Size isn’t an issue imo. Applications are bulky for many more reasons than their packaging formats.
Size isn’t an issue imo. Applications are bulky for many more reasons than their packaging formats.
Interesting, didn’t know it was feasible to make the distribution open.
That doesn’t give me much to complain about in theory, but canonical has lost way too much good faith to give people a reason to keep open snap distribution going for free. They should definitely consider hosting an open store just to get people on board again.
Nothing in theory makes that an issue of flatpaks and snap, just that both rely on different means to interact with the host system that have been woefully slow to implement. If enough protocols are developed a flatpak or snap should be as capable as a native app with the safety benefits for free.
Honestly if not for the convoluted Linux FS layout, debs would be pretty serviceable and aren’t really different to the Windows solution. The fs layout makes installations way too fickle to clashing with other applications.
That and dependency hell, which distros should have never been allowed to touch beyond the core dependencies required to get your desktop running.
Nothing necessarily at the tech level. They’re more capable than Appimages or flatpaks to the point that you can use it to build a reproducible system hardened against tampering or defective updates.
The downside is that it’s controlled entirely by canonical, has limited abilities (if any?) for hosting storefronts/packages outside of their ecosystem, and said ecosystem is insecure and has already allowed multiple waves of malicious apps to reach end users because of poor moderation of listings masquerading as legitimate versions.
Canonical has also been increasingly hostile to flatpaks - removing it from Ubuntu and derivatives by default to push users towards snap.
The whole loopfs thing is just an annoyance, but the aggressive posturing by canonical as well as the closed nature of the storefront that has led to malicious attacks on end users is enough to give it more than a few haters.
I much prefer our modern package format solutions:
Yup. Some are pretty advanced now.
China has announced a ban on Gacha game mechanics (and lootboxes, predatory discounts, and gambling) which should hopefully ripple out to Europe and the US soon.
A lot of these mechanics were adapted from the Chinese gaming market and I think the same will likely happen in the reverse.
We had to convince my brother in law (13yo) to not spend his birthday money of £85 on Genshin impact skins. Kids are fucked by advertising man
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Intel was struggling beyond the oxidation stuff. ARM and RISC are gonna make them obsolete even if AMD doesn’t.
I pray people with a victim blaming complex like this seek therapy before it’s too late.
Thing is, even if they can control musk they can’t necessarily control other companies that are trying to compete. There’s more than a few sources of radio waves in LEO now, starlink is just the largest for now.
And if there isn’t, nothing is stopping any government with the funds from stuffing a bunch of high powered radio transmitters to satellites to blast X or Y region to deter stealth aircraft
Not just killed US air superiority, but potentially made thousands of soviet-era launchers capable of cheap modernization to counter 5th generation stealth craft.
It would make it possible for dozens of non-state actors to recreate the Yugoslav Nighthawk incident.
based Elon??
doing a small shop while lifting so you have a valid receipt, a valid excuse (oops I forgot to scan xyz) and largely avoids suspicion. most people have a stereotype of how a lifter looks or acts which gives you an instant advantage if you just act like a regular customer
Even if it’s a bad idea on the face of it, surely having national news plastered with “third party influences two party state policy for first time” would be beneficial for said party based? (if it worked of course)
““left wing”” because he supports Ukraine
The same kernel software cryptography could certainly be marketed for single player games and proprietary applications as a solution to piracy.
Don’t like kernel anti cheat in your multiplayer games? here’s kernel anticheat for your single player games!
Spotube uses the Spotify API for playlists but YouTube PipeAPI and other sources for music streaming.