Emotional (he/him)

I’ve tried Etcher many times and I feel like I’ve had issues every time, unfortunately. I don’t remember the exact issues, but I recall both having problems with writing ISOs and with booting them. I would highly recommend Rufus instead, which has been much more consistent for me.

I’m not particularly worried about those vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, they are pretty common AFAIK, but at-least they pretty much only open a backdoor within whatever network you’re connected to, and can be mitigated with a VPN.

IMO, there’s much bigger reasons to be worried about RedNote than security or even privacy.

I’m not an electrician, but I recall that this video explains it pretty well (along with other interesting things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_q-xnYRugQ