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Tails no longer recommending balenaEtcher (tails.net)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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I am shocked by this - the quote in below is very concerning:

"However, in 2024, the situation changed: balenaEtcher started sharing the file name of the image and the model of the USB stick with the Balena company and possibly with third parties."

Can't see myself using this software anymore...

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Can always use dd but I always go stupid when I need to set boot flags and all that crap, which is so much easier with etcher. I think I've done dd with gparted in the past.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    i've never needed to set a single flag with dd. i just do if=the_iso of=the_disk. what flags?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Don't you need to mark usb disks as bootable if you want to boot from them to install Linux or whatever

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    i think it depends on the image you get - for archlinux you can simply cat (or dd) the file onto a usb stick and it works perfectly fine, bootable. but i think i have seen an image at some point where it didn't work, but i don't recall what it was.

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