Tails - Replacing balenaEtcher with Rufus as installer for Windows
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/26220818

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…

  • @LWD@lemm.ee
    16•29 days ago

    Etcher was a good piece of software. As soon as Balena bought it and stuffed their name in front, things started going south. I wish the weird name and shift to an unintuitive icon were the only things that had happened…

  • @AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
    12•29 days ago

    Isn’t Balena’s entire business model taking things that could easily run locally and wedging a cloud dependency in to allow them to be profitably enshittified?

  • UlrichEnglish
    6•29 days ago

    There are like a dozen other ways to do what Etcher does so… 🤷

    • AZERTY
      5•29 days ago

      You can enable a persistent volume on the start up screen or use it where it wipes on reboot.

  • @Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2•20 days ago

    I never really understood why etcher was the choice, it was a crazy bloated program that was like 100 or 150mb? To do the same job as Rufus could do in like a dozen or so, and if you’re on Linux you can just use gnome disks or something, never had any issues there either. Just made no sense to me why they recommended it in the first place.