one, which I’m not sure there is) is that the Microsoft repo was added without users knowing, so they didn’t have the opportunity to opt out.
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I have no problem with Microsoft! Or I have, many! But I run some computers with Windows at home. That’s not the point. But you should get some info before they do something like this in my opinion. So you get a choice whether you want to or don’t want it. In my case I do not want it, my RPi is only as DNS server.
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agreed, that’s the heart of the issue
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Switched to Linux made a clip about this too:
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