Tails - Replacing balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows
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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…

  • 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒆𝒍English
    9•2 months ago

    i still had issues using 150MB electron based bloated and heavy software instead of rufus, not that it worked for me anyway

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 months ago

      I only tried to use it once, and same. 150MB of a Web app to copy an ISO? I think I was using a Macbook to flash it and decided to use ventoy instead, with my PC.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 months ago

        I understand that it needed a GUI, but 150 megs?? When :

        ~ 
❯ ll `which dd`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 63K Sep 29 16:36 /usr/bin/dd*

~ 
❯
        • @[email protected]
          1•2 months ago

          Yeah Mac has dd too, I often forget about the terminal existing there. I wish Ventoy for Mac was a thing tho.