The Linux foundation seems ready to finally axe a Microsoft-made remote network protocol for USB that is still a part of modern Windows operating systems.
Also you can still use the NMC protocol if your Android version is recent enough.
Yea but it’s not a justification.
It’s an insecure Microsoft protocol, though this probably wouldn’t have mattered for a lot of people.
That’s why a DE warning would be enough. Linux is just making terrible decisions recently. I guess it’ll continue until major maintainer changes take place and that won’t happen without life losses because nobody is going to leave the project so we might lose many of the Linux’s benefits in a few years imo.
A DE has little to do with this, it’s a driver, it gets loaded when you plug in a compatible device, there’s no interaction. This should have been disabled 2 years ago when the gaping security holes were found, and actually Greg had attempted to have it disabled in 2022 but it kept getting pushed back.
Uhm 2 years ago a14 was just released. There were pretty much no devices with it. Even though the protocol is unsafe, it’s a good feature and killing desktop features just pushes Linux back.
Also a DE has stuff to do with it. It should be able to detect the connection and send a notification about it being potentially unsafe. Killing it is just a stupid move done by rich folks with latest flagships for rich folks with latest flagships.
That was its name on my old Sony phone though.
Yea but it’s not a justification.
That’s why a DE warning would be enough. Linux is just making terrible decisions recently. I guess it’ll continue until major maintainer changes take place and that won’t happen without life losses because nobody is going to leave the project so we might lose many of the Linux’s benefits in a few years imo.
A DE has little to do with this, it’s a driver, it gets loaded when you plug in a compatible device, there’s no interaction. This should have been disabled 2 years ago when the gaping security holes were found, and actually Greg had attempted to have it disabled in 2022 but it kept getting pushed back.
Uhm 2 years ago a14 was just released. There were pretty much no devices with it. Even though the protocol is unsafe, it’s a good feature and killing desktop features just pushes Linux back.
Also a DE has stuff to do with it. It should be able to detect the connection and send a notification about it being potentially unsafe. Killing it is just a stupid move done by rich folks with latest flagships for rich folks with latest flagships.