Dirk, 2 days ago

I never looked into flatseal and I don’t have any issues with Steam. But I wonder if flatseal can allow a Flatpak Java application to run systemctl poweroff.

Dirk, 4 days ago

Why the French, ONY-chan?

Dirk, 8 days ago

Maybe let go of this ancient hardware? Seriously: Get a Raspberry Pi (or whatever SOC computer is the latest trend) and install whatever distribution you want. You get 100x the performance for 100x less power consumption. It’s great to reuse old hardware and all, but THAT old?

Dirk, 11 days ago

Whenever AI is mentioned lots of people in the Linux space immediately react negatively.

Because whenever AI is mentioned it usually isn’t even close to what AI meant.

Dirk, 12 days ago

If you’re on a small budget, look for older ThinkPad laptops, you can get them for good prices and in good condition and Linux works very well on them.

For mid-range try to find an older Dell XPS 13, they sold those as certified Linux devices nicknamed “Developer Edition” and with an Ubuntu LTS version preinstalled. I have one of those and I run Arch on it. It runs perfectly fine. Also: superb build quality! It’s a very great device.

Dirk, 15 days ago

Most common/relevant/larger distros do that at least for the install/live ISO.

Dirk, 21 days ago

Too bad they go the Ubuntu route now.

Dirk, 21 days ago

What Debian did with KeePassX is on a whole other level. They maliciously and intentionally harmed the reputation of upstream.

Dirk, 21 days ago

They derived from Ubuntu to provide a better experience - what they did.

But they now go down the Ubuntu way with dumbing down the interface and holding back and/or hiding software they disagree with.

Dirk, 21 days ago

Yes. And now Flatpaks the don’t like, too.

Dirk, 21 days ago

I’m happy with the distribution I use. But I now need something new to suggest to interested users.

Dirk, 25 days ago

They miss easy to use effects and filters.

Make a piece of text pop in with a nice animation and sound effect letter by letter.

Dirk, 25 days ago

FUCK AI

Dirk, 26 days ago

An web browser. 99 percent of my mobile activities are done in Firefox. I have Organic Maps for routing, a local mobile payment app and a local sharing electric sooter app.

This is pretty much all apps I use.

Dirk, 26 days ago

Mmmh. To me apps are the things installed on a smartphone. The things I install on a computer I call programs.

But the same applies there for me, too. I basically do everything in the browser.

Dirk, 1 month ago

Businesses that already use Windows with all of the heavily integrated business-related stuff from Microsoft (AD, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Outlook, etc.) won’t change that just because a feature that most likely can be disabled via GPO.

Dirk, 1 month ago

Let me interject for a moment …

Dirk, 1 month ago

One is reviews. One is the actual players.

Dirk, 1 month ago

We all know the three golden rules of nowadays gaming:

1. Do not pre-order
2. Do not play on launch day
3. Wait for the first patch before considering a game “stable”

Dirk, 1 month ago

… and it is not even an interesting franchise.

Dirk, 1 month ago

This is the kind of crap that makes me …

… not use Debian.

Dirk, 1 month ago

If you base your Docker images on a full distribution then that is entirely your fault. People usually use specialized distributions for that.

You could even bootstrap your needed tooling from Busybox.

Dirk, 1 month ago

When does systemd stop?

“systemd announces a repleacement module for the kernel”

Dirk, 1 month ago

It’s the same drama as with the home directory replacement they announced and that no-one ever used.

Dirk, 1 month ago

Based on the commit messages the last REAL update was 5 years ago.

Dirk, 1 month ago

On first sight yes, in reality: no.

Dirk, 1 month ago

It’s so fetchy!

Dirk, 1 month ago

People love using flatpaks instead (yes I know of all the shortcomings, but you can always choose another install method for that broken package).

Not on Ubuntu nor Fedora, but yes: If a “larger” package breaks on update and there is no fix available and I use that application on a pretty much daily basis, then I remove it and install the Flatpak variant.

Flatpaks are slower, do not work super well with Wayland (especially scaling, some applications have GIANT text, some have 5 pixels large text, but fortunately I was able to circumvent those issues for most applications I use via Flatpak), and you need to run another system for updates and updates are friggin slow.

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There is also this monstrosity ...It is not fault-proof and it throws an error if there no older drivers, but this prevents accumulation of outdated Nvidia driver packages (at one point I had nearly 30 different variants installed, resulting of a couple of gigabytes of unused drivers that are “updated” every time I ran flatpak update). bash flatpak-update () { LATEST_NVIDIA=$(flatpak list | grep “GL.nvidia” | cut -f2 | cut -d ‘.’ -f5) flatpak update flatpak remove --unused --delete-data flatpak list | grep org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia- | cut -f2 | grep -v “$LATEST_NVIDIA” | xargs -o flatpak uninstall flatpak repair flatpak update }

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On the other hand, the applications provided via Flatpak just work.

And messing with 32 bits multilib dependency hell for Steam or installing pretty much half of Kde just for Kdenlive simply isn’t something I want.

Dirk, 1 month ago

Should.

Dirk, 2 months ago

Disteowatch is an unreliable source since it’s basically just a giant tracker for its own sites.

Dirk, 2 months ago

It’s still spyware, but people do not care anymore.

Dirk, 2 months ago

Yes, exactly. Even worse that people do not care about Audacity being spyware since a good fork exists.

Dirk, 2 months ago

This is just a normal fist! I don’t see anything wrong with it!

<span style="color:#323232;">    _______
</span><span style="color:#323232;">---'   ____)____
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          ______)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          ______)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">          _______)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         _______)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">         _______)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">---.__________)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

Dirk, 2 months ago

Management blabla without any real outcome as always.

People, THIS is where your donations go to.

Dirk, 2 months ago

I wish they’d make this game good

It should have been optimized to run good on common PC configurations. It should have mods since day 1 via the Steam Workshop.

This would have solved 99% of all complaints.

Dirk, 2 months ago

tl;dr

<span style="color:#323232;">git add .
</span><span style="color:#323232;">git commit -a
</span><span style="color:#323232;">git push
</span>

Dirk, 2 months ago

Firefox has a massive data leak issue, this is unfortunate but nothing new and it’s quite easy to stop.

The thing is, the foundation goes in the completely wrong direction. Instead of developing the browser and create an actually good mobile version of it, they sink money in useless hypetrain bullshit.

For example: on Android Firefox you cannot even change the homepage.

Dirk, 2 months ago

It shows up if you close the browser?

If you close all tabs, if you open a new “empty” tab, if you restart the browser, etc. Having a settable homepage is a no-brainer and I never ever stumbled across a browser that cannot set it.

They are going to make a new tab organizer though.

So we can finally have normal tabs in Firefox, too?

Dirk, 2 months ago

I need 6 taps to open a folder in my bookmarks bar in new “tabs”. This is just ridiculous.

Dirk, 2 months ago

Exactly. On desktop this also works as expected. Since the Firefox doesn’t have proper quickdial (neither on desktop nor on mobile) such a functionality is absolutely necessary.

Dirk, 2 months ago

Haha, yeah. Screw them.

Dirk, 2 months ago

… and this part is before /usr/local/bin making it impossible to override Flatpak bins or desktop files.

Dirk, 2 months ago

That’s simple bash completion but with extra steps :)

Dirk, 2 months ago

Like everyone deep down is just a bigot (self-inferred I assume?), and some people just have the social skills to hide that better

Basically this. Yes. This is how socialization works. This is also how a society works.

I have no problem with Vaxry since I don’t know him personally. I don’t think we could be friends, based on what he says online. But to me this is absolutely irrelevant when it comes to using the software he maintains.

Dirk, 2 months ago

If you say so.

Dirk, 2 months ago

Enforce it against unrelated projects not being part of said organization?

Dirk, 2 months ago

This is true. But iuf they enforce a rule that I have to wear a frog hat with googly eyes at home they can kindly fuck off, though.

Dirk, 2 months ago

Oh, okay. Yeah. If it’s their project they can do whatever they want.

I just remembered the issue as they want to enforce their policies on the Hyprland community.