Gray market license keys for software. The money you’re paying for these will never make it to the developer, so you might as well pirate.

With enough plugins vim can have almost all of the features of an ide. Not that I recommend using it like that tho.

Or, get this, a PWA.

It’s not their official policy, but my personal philosophy with alpine goes like this:

1. If it doesn’t work with musl/busybox, find an alternative that does
2. If I can’t find an alternative, then I patch it myself
3. If I don’t have the time/skill to patch it myself, then I throw it into a container that has glibc/gnu coreutils

Context:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRIklga9IBQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDzAAjzbV5g

TLDR:

• It’s a Japanese used computer parts store. The name “Michaelsoft Binbows” is a pun on 貧乏 (binbou, poor) and the English name Michael.

Yeah, and it did become the next big thing. So much so that we’re still trying to figure out how to escape the overreaching grasp of big data algorithms that control social media networks.

There is a busybox/musl version of Void as well, but iirc it’s only for use in containers, not a bootable distro. But yeah alpine is also great, I love it as well.

This meme was brought to you by an arch user desperately trying to justify the mental gymnastics of using systemd in their supposedly “keep it simple” distro

EDIT: I joke of course. If arch/systemd works well for you, that’s all that matters!

School. I don’t miss any of it.

You see movies and TV shows romanticising middle/high school a lot, as though it’s all about parties, friends, hanging out, and getting into relationships. It’s not that. Just an endless barrage of busywork with the occasional holiday.

I still can’t fathom why electron needs to exist when PWA is a thing. Like, almost every app is just plain better running in a normal web browser instead of electron. Webapps never need to be updated manually, electron apps do (e.g. discord). Webapps are sandboxed inside the browser, electron has you running some rando developer’s code natively. With electron, you have to trust the developers of every app to keep the electron version up-to-date to avoid critical bugs (e.g. libwebp). With webapps, if your browser is patched, then every webapp is safe. Electron also suffers from random bugs and regressions that aren’t an issue in most web browsers.

Isn’t debloated windows just a regular windows install after running https://github.com/Sycnex/Windows10Debloater ? Is there more to it?

If you’re interested in another approach to containerizing GUI applications, also checkout out x11docker. It’s a small independent project maintained by one guy, nothing big like flatpak, but also pretty cool. The name is actually a bit limiting – it supports both docker and podman, and can run wayland apps as well. One of the coolest features, in my opinion, is the ability to run a separate X server inside every sandbox and forward individual windows to the “host” X server. That way you can prevent apps from spying on your keyboard or other apps’ windows.

The thing with appimages is that they expect the developer to have full knowledge of what libraries need to be bundled with their app, which makes it difficult to make truly universal appimages. In flatpak you just select one of a set list of runtimes and add any additional dependencies on top of it. Flatpak also re-uses the files for each runtime in between the different apps that use it, which saves a lot of disk space.

Why not containerise everything? You need libreoffice? No problem, here is a docker or podman container.

Flatpak is basically GUI-optimized containers. It uses the same technology (namespaces) as docker and podman, just with some extra tools to make GUI-related things work properly. That’s why flatpak apps don’t use the system’s gtk version – they’re running in a sandbox with a different rootfs. You can spawn a shell into the sandbox of a specific app with flatpak run --command=sh com.yourapp.YourApp and poke around it if you want to.

Oh, what the fuck!?

TBH I wouldn’t mind it that much. The whole point of flatpak is that the developer can do whatever demented satanic rituals they want inside of the sandbox, and it won’t contaminate the rest of the system.

Thanks. Lemmy.world should get a bot going for this or something.

A lot of “hardware raid” is just a separate controller doing software raid. I thought I lost access to a bunch of data when my raid controller died, before I realized that I could just plug the disks directly into the computer and mount them with mdadm. But yes, hardware raid seems a bit pointless nowadays.

Ususally just turning off javascript using ublock makes these notices go away. And if turning off javascript breaks the website… well then I guess whatever I was trying to read wasn’t really worth my time anyway.

Yeah, it took me a while to realize it. Hence the deleted comment.

Goodness, your trolling is god-tier! It’s so funny seeing how many people in this thread, including op, are taking your comment at face value. It’s satire of the highest level: easy to miss as a bystander, yet devastating to the target.