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I think we're broadly in agreement here, and I think both our statements are important to the Linux discussion. Moreover, we're not speaking privately - I wish I could direct recent converts from Windows to this thread as a whole, as you offer good advice - be wary of your sources & learning how to inspect gifts you're offered is excellent advice.

This is absolutely a shortcoming of Arch - but I don't see it getting fixed soon. Your change is practical, and could reduce the attack surface for bad actors, but it also introduces gatekeeping and would slow down time from code change to deployment. The open community and blazing fast end-to-end turnaround are both Arch key features (in my opinion).

If you prefer more vetted code, there's other great distros (Debian leaps to mind).

But honestly - yes, some people got hurt - but it was addressed in a day. That's not a bad turnaround ~ I've certainly seen that damage wrought by Windows- and iOS-based malware run at least that long.

This can be seen as the system working as intended. Please don't run Arch on mission critical systems. There's other distros for that. While this vulnerability is Arch-specific, this OS is often a canary for others. But if you can tolerate being on the frontier, Arch is very well documented and is great for learning - and yes it has some risk.

This made me laugh. Not wrong though!

That is a decent advertising model. Feels like it's been a while since I've seen one of those

People are complicated and FOSS isn't as simple as all or nothing.

Sometimes people have things setup before they discovered FOSS - it's hard for me to give up my gmail account from age 14, even though I run my own domain now.

Sometimes FOSS gets captured - Microsoft owns githib now, which makes tough decisions for all the projects hosted there.

They're usually (usually) not the same individuals, but the evil ones deliberately use the "good" ones as a shield. They're a happy to rally as Christians to any attack from outside the religion, but will write off abuses they see internally as "not my church".

They all have Sunday brain. Living one life Sunday morning that's just disconnected from their choices they make the rest of the week.

But, that's indoctrination for you. The most infuriating part is when otherwise good & great people decide that calling themselves Christian, setting themselves up as human shields for all the abusive controlling monsters among their number. They'll say the monster is 'a sinner' and 'doesn't represent our values' while rushing to the defense of Christianity. They'd rather white-wash the Christian label than fix the structural abuse done by by 'their neighbors' (but it's never their church that's the problem).

Don't forget people of any color but white having any kind of fun. That's shameful, too!

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The people making the rules know this. They just … in their Christian nationalist hearts believe porn shouldn't exist. And since there's too much precedent to simply make it illegal (they've tried before). So here they're trying to make watching it as painful and degrading as humanly possible.

In other words, you're not wrong - just preaching to the choir.

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I should have remembered that. I had to lend my card out to my friend who was in a credit lock at the time they needed a rental. Still, I don't think my advice is invalid, just irrelevant here.

It's about who's lawyers you can rally to your defense in a dispute.

With a credit card you're spending the bank's money. If you can convince the bank you're in the right, it's you and the bank's lawyers recovering the bank's money.

As a debit card user, the banks will support your legal rights, because it's good business for your clients to prosper. While the bank's lawyers won't go to bat for you, many will be willing to give you quasi-legal and quasi-financial tidbits or point you in the right direction.

As the bank's client's employee, you're basically on your own. Good luck.