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There are philosophical and technical reasons to not like snaps

Technical

  • Slow startup time

  • Makes lsblk look really ugly

  • For awhile users didn't have a lot of control over when things updated

  • Not designed to work with third party repos by default

  • Requires apparmor so it doesn't work well on selinux distros.

Philosophical

  • Backend is proprietary and controller by a single company
  • Has made the same amount of effort as flatpak to work on distros that aren't Ubuntu
  • Some people just don't like Ubuntu
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Since the license restricts who can use the software it isn't oss

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I fail to see how that differs from the current Internet

Tips Fedora 39

Brave has a crypto token and that turns Alot of people off of brave. They also heavily encourage people to use custodial exchanges which turns some crypto people. They have also have added their affiliate links on cert pages when users would visit and they had nasty bug in their sync which mixed up user data. Otherwise Brave removes Alot of the bad parts of chrome and brave search is pretty solid. The privacy alternative is Firefox or librewolf. If you need chromium for whatever reason brave or ungoogled chromium

If your Linux distro is using btrfs you can format it to btrfs and use btrfs send for backups. Otherwise the filesystem shouldn't be to big if a deal unless you want to restore files from a Windows machine. If that is the case use ntfs

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More like a rust rewrite of Wireshark that's easier to use

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Debian testing or nixos

Sometimes it's easier to start over than unbreak an existing project. Gnome is old and big so it's harder to change. So starting over where you don't have to keep existing features or care about existing users is way easier than fixing gnome and rewriting it in rust. Plus system 76 can. There's no single party that can stop them from making a desktop

Along with the views of it's users it's just fun to say things like enshitification and the great enshittening

There is still tons of protest music out there and I'll list some at the bottom. It might be the music you listen to and are exposed to might not be as angry at the man because as you become older you become the man, man. Also the shift to streaming has allowed 1000 flowers to bloom and it's hard to see them all especially if you haven't looked at genres like rap and metal that didn't get big till the 80s

No man is without fear - fit for an autopsy Constitutional - job for a cowboy Every song by arcania Wage slaves - all shall perish Genocide - suicide silence

My wife bought a Lenovo yoga and loves it

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Container tabs, it respects my privacy, and brave started randomly not painting pages

The empty window is actually an ancap that sells flags

Ynab it works on every platform I care about and easily pulls info from all my accounts

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The open source initiative defines what open source means and states it can't discriminate against any person group or field of endeavor which I read as if it restricts who uses it, it isn't open source

https://opensource.org/osd/

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Not saying I'm a fan but you I think you are looking for a CLA or contributor license agreement

Shameless plug for my project shiftmon that's hosted on gitlab it uses ansible to glue together Telegraf, Victoriametrics, Grafana, and Loki

https://gitlab.com/shiftsystems/shiftmon

I use fastmail so I can easily use a desktop client and create aliases with bitwarden and it's a great service the only downside is it's not as private as proton mail, but I don't consider email private or secure

Different distros build their packages with different options and have different versions of those packages so the Ubuntu and fedora php packages might have an optimization the arch one didn't

Have A zsh shell with fzf history and zsh syntax highlighting installed

I have been loving miniflux. It has been pretty set and forget. They have nice android apps and you can pay them to host it for you

Bitwarden keeps a local copy of the data that can exported if something ever happened to bitwarden. If you want to keep an encrypted backup you can export the CSV and store it on an encrypted drive as a backup but not big worry about syncing it to all devices

Matrix using element for the client and element call or jitsi should do the trick

I think it's judging not using the right tool for a job. Legal work is usually communication and looking through tons of documents over long hours. A gaming laptop has bad battery life and has a bunch of goofy drivers required to run them which can be a security risk.

Yesterday I couldn't download stuff from Ansible gateway because my lists blocked the object storage URL but there's a query log in both tools that makes troubleshooting easy and Adguard has a disable protection button that can disable filtering and can disable it for a set amount of time so you don't forget to turn it back on

If you are using nixos try home manager. Otherwise Ansible is nice for plopping templates and files into your own home directory

A common pattern is partner with someone with three required skills and you do all the admin work. The option is to learn those skills yourself. Be careful not to be an idea guy. Actually work and gain some skills to provide value

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Thunderclient for vscodium

It you have a functioning dual boot don't worry about it. Next install it's worth looking in into and pretty easy to setup. It has trim support for ssds and is way easier to resize on a live system than lvm with another filesystem

I have had better luck with Linux updates applying faster and they are more reliable than Windows. You can customize your desktop to have whatever theme you want. Also the privacy benefits are great too

Devs understand http and json way better than imap and http can support modern security protocols like oidc which standards imap doesn't support which can make using foss email in a corporate environment

There are already licenses like this. Namely the sspl and the bsl. Id argue they drive away more contribution than they protect devs. Especially sspl because it's not clear if I have to open my entire automation repo if I give a 3rd part contractor access to a web app. Also they are not open source since they restrict who can use it

The open source initiative defines what open source means and states it can't discriminate against any person group or field of endeavor which I read as if it restricts who uses it, it isn't open source

https://opensource.org/osd/

For personal or family use the built in Google family tools are good enough for most things but they become more useful the more devices you are responsible for. From a user prospective I'm not putting it on something unless work bought it for me because it's spyware

Find a hobby you like and find a group of people doing it together. I find those settings super easy to talk in since you know you have at least one thing in common and usually something to talk about. Like smaller concerts you can say I like the band on your shirt. I have met one of my best friends like that at a metal show.

Partially ibecause I hate ads. part of it is personal security along with ads AdguardHome server blocks malware and porn for the kids. There's a ton malware that gets delivered through ads

Podcasts, blogs, and YouTube. The Jupiter broadcasting and late night Linux podcasts are great For blogs Jeff geerling and serve the home are really good.

I use vikunja for this it can self hosted or cloud hosted