Flatpak to the rescue!
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Installing a PDF reader should not forcibly install Udisks2 and upower.
A lot of commenters are upset that maintainers are being removed from the equation. Can't each distro just set up their own maintained repository? If I understand correctly, there's nothing about flatpak that actually prevents traditional maintaining. The only thing distros have to do is integrate flatpak, set up their own repository as default, and note that user should use other repositories at their own risk. Which is basically how things already work.
Is there a valid reason to hate flatpak itself, or are you all just too caught up in hating change to actually evaluate it?
I found a project similar to this, but unfortunately I can't find it again. Rawdog is a little rough around the edges, but worth a try.
I handle this by subdividing my feeds into useful categories- a feature which every RSS client supports.
My friend's blogs are placed in a category alongside other low-volume feeds. I never miss a post.
And this is precisely why it's insane and counterproductive to have unread counts on an RSS feed.
Don't obsess over reading every last article. It's a feed. Read what looks interesting. Let other things go. Don't track what you've read or what you've missed. There's nothing down that path but frustration and stress.
And yet, almost no RSS developers see the wisdom in this, and they prefer to embrace the dumb idea with open arms.
I personally just install termux, which allows you to install openssh. Run sshd and then you can use rsync or scp or sshfs or other from the host PC.
When you extract the audio by literally scraping a piece of metal across the surface- every time you play a vinyl, you degrade it. The "warm" quality of the audio proponents talk about is just noise introduced by the degrading material.
When CDs were new, many of them were mastered poorly. So there is a very specific few years where you want the vinyl instead of the CD. That's the most you can say for vinyl.
/tangent
You almost certainly need to exercise, because your body will adapt to simply eating less. When it can't adapt, you're probably starving yourself, which is unhealthy and ineffective for long term weight loss.
Since flatpak provides security benefits, instead of removing Gnome software, he should have been removing duplicate packages from his package manager.
It's too disgusting to share.
Seeing a lot of antivaxxer type logic being employed here in the comments.
- Relative unportability - Poor noncompliant sh interpreter - Poor performance (can be 4x slower than POSIX sh shells like dash for certain tasks)
I personally think bash is always the wrong choice. Use POSIX sh (or a real language). POSIX sh is 98% the same thing, there's no good reason to even use bash over sh in the vast majority of cases. It's just this blight that won't go away.
Given that bash is mostly sh anyway, most of this writeup applies to sh, too. AFAIK the only thing bash-specific here is arrays.
The Wii and Wii U and DS have dozens of these stupid "quirks" which are the result of Nintendo just not knowing how to do things correctly. The reason I didn't buy a switch was because I was so infuriated by the Wii U's incompetence that I was certain the switch would bring me nothing but misery. I'm feeling pretty smug and validated right about now. This isn't the first of the switch's failures, either.
Nintendo are just miserably incompetent at firmware and software, I really wish they would just back some other hardware company to make the console for them, and Nintendo themselves should just focus on making games.
Better yet, Nintendo should just make their "fun" peripherals for PC, mobile, and existing consoles, and release their titles cross platform. Yes I'm bitter.
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/making-it-easier-for-f-droid-to-...
Default boot into OS #1. If I want any other OS, I manipulate efi bootnext (efibootmgr -n #### && reboot).
So much simpler and more efficient.
I'm looking forward to flatpak, and I currently use firejail + liberal use of `chromium --user-data-dir=~/.config/chromium-<website>`.
Because web-app based software and web-services I frequently interact with (slack, gitter, discord, twitter) should absolutely be separated from my general browser, and from each other. Most methods of web tracking and phishing/XSS attacks will be neutered in this setup.
And because my browser, and all of these separated services, should not have unfettered access to my system and personal files.
I don't think I will bother with containers for general software, but web services are an attack vector and should be treated as such, even at the expense of complexity over simplicity.
Frankly, the notion of simplicity was out the window the moment we started using the web as a development platform.
How the hell do slack, discord, and gitter STILL not collapse their sidebars when you resize the containing window to be tall and narrow? It makes them unusable in a tiling WM, and it's generally disrespectful of screen real estate in any WM.
This is the price of easily accessible development. We're doomed to relive past mistakes in UI, as new developers are blissfully unaware of lessons learned by existing frameworks.
Many people here are saying electron is popular because of a lack of sane, consistent toolkits across each OS. There's also security to think of too. Electron is likely very insecure relative to native software, but the responsibility is purely on the electron devs: freeing the app developer of that burdon. Electron rose in an environment with no competition in that regard. But now, Windows has UWP, and Mac has their own app platform. I sincerely hope we see these more universally leveraged, such that developers will stop abusing the web for app development.
And I guess Linux will just have to make a WINE for UWP, I can't imagine the Linux community coming together to create something like that for themselves.
9 times out of 10, a github project fixes my bug report very quickly.
Half the time I'll send an email to a closed source project and never hear back about it.
FOSS is also doing well in an era where proprietary clients mean crappy electron clients. That's a low bar to beat.
Unlucky for me, my admins refuse to enable the bridges and also won't grant me an API key for use with the weechat slack plugin.
I hate Slack so much. Slow and miserable and unconfigurable and just crashes at least once a month.
After all, if even one seeder is online somewhere in the world, a torrent is accessible and cannot be deleted. Does bittorrent have the potential infringe on someone's right to be forgotten?
ipfs operates in a similar way (peers and seeds).
Because even in the infrastructure we have today, objects aren't truly "deleted" for quite some time, at least not where CDNs and Google and Facebook and others are involved.
As I understand it, nothing can be truly deleted, you only need to know what the hash of the object was and chances are it will still be accessible in cache for quite some time.
I'm not shy about installing updates, but if I'm busy working I would delay it a couple times. Then I'd not use the laptop for a few days (with it in sleep mode), by then I'd have forgotten about the update. I was bitten by forced reboots in 7 many times.
8 added a "Your PC will reboot in 15 minutes" and that was so much better from a laptop perspective. W10 insider builds currently tell you to set "inactive hours", and this works fairly well for both phone and laptop. My phone updates while I sleep, my laptop pings me to reboot at my leisure, for it is never awake & inactive.
There is always push back by companies, but it seems that the general trend is always in favor of the consumer (see, rooting your phone is found legal, this video concerning the legality of modifying cars and tractors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nps24EqiZjY )