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by curt15 2y ago
>But when I use apt to install something, and the OS silently installs a snap version instead Does `apt remove` remove the snap?
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by curt15 2y ago
I'm surprised this isn't happening more in the election campaigns.
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by curt15 2y ago
What's driving users away is not snap but rather Canonical's heavy-handed way of foisting snap on users that would make Microsoft proud.
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by curt15 2y ago
What foreign ally steals terabytes of data about top-of-the-line weapons programs like the F-22 and F-35? https://www.sandboxx.us/news/the-man-who-stole-americas-stea...
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by curt15 2y ago
Hasn't Framework been struggling to ship firmware updates? It would be better if they use the money to patch up their fundamentals before expanding.
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by curt15 2y ago
The key point for someone "who wants full control over my system" is that *you*, the end user, have the final say over what programs are entitled to.
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by curt15 2y ago
I second the Silverblue suggestion. With its image-based updates and read-only rootfs, it's the Linux distro most akin to ChromeOS.
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by curt15 2y ago
>I couldn't switch my dad to Linux because his favourite game (DX-Ball) didn't run and he didn't like lbreakout2 or the other alternative, so I made a DX-Ball clone, when that was done, I switched his PC to Linux. That&#x2
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by curt15 3y ago
NYC has Mullvad VPN ads in the subway.
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by curt15 3y ago
>Just like we used to say the cloud is really just someone else’s computer. I still describe cloud computing as renting someone else's computers.
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by curt15 3y ago
What's the SDK story for Cosmic? Do they provide an alternative to GTK/Glib/GIO?
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by curt15 3y ago
>The package manager can't, but the distro can. The package manager is a technology, while the distro is a set of people and policies. It's fairer to compare distros with Flathub, the most popular repository for flatpaks (altho
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by curt15 3y ago
Typical package managers also can't tell you if an app bundles its own library. Whether an app runs on a flatpak runtime or directly on your host system, some reliable eyeballs need to inspect the app's bill of materials.
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by curt15 3y ago
Related: https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/apple-warns...
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by curt15 3y ago
"I have sometimes wondered whether a brain like von Neumann's does not indicate a species superior to that of man" - Hans Bethe
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by curt15 3y ago
Doesn't git use GPG to sign commits?
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by curt15 3y ago
If China blocks western sites, why do western sites allow connections from Chinese IP addresses?
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by curt15 3y ago
AMD has a CPU division too, and Zen basically resurrected AMD against Intel.
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by curt15 3y ago
Bcachefs has not advertised erasure coding as production ready only to renege on that claim later. So nobody has been unwittingly burned yet.
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by curt15 3y ago
Wouldn't Americans find life behind the GFW pretty suffocating?
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by curt15 3y ago
Will package managers remove all traces of the old DE? Back in the day, `apt remove kde-desktop` would not reliably reverse the effects of `apt install kde-desktop`.
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by curt15 3y ago
I use VSCode sometimes to click through a new codebase, but its memory consumption can be hard to swallow particularly when various LSP servers are running (looking at you terraform-ls).
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by curt15 3y ago
Why "sad"? Linux users have had to stomach second-class status in so many other software categories.
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by curt15 3y ago
Do you think there's a general lack of awareness or education these days about the world wide web? People who grew up with the internet couldn't get by without knowing the possibilities of websites and web browsers. Maybe I'm
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by curt15 3y ago
Does the version browser show a line-by-line diff? When I last used it ~10 yrs ago it displayed a fancy Time Machine-like interface that was useless for telling if I accidentally inserted a character in page 11.
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by curt15 3y ago
I still remember the apologists (circa 2011) trying to justify OS X's system-wide autosave feature when it came out despite its obvious pitfall -- users could make inadvertent edits to their documents without noticing. When users point
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by curt15 3y ago
>In the vast majority of cases, these are not your customers. These are apple's customers they have given you access to. Unless I am misreading somehow, this is an unusual position. Software developers don't sell their software
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by curt15 3y ago
Thanks, that link is chockful of useful tips!
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by curt15 3y ago
How do you deal with the lack of systemd in the container? Where do you put software that ship systemd unit files?
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by curt15 3y ago
Silverblue is itself a rebranding of "Fedora Atomic Workstation"

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