dist-upgrade and full-upgrade are essentially the same command but yeah, I won't be using apt upgrade again in the future! Like I said in my post, the joys of being self taught is that you learn by my making mistakes and that's part of the "fun" 🤣
TheIPW
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Glad you found it useful. I'm the same, I can't stand those long posts that make you read a life story before getting to the commands, even worse when a page is riddled by ads or behind a paywall!
I figured if I’d missed it, a few other people probably had too.
I've not come across this with my non Debian based systems. Only use Debian for servers because it's so stable, Arch and Fedora everywhere else!
I think that’s a dangerous assumption to make. If the OS is tied to your physical identity, the 'VPN' layer becomes much less of a shield. Once the kernel level is 'compliant' with an ID check, the metadata being leaked or even the hardware ID itself makes anonymity a lot harder to maintain.
You’re right about the social media risk, but the OS is the foundation. If you give up the keys to the house, it doesn't matter how many extra locks you put on the individual room doors. That 'disappointing risk' is exactly how the 'invisible borders' start getting built.
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BrowserGate: Technical breakdown of LinkedIn’s covert browser extension fingerprinting
(the.unknown-universe.co.uk)
No, apt isn’t just a rename. apt upgrade largely replaces apt-get upgrade, but it’s a bit more aggressive: it may install new packages if required as dependencies (it still won’t remove packages). If an upgrade needs to remove packages to resolve dependencies, use apt full-upgrade (same as apt-get dist-upgrade).