but why

seriously. now you basically don’t have access to a large number of packages. sure, waterfox is a good alternative to firefox. but say you do want to install firefox (or any other package that canonical distributes only as a snap), what do you do?

I get that it’s possible to run Kubuntu, or even stock Ubuntu, without snap. that’s the beauty of an open OS, you can do whatever you want with it. I just don’t get why you would want to run a distro that is actively pushing a standard on you that you don’t want

I think that’s what they were saying: it still uses Ubuntu repositories, which use snap. So to install, e.g. Firefox natively, you need to manually meddle with PPAs, or compile from source. The package manger, arguably the biggest strength of any Linux distro, becomes next to useless unless you want to run snaps

uhm, akshually it’s sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

This really didn’t need the big nose. Using antisemitic tropes in critique of Israel plays right into the hands of their propaganda. Those genociders want to be the victims, so any critique can be stamped as antisemitism. Don’t play their game.

sorry to break this to you, but zoomers are all adults now

“The essence of my happiness is fighting for the happiness of others. It’s strange, why is it that in grammar, the word “happiness” can only be singular? That is counter to its meaning, after all. … If it turns necessary to die for the common happiness, then I’m braced to.”

What a badass.

Problem is they’re buying them first

LGBTC

Ah I see

I think most of us here don’t use Reddit, so that option went right over my head

That gives you a ton of dead posts with zero comments and upvotes, some instances do it, but that just leads to dead communities

God, this is cursed

No, no, let’s instead reduce friction by making it entirely out of steel, and lay down an even, steel surface for it to roll on, maybe in the shape of tracks

The borrow checker makes things a bit more complicated to get running, definitely takes some getting used to when you come from a non-memory safe language. But the compiler is really helpful throughout almost all mistakes, often directly providing an explanation and a suggested fix. One of my favorites programming experiences so far

That’s a step in the right direction, but ultimately, the best solution would be an imperative mandate. I have no idea how we’ve let ourselves get gaslit that free mandates (once someone is elected they can do what they want, regardless of voter intention) is somehow more democratic than imperative mandates.

Dwarf planets sometimes have moons (e.g. Pluto)

I’d think a wheelbarrow or hand-drawn cart would still be useful, but I see your point

Chiquita can rot in hell

I think the problem lies with the definition of consent more than with the definition of suffering. If the alternative is something worse, then that’s not consent. That’s coercion.

Now, whether it’s still appropriate to still call it suffering when applied to someone enthusiastically consenting, I’m not sure.

See also: the Linux Kernel

Fair enough. I just thought it had become pretty ubiquitous in the desktop ecosystem, just because HDMI licencing fees are egregious