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lundmar:

--- Quote from: electrodacus on March 16, 2022, 05:48:38 pm ---Sorry for the super long rambling. I was triggered by the "security updates"

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Ha ha, yes - that was quite a ramble triggered by you confusing "security updates" with "automatic updates".

I'm no distro shopper - that is something you do when you are learning Linux. I've been running Ubuntu Linux exclusively since 2004 and my installations have never installed system security updates automatically - that is an opt in feature.

Either way, you have to be careful with any connected product you buy in this IoT era to protect your privacy and that is exactly why it is even more important to keep up with security updates. It would be foolish to insist on running old software with known vulnerabilities that makes you the easy target of a long list of CVEs.

electrodacus:

--- Quote from: lundmar on March 16, 2022, 10:20:50 pm ---Ha ha, yes - that was quite a ramble triggered by you confusing "security updates" with "automatic updates".

I'm no distro shopper - that is something you do when you are learning Linux. I've been running Ubuntu Linux exclusively since 2004 and my installations have never installed system security updates automatically - that is an opt in feature.

Either way, you have to be careful with any connected product you buy in this IoT era to protect your privacy and that is exactly why it is even more important to keep up with security updates. It would be foolish to insist on running old software with known vulnerabilities that makes you the easy target of a long list of CVEs.

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:) I do not think I confused security updates and automatic updates.  The main reason automatic updates are a thing is supposedly for security when that may actually be the opposite.

I also started playing with Linux around the same time frame early 2000's first attempting to install RedHat (was not a fan) but then I found a way more user friendly Knoppix Live CD version that I installed and gave up using Windows at home then I got a Ubuntu Live CD (was testing many other versions) and was supper impressed with the out of the box hardware support.

The problem is bad quality software to begin with and just patching vulnerabilities when the become public will not solve much if anything.
I for example disable Hyper Threading ever since the vulnerability related to that where announced but there are so many more than can not be fixed by any software patch.
There will be no choice very soon in what you buy as everything will be internet connected and as my Airthing device can not be used without.
So while you still have control now on auto-updates in Linux it will not be long until they will be mandatory. Maybe at first just security related updates then all the others.

Kibabalu:

--- Quote from: optotester on February 03, 2022, 04:13:10 pm ---...

I will release a binary soon.

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Any news regarding the binary for macOS?

lundmar:

--- Quote from: Kibabalu on August 21, 2022, 04:14:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: optotester on February 03, 2022, 04:13:10 pm ---...

I will release a binary soon.

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Any news regarding the binary for macOS?

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I hope that someone eventually will maintain a package for brew so it becomes easy to install on mac. Also, to get it working on mac someone needs to adapt the mDNS backend for mac (Bonjour etc.).

lundmar:
FYI - I've just released lxi-tools v2.2 which includes various updates, bug fixes, and a new popular requested feature which allows for adding instruments manually in case they are not discoverable.

Full release details are available here: https://github.com/lxi-tools/lxi-tools/releases/tag/v2.2

As usual, snap version is available immediately, distributions will take some time to update.

Happy hacking!

/Martin

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