boot error, cannot upgrade kernel

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sun, 9 Jan 2022 07:56:11 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
>On 1/9/22 3:53 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> Google. Always Google. Google for advice on how to fix it.  
>
>never ask google if you value your privacy, use something like
>duckduckgo...


Hi,

this is asking for a lot of sentences including a "but".

If you care for privacy, don't connect your computer to the Internet,
or at least carefully check all software installed by official
repositories of what ever Linux distro you are using, since even some
LINUX FLOSS software does collect data, usually without any ulterior bad
motive. However, some software such as e.g. Ardour can be compiled and
packaged with or without phone home activation. Sure, upstream of
software such as Ardour unlikely sells data to third parties and much
likely only does use anonymised data to improve the software, but
privacy already is touched, even if you consider it tolerable when
doing it anonymised, only to improve the software.

Nobody does like Google for very good reasons, but the Google search
engine is the best search engine to get useful hints related to Linux,
if you don't have a clue. What is making the Google search engine such
a bad thing OTOH is an advantage, if you are missing knowledge on how
to search the web for the needed help. To my knowledge there's no other
search engine that tends to still return useful hits, even when using
the most naive and misleading search terms.

Yes, the search terms you are using related to "boot error, cannot
upgrade kernel" likely allows the Google AI to draw conclusions about
your "family life", "earnings" etc. and I do understand that you (me
too) don't want to share this information with Google. OTOH is this
information a secret at all?

"Try to be less blind" - Living colour-This is the life

I'm absolutely pro fighting Google and everything else wrong on this
planet, but always with focus on reality and the most relevant issues.

I always come back to the Google search engine, but I don't do this all
day through, since I don't own a Smartphone for very good reasons.

IOW I would be way more concerned using whatsoever search engine on a
Smartphone wherever you are, than using Google on a hand full of
locations, from different machines. Even if DuckDuckGo shouldn't track
you, somebody collects your DuckDuckGo search terms anyway and aligns
it to your Smartphone = to you and where you are at what time of the
day.

Btw. from another thread ("google chrome wants me to update to new
version"):
>https://privacytests.org/

It is probably a good starting point, but doesn't say very much about
the real privacy. For more information regarding pitfalls when using
TOR, I recommend reading information provided by the TOR project and as
already mentioned, it makes a difference by what device you are using a
dedicated browser, search engine or whatsoever.

Regards,
Ralf