By recycle it, do you mean throw it in the blue bin? Because if so that's not really recycling. That's just choosing to throw it in an overseas landfill instead of a local one.
Yes Judaism is a religion but being "Jewish" isn't. It's an ethno-religion. There are actually quite a few atheist Jews in the world.
Being Jewish doesn't actually necessitate you practicing Judaism. You can actually take a DNA test and prove if you are Jewish, but no DNA test can prove if you go to Temple.
So to answer you question. Yes and no, depending on what you're asking.
People who deploy professionally / on scale / create customs images for other things are tech savvy enough and know how to disable SSH - no need to have it disabled by default.
I think you've solved your own problem. The people that are savvy enough to do it know how to enable it and it's not a real impact to them. But by disabling it, the people that don't are protected. Which is why this is a standard practice across Linux distros.
None of this forces you to use their imager though... It's barely a hoop, most people running multiple pi's as servers will have done this for a reason other than ssh anyway.
And yes one solution to this security problem is to require changing the username and password, the more effective solution is to not have the process running at all, unless specifically enabled. I'm sure that sentence sounds familiar from your company's security team.
Raspberry pi's serve a lot of purposes, many of those purposes don't need ssh. But if you enable it by default that opens the pi up to being a target, which we saw be a huge problem before this change.
Also, this is not the only distribution that has ssh disabled by default. It's just the only popular distribution I'm aware of that doesn't have a server image option 🤷♂️ it's actually standard security procedure.
For example, if you install Ubuntu desktop, it'll have ssh disabled, because it is standard. Pretty much any distro should do this as well as long as it's not their "server" ISO.
In any case it's a good practice to backup your images regardless of what hardware you're running on, especially if you're running a cluster, it allows for easy reproduction across the cluster.
Then if you don't want to do that every time, just create an image for it. That's your new image to flash onto the SD cards.
There's nothing stopping you from not using the imager. dd works just fine. There's no telemetry on the OS itself, so here's how you personally get what you're looking for.
dd the base image to a card
verify the card and image are working properly by booting on a pi
turn off pi
insert card into computer and create file in boot directory
create a new bootable backup image from the card, and save that on the computer it's plugged into, cloud or local backup storage you're running, whatever
dd that image as the base image for all new cards.
The only telemetry is pertaining to what the imager is burning to the card. So if you don't use the imager there's no telemetry, if you use the imager but disable telemetry, there's no telemetry, if you don't disable it, it just sends back what you're installing.
Pass, I'll take the cluster of raspberry pis for the same cost... For the purpose of self hosting my cluster is going to out perform your x86. Like why are you going to spend hundreds of dollars for an x86 that will do fine when you can spend $50 for a pi that will also do fine?
Then you can just cluster those pis and get redundancy
All you have to do is look at the present... Android phones don't have super long software support. Best you're looking at is maybe 5 years. So, the user saying 10 years is well past that mark.
The one time I took a train for a mid range distance, it cost like $250. That being said, I didn't have to drive through NYC traffic, deal with tolls, or deal with parking and had a lot of room to myself.
But it was also slow and $250 from Philly to NYC? Buhhhhh probably wouldn't again lol
Network: I constantly have problems with ipv6 connections to steam on Linux, try disabling ipv6. It's counterintuitive to have ipv4 run faster and more stable than 6 but for whatever reason that's a thing.
I use hatchbox, they have plenty of colors and I haven't had any quality issues with them. Probably only like 2 bucks a roll more than the cheap stuff anyway
This would be replacing KDE or GNOME, that being said you can still use tooling from either if you wish but for the most part the DE you're using tooling from would be wasted disk space
Is Hyprland overrated? Are there any other alternatives?