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Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
on Friday February 12, 2021 @11:21AM (#26115269)
Other good reasons to move away from Ubuntu:
* They show you ads on login
* They periodically phone home with: Ubuntu version, kernel version, architecture, CPU model, curl/wget version, cloud (if applicable; aws/openstack/...). This is part of the delivery system of the ads mentioned above. See /etc/update-motd.d/50-motd-news for the actual script.
Re:“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure”
on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:44AM (#26114873)
Up until a few years ago, something similar used to happen when you bought a TV set here in Sweden.
If you bought one, your information was shared with the entity ("Radiotjänst") in charge of collecting the mandatory TV fee (funding public service radio and TV programming).
The fee is now collected as tax instead, so that's no longer the case.