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Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

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Post by creshal » Tue, Apr 05, 2016, 1:27 PM UTC

grinich wrote: post #108

creshal wrote: post #35

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Do they have actual terms of service by now? When I tried it, I was signed up to their newsletter by simply entering a mail address into the account setup dialog, without any indication that I was opting in to have my personal data harvested and abused.

There was a (really bad) bug in one of our releases that did this. You must have connected then-- sorry. We're a small team moving fast and occasionally we screw up like this. FWIW, it now correctly asks you in the setup flow and you can add/remove yourself in the preferences: https://i7.createsend1.com/ei/d/A1/835/432/153754/csfinal/pr...

Oh, now that I complain publicly about it I finally get an apology, instead of passive-aggressive "it's all your own fault really, stop caring about PII and just unsubscribe" mails from your staff.

You might want to think over how you communicate with your customers. Customer privacy isn't something you can just shrug away.

Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

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Post by grinich » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 3:37 AM UTC

creshal wrote: post #121

grinich wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a (really bad) bug in one of our releases that did this. You must have connected then-- sorry. We're a small team moving fast and occasionally we screw up like this. FWIW, it now correctly asks you in the setup flow and you can add/remove yourself in the preferences: https://i7.createsend1.com/ei/d/A1/835/432/153754/csfinal/pr...

Oh, now that I complain publicly about it I finally get an apology, instead of passive-aggressive "it's all your own fault really, stop caring about PII and just unsubscribe" mails from your staff. You might want to think over how you communicate with your customers. Customer privacy isn't something you can just shrug away.

Again, sorry about that. Feel free to ping directly if you have other questions. We've had such a huge response after releasing N1 that we definitely haven't figured out the ideal way to communicate with users.

Relatedly, if anyone reading is interested in a full time developer relations/evangelist role at a small startup, please send me a note! :)

Re: Apricity OS: A Beautiful Arch Linux Distro

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Post by meddlepal » Wed, Apr 06, 2016, 8:57 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #111

meddlepal wrote: post #105

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How is NixOS as a workstation/desktop/laptop OS? Does it have any major issues with hardware I'd run into?

2015 release used kernel 3.18, some drivers were lagging[1] so I went back to arch. But the latest 2016.03 release is now on 4.4, I'm about to try. I saw many people saying they were happy using nixos on twitter. It's a paradigm shift that require a good deal of RTFM. Felt like the first time I used linux somehow. [1] my wifi chip took minutes to initialize due to proprietary blob issues.

Awesome, thanks for the info!