Laurel Raven

The problem is, Ubuntu from my understanding will try to install the snap version even if you explicitly are installing the deb version, including replacing a deb version with a snap when you update.

I’ve not experienced this personally as I stopped using Ubuntu before they started doing snaps, maybe they’ve gotten better about that, but I don’t trust a corpo run distro to not enshittify at every opportunity, so…

Mint is basically Ubuntu with a lot of the questionable decisions fixed (and uses Cinnamon instead of Gnome, so it’s a bit more Windows like).

It doesn’t have snaps (though they provide instructions to add them if you want), it uses apt for packages and I believe pulls from a mixture of the Ubuntu repos and their own. It also has Flatpak out of the box and the software center does both, and clearly marks which you’re going to install with an easy drop down to switch if both are available.

Flatpak has been pretty solid for me overall, though there are occasional gotchas.

Honestly, I’d recommend going with Mint, pretty much anything that works with Ubuntu will work with it, and it’s better put together in my opinion (and doesn’t try to sell you a pro subscription by implying your system will be insecure if you don’t, which Ubuntu does). I know you’re not looking to switch, but I’ve honestly been very unimpressed with Ubuntu for the last, oh, decade or so

Was going to say this exactly

The fact that it’s in retaliation for her speaking out about human rights violations, when they have a clear policy against retaliating against employees who speak out about human rights violations

What are you talking about? Law absolutely can specify that something is allowed.

ACLs are literally what makes up NTFS permissions, too, they just aren’t as clear about it

The only real permissions systems I’m familiar with are the basic octal permissions in *NIX and NTFS permissions. I know those aren’t really quite the same but they’re the closest I have actual experience with to be able to have an opinion about.

At one point I also knew a little iptables but that was over fifteen years ago now.

As said, I really should spend some time with them, I just need the motivation.

For me it’s not so much hate as just not really having experience with it, so most of the time if it causes an issue I either just find a command that sets the policy correctly, or more likely disable it.

I should spend some time figuring it out, but it’s just one more seemingly esoteric and arcane system that feels at first like it merely exists to get in my way, like systemd, and I’m left wondering do I really need this headache, and what is it really giving me anyway?

As good as it runs on Windows, anyway… It is still Star Citizen ;P

(No shade, really promising and most of it is pretty slick and impressive when it’s working and I hope they get it stable sometime soon-ish)

Not just any AI, really shitty and obvious AI

Okay, turned it off. If a site needs my location it can ask me and I can politely tell it to fuck off unless it has a warrant.

And he actually likes Tesla

And he wonders why NASA turned him down for bringing those astronauts back…

I’m sure he already calls his lawyers every day at 3 AM while half blitzed on K to pitch exactly that

On top of that, even the server setup they talked about wouldn’t actually cost that much energy to run, because that’s not all that will be running on it. That physical host will likely have dozens or even hundreds of servers running on it, and the small menu serving webserver will account for hardly any of the power draw from the hosts.

Oh, and I almost forgot: the company is going to have a website anyway, what company today serving the public doesn’t? Adding a page or two isn’t going to raise the power consumption in any measurable way if at all.

Resounding endorsements!

Was going to say, it’s West if you go far enough

This is my thought… Don’t hide it, really, more like toss a blanket over that part while people get settled. Most will stick with the defaults (whether a single default like lemmy.world or regional defaults like lemmy.ca), but they’ll get the option if that’s something they want to change later (I do wish there was a way to move instances rather than having to make a new account, that might also help improve adoption… “Just go with this one while you settle in and move when you know where you want to go”)

Sounds like they were right

Zen browser is pretty interesting too