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2026-08-12 17:19:49 GMT

> anime titled "young ladies don't play fighting games"
> look inside
> it's about young ladies who do play fighting games
why do you do this to me. you promised the exact opposite of this

2026-05-14 17:44:27 GMT

imagine a porn-free internet, a beautiful place where you could look up fanart of your favorite characters without having to bleach off your eyes afterwards

2026-05-04 15:29:30 GMT

girl enters arihi's house for a fun asm & chill session. she even brought her laptop with a fancy monospace coding font. hours pass by. when she leaves - only terminus is installed! no more iosevka. no more noto sans mono. no more fira code or cascadia. no fancy coding font. only terminus. and there's many cases like that!

2026-04-23 17:48:20 GMT

it's crazy that the "send me 25 dollars and i'll send you 2000 back" scam still works and that i sometimes have to explain to people that they shouldn't send money to a stranger of the internet who calls themselves "thomas james" and it's also crazy how many times my explanation fails and they do it anyway

2026-04-15 18:17:45 GMT

is github broken again? they're not really good at keeping up those 9s

2026-04-12 16:45:51 GMT

i've tried ssh, it's super slow
i've tried http, it's super slow
now i'm trying ssh again but i'm tickling the server every 5 seconds with ping and hoping that it will make the controller not go to sleep (if that's why it's slow anyway)

2026-03-27 18:24:28 GMT

i'm curious, fedi. when you're compiling software from outside your distribution's repos (so from codeberg, github, someone's personal site) do you always read the full source code for the program you're building?

2026-03-09 12:41:46 GMT

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doesn't that stand for eight megabytes and constantly swapping?

2026-02-23 09:45:51 GMT

can we please ban java and make everything procedural

2026-01-15 21:48:07 GMT

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it does not, and it's also unrelated to my post.

2026-01-15 21:39:50 GMT

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no one's getting raped on a public train, even on the evenings there's people around, and no one's starting a fight either. if anything, there's emergency signals basically everywhere.

2026-01-15 09:57:44 GMT

a few times i've seen a young woman in public transport be approached by someone who is pushy and probably under influence and starts flirting with her despite her being uncomfortable and not being interested at all and right away a guy nearby approaches them to kick the weirdo out... but so far in all instances the guy's girlfriend stops him from helping, because "don't get involved with that" and "you're embarrassing me in public" and "let's just leave them alone"
like... i thought that there'd be at least a bit of solidarity between women in such situations and that one should be proud of their boyfriend who steps in to help someone who needs it but apparently not

2026-01-01 23:57:57 GMT

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well i actually changed the hostname for the sake of my ssh prompt or else i won't know where i'm running commands

2026-01-01 23:51:08 GMT

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the network was functional and i don't use mdns and refer to the device by its ip address anyway

2026-01-01 21:30:44 GMT

is it somehow an issue to have two devices on my network have the same hostname? it seems to work but i only had it that way for like two minutes so i'm not sure if it actually breaks something meaningful

2025-11-26 00:13:49 GMT

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while that's technically true, in most cases it poses no benefit for the attacker so i imagine there's a much bigger market for attackers who want to get into your bank account compared to attackers that want to spoil your milk and eggs

2025-11-19 19:20:34 GMT

yo you should talk to me on whatscrapp, i've heard it's like super secure, it's even got encryption too so it must be great! source code? what's that?

2025-11-11 20:53:13 GMT

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i change it up occasionally but always keep the same character, sometimes i find some art that's way too good. i might not recognize myself for a few posts though, almost replied to my own post once.

2025-11-11 20:31:35 GMT

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the hair color is a bit different so i thought you were a different person for a few posts

2025-09-04 02:14:30 GMT

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yeah true, but i'd assume that they'd pack up for the night and return in the morning as pretty much every other construction team does

2025-09-04 01:54:59 GMT

the construction site is *still* going after 13 or so hours, do these guys never take a break?

2025-09-03 20:13:13 GMT

totally mental :ado_load:
https://media.blackstar.cafe/media/598f8d1f9cca753f0e6e46e7df5bdc34c89887268c04a408f77e1eef2d10a7e9.png

2025-09-02 03:39:22 GMT

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the fediverse glows bright tonight, be careful :blobcatglowie:

2025-08-23 02:02:29 GMT

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it's true that many people use phones nowadays, but it defeats the purpose of the privacy software if i have to subject myself to tracking to use it. post quantum end to end encryption is useless if the messages are sucked up by the keyboard and used for personalized ads before the user sends them.
i'm not asking for the devs to stop developing for phones, but it would be nice to see actual good clients for their software on the desktop; one would think that if privacy is really your goal then you'd put at least some effort into it, and not put on a pseudo-privacy front a la nordvpn or protonmail.
if your desktop client is a mess then it drives away the people who would like to use your program for real privacy.

2025-08-23 01:47:36 GMT

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because it's the modern times, no one knows real programming languages anymore and javascript is all the rage, the developers who write it don't care about the performance on user's side because it presumably runs okay for them.
signal-desktop is 427.12 megabytes on arch (not counting dependencies), which is almost double the size of firefox and around thrice the size of the default kernel.

2025-08-23 00:04:37 GMT

what's even the deal with all these so-called "privacy" chat software being mobile-first? mobile devices are notoriously privacy disrespecting and using one as a main way to use your software seems silly.
signal, session, deltachat all have mobile clients where the effort goes and for computers there's a half-broken ugly electron client that's apparently only an afterthought.

2025-08-22 23:57:58 GMT

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okay scrap that, there seems to be no sane delta chat clients

2025-08-22 23:54:46 GMT

delta chat seems cool, too bad that i'm more likely to find a 900 kg chunk of pure gold than a delta chat user

2025-08-20 13:05:27 GMT

it once again happened that the screen of the device was showing something completely different than what was actually on there.
displayed was a normal chat window, but overlayed on top was an invisible gallery picker. clicking anywhere would have sent an image from my gallery. pressing back dismissed this picker, but nothing changed on the screen since the window wasn't visible in the first place.
stuff like this makes me not trust graphical software. it's the reason that when i click something and i'm unsure whether an action was taken i'll back out of the program completely and redo what i was doing because i don't know if no action happened or whether something happened but it's just not made visible and what i'm seeing on the screen isn't the actual thing that will be pressed when i do something.
does anyone know what's actually going on or did someone experience something similar? it's not device lag, or a device specific issue. i've seen it happen a lot on android.

2025-08-17 01:49:14 GMT

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i don't interact with them, since it just feels pointless to point out that it's sus if they already warped the narrative. it just makes me wonder if people really believe bizarre stuff or boosted the post halfway through and didn't read the rest.

2025-08-17 01:34:57 GMT

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i wouldn't even say it's people making disagreeable posts, but agreeable opinions that have specifically weird (and sometimes discriminatory) reasoning behind them. that makes me think that something's up, since it's easier to express an opinion without blaming a specific group of people if the opinion is universally agreed upon anyway as a general consensus.
it's usually a stray mastosoc user that finds their way onto the timeline.

2025-08-16 20:05:19 GMT

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i'm convinced that at least half of the arguments that get popular on here are done in bad faith (or by someone who geniunely believes them which is arguably even worse)

2025-08-16 20:02:22 GMT

false dichotomy :ado_yabai:

2025-08-05 21:44:34 GMT

discord's maximum password length limit is 72, booooooo :akko_angrywhat:

2025-08-03 22:12:27 GMT

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sure, but removing darkness from a survival game isn't one of them, the game mechanic exists for a reason (to encourage you to find lights or night vision)
https://media.blackstar.cafe/media/1754861e356786472fcabb627cb94e83efcc617b9b6ba2a865854e1d997c206e.png
https://media.blackstar.cafe/media/b489f3dcf8928b81e92bea111723bd83806c919e128d87fd25320d8207724d79.jpeg

2025-08-03 20:56:06 GMT

people are turning their gamma up with some nvidia tool in games and then justifying that "it's not cheating, if you don't do it you're at a disadvantage"
isn't that the very textbook example of cheating? you should let me use an engine in chess because others do it and then i'll be disadvantaged, you should let me use an aimbot in shooter games because if i don't then i'm at a disadvantage, you should just let me use external tools to bypass game mechanics because if i don't then i might have lower odds at winning

2025-08-01 11:30:28 GMT

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that would work and would make them in order, but it would also make the timestamps inaccurate for the files that were downloaded hours earlier in the same command (which was cool to have but isn't that important)

2025-08-01 10:23:00 GMT

i want to somehow make a curl wrapper that downloads in parallel but the last bit of the file is only written after the previous file is saved so that saving is sequential

2025-07-29 21:30:39 GMT

#blackrockshooter #animeart :brs:
src: https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/131126245
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2025-06-01 19:42:26 GMT

yeah, i use btrfs (bocchi the rock filesystem)

2025-04-22 22:05:14 GMT

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thank you billionaires i appreciate your commitment to making the internet worse

2025-04-22 21:00:14 GMT

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the official arch wiki now has the stupid anubis thing and you need to enable javascript and cookies and wait for the proof of work script to finish (unless you do not have the word "mozilla" in your user agent, so lynx/w3m are unaffected)

2025-04-22 20:52:30 GMT

thankfully the german and japanese arch wiki are still uncrippled, more of a reason to not forget the languages

2025-03-24 21:38:25 GMT

navigation to anywhere (when clicking on a link, page forward, page back, reload, etc.) should be disallowed when any text or image is selected
the browser should just ignore everything that results in the current page being unloaded and do nothing unless the selection is cleared

2025-03-24 21:27:47 GMT

#blackrockshooter #animeart :brs:
src: https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/128492844
https://media.blackstar.cafe/media/a9a78a470c05c53a089455a38779824c10a72b4e4ca83c32348df694ea797c8b.jpg

2025-03-24 21:25:16 GMT

i fully believe that the current landscape of technology and the "way things are done" in mainstream tech helps massively with the proliferation of scams and if the scum in big tech didn't insist on lining their pockets in any way possible then millions of grandmas (and anyone else) could be saved from falling for fraud

2025-03-21 01:00:34 GMT

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no, the point of the rust coreutils is to be a replacement of gnu coreutils with the exact same functionality (and to fully replace {core,diff,find}utils according to them) but even then it's early and not every option and functionality is implemented and it's pretty tough to get every single detail to be 1:1 compatible. their repo states that "all programs have been implemented, some options might be missing or different behavior might be experienced".
that's why i could bet that this change in ubuntu can only result in more breakage with no upsides.

2025-03-20 22:53:13 GMT

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i mean yeah, but there could also be unknown vulnerabilites in the rust implementation, it's a fact of how software works. maybe even a bigger chance than there being some in the c implementation that's been around for ages and that the majority of software uses under the hood.
what i could expect out of the situation is some scripts breaking since they expect the usual gnu implementation but instead get the rust one, something similar you can see when running scripts on embedded/mobile devices with non-gnu implementations.
even if they do eventually achieve complete feature parity i don't see much benefit for that effort since the implementation can either be equal or worse. but they're doing it anyway because we need to make it into rust, for some reason.

2025-03-20 22:13:34 GMT

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gccrust is still in a very early stage and not suitable for real compiling, according to their repo.
i'm not against rust as a language but i see absolutely no upside here, there will be no performance benefits and it's not like there's any security issues with coreutils being made in c. the change is made purely because it's rust.

2025-03-20 21:18:42 GMT

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ubuntu-25.10-rust-coreutils
can't wait for the day when there's differences and breakage between normal coreutils and coreutils on ubuntu for absolutely no benefits but at least they're now blazing fast* 🚀🚀🚀 and memory safe 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
*blazing fast does not imply performance benefits

2025-03-16 20:59:23 GMT

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absolutely not, if you're right and the other person is wrong it totally makes sense to just let them know that your opinion is the correct one so they can change themselves

2025-03-16 18:02:32 GMT

did you know that 90% of fedi users quit arguing right before the other person changes their opinion?
don't be that 90%, keep going, you've got this, just one more reply!

2025-02-28 21:21:52 GMT

you hate bill gates because he puts microchips into vaccines, i hate bill gates because he set my pet hamster on fire, we are not the same ^w^

2025-02-23 23:35:36 GMT

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if you bundle libraries it's hard to update a single library as you now need to update every package that used it.

2025-02-23 23:30:22 GMT

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you avoid overhead by not reading runtimes and using the system libraries.
flatpak is the issue there since it does not update the dependencies in a timely manner. the way that flatpak works inherently makes bug/security fixes more difficult.

2025-02-23 23:12:06 GMT

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you have to read the runtimes from disk instead of loading the system libraries.
how do you know everything in the container is always using the patched versions of libraries? historically that was not always the case and software used vulnerable libraries.

2025-02-23 22:50:53 GMT

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the launch time overhead and vulnerable runtimes would indeed exist there.

2025-02-23 22:50:46 GMT

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does dpkg run what's inside as root? if so, that's bad.

2025-02-23 22:50:39 GMT

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it's corpo software, they don't care about the drawbacks of containerization.
we're at the age where desktop software is written in javascript, don't expect sanity in developer who write such programs. it's the harmful "just get more resources" attitude.

2025-02-23 22:44:10 GMT

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here.
https://media.blackstar.cafe/media/c683c57b3139eab9fb1f2d635226a419942d8df77bae0fa40b7aa50ecd67f5a0.png

2025-02-23 22:40:38 GMT

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that introduces all the drawbacks of flatpak. or you can choose any other modern distro that's not debian.

2025-02-23 22:38:58 GMT

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https://slack.com/downloads/linux - deb, rpm.

2025-02-23 22:33:55 GMT

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storage is cheap for you. not for me and many people out there.
just as you don't make a square plane and add twenty engines to compensate since they're cheap, you should not do so with software.

2025-02-23 22:31:38 GMT

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it's pointless to go towards debian if you want modern software. you're walking into a problem knowing you will try to hack around it. why would you willingly do that?
regular users will care that now they have to manage their packages with two diffrent package managers for no reasonable benefit.

2025-02-23 22:27:57 GMT

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you also don't speak for everyone with this - many people read sources and know their way around software. beginners shoudln't be concerned with it but neither should they be with flatpak.
either way, malware will find a way and won't like being sandboxed. the developer won't allow that and will build the flatpak in a way it gets the permission from people.

2025-02-23 22:20:47 GMT

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why would you prefer such complexity? if you want stabilty, be prepared to cut on frequent updates. regular users do not want to install stuff twice, once for stability and second times for updates.

2025-02-23 22:15:13 GMT

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i see no benefit. i tried it and experienced no benefit, only drawbacks. i'm not going to think "hmm maybe it's actually great" if everything about my experience pointed to it not being great.
this holds true especially when talking about linux with beginners.

2025-02-23 22:11:52 GMT

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- if you run a distro known for packaging ancient versions of software and want recent versions, that's on you
- you won't muck up your os with using your native package manager in its intended way

2025-02-23 22:08:29 GMT

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no idea. many people do different stuff for different reasons.

2025-02-23 21:57:23 GMT

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it's a different version of debian with different libraries. it's the same reason why partial updates are unsupported on arch. with dynamic linking you need the program built against a certain library version.
many people run kdenlive or gimp as flatpaks, and i don't know a distro that wouldn't package those.

2025-02-23 21:43:09 GMT

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old proprietary ones will. go bundle dependencies with those. any modern packaged software that people regularly use won't. we've been over that too. you do not need a container for gimp/kdenlive/libreoffice/kcalc/firefox/vlc/whatever else people use flatpak for, it won't crash.

2025-02-23 21:35:16 GMT

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...or you can just use the system libraries. on your computer. from your package manager. they're there to be used. why use any space on a replacement?
storage cost isn't negligible, my laptop's ssd has 230 gigabytes (and 1tb of hdd but that's not always mounted and you don't install stuff there) and it's not an old laptop. get more of those runtimes and it's gigabytes of wasted space whose parts have to be read from disk when you want to use the software. "let's waste resources, they're cheap anyway" is how you end up with software that sucks.
all of my installed packages in total have 947 megabytes when unpacked. using 650 on runtimes because you don't want to touch the system libs is insane (and that's only the default one, some software requires more).

2025-02-23 20:41:07 GMT

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do you really not see a difference between installing a software with a normal package manager (download what is needed and share dependencies) and installing it in a container (and download everything)?

2025-02-23 20:31:19 GMT

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a package manager is responsible for installing your native system libraries, not ship its own. apt does not have its own foreign runtimes and neither does dnf or pacman.

2025-02-23 19:42:35 GMT

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flatpak isn't a regular package manager. there's containerization, runtimes instead of system libraries, its own way how it does things. i'm sure i have gone over reasons of why i strongly prefer one over the other multiple times in this thread. they're not equivalent.

2025-02-23 19:36:03 GMT

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i'm sure you have, but technology advances and as an example getting gui now requires one command, unless you are using a distro like fedora or mint where it involves zero commands. it's easier than ever which is one less excuse why not to do it.
you do not have to compile. i'm not saying that you must now abandon all your package managers and install linux from scratch. i'm saying that for regular users flatpak is inferior at best, harmful at worst.

2025-02-23 14:08:49 GMT

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when you move from a mac to windows, you are expect to learn how windows works. when you do the opposite you are supposed to learn how mac works. if i move from linux to mac, i will have to learn their system. why is it then that when windows users want to switch to linux we feel the need to pander to them and throw away the benefits of linux? the package management we have is miles ahead of windows.
you don't go up to a painter and tell them you want to finish their picture. you don't go to restaurants telling chefs to let you cook instead, since it's your first time but you think you will do better than them. windows users should not really have a say in how they want our systems to work.
unironically, if you stop forcing your windows workflow on linux then your life will be easier. you can't expect to switch systems and keep your old workflow.
another part is that we want to preserve what we have left. windows sucks, i do not want to follow in their footsteps.
look for example at firefox - they bent over and now has drm and all the sloppy ai garbage. it's quite a shitty browser now. do we want to allow bad stuff from windows to seep into linux?

2025-02-23 03:40:45 GMT

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i mean if saying that x11 is okay to use and containerization adds extra complexity to your package management makes me an elitist then i'll gladly be one
i did use whatever package managers were available years ago on my first distro which included containers and after giving up on them, stuff just works better? i can't say they made my life as a beginner easier.

2025-02-23 03:23:58 GMT

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many such cases on the fediverse :akko_shrug:

2025-02-23 02:58:03 GMT

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that's true - deep discussion requires sufficient time.

2025-02-23 02:26:11 GMT

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you can't compare houses or fixing cars to tech - there isn't a handful of scummy companies having a chokehold on every repairman or builder.
you also should not write dumbed down software. user-friendly does not mean dumbed down. developers should be open and encourage learning and users should be willing to learn.

2025-02-23 01:33:52 GMT

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big tech benefits if you're dependent on them and their products. they develop dumbed down walled gardens for a reason. unwillingness to learn that they induce directly benefits these scummy companies and hurts users - individuals and userbase as a whole.

2025-02-23 01:10:08 GMT

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tech literacy is low because software nowadays is dumbed down by big tech, there is no interoperability and no learning, just a black-box "app" (ew how i hate that word) that you're supposed to use and never think about what it does in the background.
many people today do not know that there is another browser and not just chrome, and that other office suites than microsoft office are a thing, or that you can simply just not use google and use a different search engine.

2025-02-23 00:36:03 GMT

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when we bring more windows-like junk into linux, we can't call ourselves sane at all. growth is good but linux must keep being linux.
tech companies are fighting hard to keep tech literacy low. if you can't compile a package when you're given the whole build instructions (which includes two or three commands in one line you paste into a shell) then you're doing bad, and they're winning.

2025-02-23 00:21:23 GMT

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they shouldn't be surprised it breaks then, dynamically linked binaries work well in repos but not well outside.
i don't expect you to ssh into a family computer to build a package for someone else (i would), but if my readme says "run ./configure && make to build" then the instructions are crystal clear. again, this is linux. if you're not willing to do a simple one-liner then maybe computers aren't for you.

2025-02-22 23:54:31 GMT

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librewolf offers its own debian packages. there's also a fedora repo, gentoo portage file and a binary/source aur package. no distro packages librewolf natively.

2025-02-22 23:39:37 GMT

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that's why you publish source and others can rebuild it with modern libs.
as i said multiple times, ancient binaries makes sense to containerize as they are difficult to run otherwise. not so much for non-game software though, since you'll catch vulnerabilities.

2025-02-22 23:28:34 GMT

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does anyone build a dynamically linked binary and offer it for distribution? if so, they don't know the basics of what they're doing.
yes, i use only distro-packaged software on that computer since it's all that other family members that use the computer need.
if i need some outside software, i'll ssh in and try to compile.

2025-02-22 23:24:58 GMT

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flatpaks won't save the linux desktop, not one bit. microsoft is a megacorp who pours money into keeping windows the main system, regulatory action is needed but that won't happen because the authorities are toothless.
you could have every piece of software binary backwards-compatible forever and linux still wouldn't get over windows. it's a whole different problem.

2025-02-22 23:21:09 GMT

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that's what package repositories are for.

2025-02-22 23:13:15 GMT

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i had a cd with non-drm freeware games when i was small and they worked on windows xp, then when 7 came around i was sad to find out that i can't play a lot of them anymore. they'd crash immediately or never get past the menu and if they did, the gameplay was messed up.
some of my other games relied on functionality that was removed from windows (i can't save the game in flatout anymore since the thing that provided offline account functionality no longer exists in modern windows)
so my experiences are very different, i guess it depends on the software.

2025-02-22 23:09:04 GMT

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security is good, but "let's use a new protocol that is very incompatible with existing software and offers little security improvements" i don't find so good.
for regular users, switching to wayland only creates obstacles with no substantial security benefit.

2025-02-22 23:04:05 GMT

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then go install maintained proprietary software, i am not stopping you. it will very likely work out of the box.
photoshop does not work on linux by design of the developers, there's nothing i can do.
my family laptop runs linux due to its low available resources and family members who used microsoft office in the past now use libreoffice, without issues. it's only one case i have but it did not take long at all for them to get used to it.

2025-02-22 22:59:34 GMT

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then should we just do what windows does? we might be heading that way and it doesn't look nice.

2025-02-22 22:56:30 GMT

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no idea, i never tried. i believe i mentioned in the thread somewhere that bundling all dependencies makes sense in ancient proprietary software. it does not in modern free software though.
when people run a text editor, office suite or a web browser, are they running a 25 year old binary that was never rebuilt for a modern system? are there any compatibility issues with running the latest firefox or libreoffice?
by the way, running games that old might be a challenge on windows as well.

2025-02-22 22:28:06 GMT

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that's what you do in windows, yes.
in my other reply i mentioned - this is not windows. you do not do that here. linux is not meant to be a replica of windows. if you accept that, your computing experience will be substantially easier. if you try to force your workflow from windows onto linux, you are making problems for your own self.

2025-02-22 22:24:10 GMT

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sorry but this really isn't a windows clone. if you used windows and moved to a mac then you'd use it the mac way, so you should linux the linux way.
trying to have linux mimic windows ends up in endless jank, broken software, and stupid crutches (like having three incompatible package managers on one system since snap and flatpak are a thing)

2025-02-22 22:13:44 GMT

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if there's no binary in the repos, i go for the source. if there's no compilable source then goodbye, i can't use your software.
windows-style installers are indeed very bad (and even worse when combined with root) but i've never seen that one and if i do see it, i start to doubt whether i should run your software in the first place.

2025-02-22 22:11:25 GMT

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yes, if you want to avoid issues you will need to not use ancient software on a modern systems. linux is not windows, just like how you adapted to windows you should adapt to linux. you'll have a way better experience if you accept that this is linux and do stuff the linux way.

2025-02-22 20:34:20 GMT

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> knew it was malware when it demanded permissions it doesn't need
like many proprietary and legacy programs do?
if flatpak allowed me to grant permissions without actually doing so it would turn me from a flatpak hater to a flatpak enjoyer, that's genuinely good functionality, but it doesn't seem like that will ever happen. that would the the breaking point between bloat for no reason and useful package manager, the biggest issue with denying permission is that the software knows you denied it.
the custom android rom that i used featured "privacy guard" which did exactly this on top of the usual permission system and it's super useful.