On 11 Nov 2023 09:35 +0000, from lbrt...@gmail.com (Albretch Mueller): > On 11/11/23, to...@tuxteam.de <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: >> In which case you aren't the customer, but the cattle. > > Once we go into exposed mode (go online), we tacitly become all > cattle, don't we?
Believe it or not, but there actually are companies which provide online (marketing speak: "cloud") services which _don't_ treat you as the product to be sold. Generally those tend to be more expensive than options which monetize the person using the service (generally by in various ways selling that person's attention to advertisers). > On 11/11/23, Marco <m...@dorfdsl.de> wrote: >> Why can't you install it manually, maybe with a script? > > Yes, of course, you can always do so. I meant it would be best if > certain security issues are dealt on a hardware level. It may sound as > "paranoid", "crazy" to you, but I always go into exposed mode using a > Debian Live DVD, basically: If you want your live environment to contain additional things, such as the "extra stuff [you] need" and "the drivers to be able to connect to the Internet", nothing prevents you from customizing your live image to include those. The live images distributed by the Debian project are intended primarily to cater to a typical user who wants to try out Debian in a low-risk manner. They aren't really intended for situations where one needs every last bit of something, whatever that is. If you want to customize the live image to better meet your particular needs, here are a few links to get you started. I found all of these with a web search for "customize debian live cd". https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/customizing-package-installation.en.html#449 https://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Modify/CD https://wiki.debian.org/LiveCD If you need more help with this, I recommend checking out the debian-live mailing list at https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/ -- Michael Kjörling 🔗 https://michael.kjorling.se “Remember when, on the Internet, nobody cared that you were a dog?”