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by rlpb 4y ago
snapd 2.58 is available as an update recommended by default on Ubuntu going all the way back to 18.04. A standard "apt update && apt upgrade" will give you it. Unless you've gone out of your way to turn updates off.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> It's insane how long it takes them to fix bugs in their auto-update mechanism they've forced on everyone. You can disable auto-updates with eg. "snap refresh --hold firefox". See: https://snapcraft.io&#x2
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by rlpb 4y ago
> I would want the app to be updated in the background whilst it is running (which works fine for APT installed packages), so just closing it and re-opening it would get the newer version. The Firefox deb (such as in 20.04) became unusab
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by rlpb 4y ago
> The updates are currently awkward as they don't seem to work if the application is running The fix for this is currently being tested: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1980271 > before removing a
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by rlpb 4y ago
pwgen is great as a password generator, and is a tiny package.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> Analogous to “someone who will never be happy no matter what was said”, the tone of the press release will always be happy no matter what they have to say. So grow your own filter. But as another reply said, this press release still ha
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by rlpb 4y ago
Evince for PDF editing works fine for me, on Ubuntu. Are you sure you have a complete and recent build?
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by rlpb 4y ago
The fuel needed to get to take-off speed is a tiny fraction of the fuel needed to get from take-off to altitude. In practice, the benefit is for runway length only.
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by rlpb 4y ago
> Couldn't we, in theory, slingshot the planes into the air to achieve the same relative fuel burn rates ? The required release velocity would need to be so high that drag from air resistance (which increases with the square of velo
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by rlpb 4y ago
Have you just described a sleeper train?
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by rlpb 4y ago
That's not how the legal system works. The other party would claim that you are, the courts would believe them, and it'd be on you to deal with it. "It's not feasible" won't wash - especially if you don't
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by rlpb 4y ago
> PC hardware is still very much an industry of "I'll ask the enthusiast kid down the street what to buy" I don't think that applies to HP, and suspect that most of their customer base are big businesses who prefer bu
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by rlpb 4y ago
The current complaint about "advertising" is telling users about further updates that they can receive for free, because Canonical has customers paying to make them available. Telling users about updates that are available to them
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by rlpb 4y ago
I work for Canonical (but I'm speaking for myself; I'm not authorised to speak for Canonical anyway). I've been around in Free Software since the nineties. At that time, it seemed very much a hobbyist effort and entirely outs
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by rlpb 4y ago
AIUI, EU regulation requires 2FA in finance now, but the 2FA must also confirm details such as a target account and/or amount. Authenticator apps (at least those that use TOTP/HOTP) can't do that. SMS can. So can card readers
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by rlpb 4y ago
> what I'm saying is that I will generally go to the project's website "a la windows style", and either download whatever binary they provide, or preferably if possible compile from source. That is dangerous from a se
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by rlpb 4y ago
Those agreements usually permit the company to choose not to do business with you for any reason, including no reason. Usually that's fine since you can just use a competitor. But when a company has a significant market share and there
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by rlpb 4y ago
> * The infamous forced updates are a business decision, not a technical one. Canonical took a page from Microsoft by taking control away from the user only to sell it back in an "enterprise" edition of the product (see their B
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by rlpb 4y ago
Unlike Ubuntu, Pop doesn't really have full control over their users' experience, because their users are configured to consume directly from Ubuntu's repositories.
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by rlpb 4y ago
On the other hand, I repeatedly recommend that ordinary users do not install software from third party apt repositories unless they really really have to. Fundamentally they're a hack, don't work right, and often result in latent
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by rlpb 4y ago
> Apps installed as Snaps are slow to start-up. Why? Apparently this is fixed, though I think only on new snap package builds. Benchmarks are available that demonstrate that slow snap load times are no longer an issue (but the grapevine
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by rlpb 4y ago
> just fine as long as it’s advertised I completely agree, but would like to make the observation that if they're forced to advertise it properly, then something different is likely to happen. Businesses like to find places to give
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by rlpb 4y ago
So what we need is a dart with suction legs, a camera and an AI, which crawls over the outside of the car to the windshield and takes pictures of the driver :-)
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by rlpb 4y ago
It may be difficult to define a line, but I think a line needs to be drawn. When "platforms" editorialize content for the purposes of manipulating user behaviour, rather than merely to act in users' interests in helping them
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by rlpb 4y ago
Nobody is claiming that such methods do not exist, so naming them adds nothing to this thread.
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by rlpb 4y ago
This issue doesn't exist with Trio's structured concurrency model. In other words, the problem is already solved.
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by rlpb 4y ago
That's the inverse of my question. If Rust is going to replace things written in C, other stuff is going to want to dynamically link to it. A statically compiled Rust based replacement for an entire distribution isn't a realistic
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by rlpb 4y ago
How does Rust work with dynamic linking? I thought it didn't?
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by rlpb 4y ago
I had an engine failure the other day. Fortunately I managed to land safely. Turns out that the problem had been brewing for a while. A modern engine design would have told me about the failure before it happened. The 1970's engine des
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by rlpb 4y ago
That's a circular argument. Recreational flying is an expensive hobby because of the certification barrier. Most of the price is in fuel inefficiencies and expensive maintenance of ancient engine designs. Airframe parts are expensive

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