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Old Androids Never Die, They Just Have A Few Screws Loose

yeh but where do those libs come from?

December 7, 2021


"Snaps and flatpak will set you free from dependency hell and get you faster updates!"

Yeah, because every snap dev is building every single one of their own libraries, and not just repackaging the files in the fucking deb they have as a build dependency, right? ¯\_(?)_/¯


Sigh

November 30, 2021


gamers, talking to Ubuntu devs: we want better performance and access to bleeding-edge drivers

Ubuntu devs: snaps?

gamers: no, performance and drivers

Ubuntu devs: snaps!

gamers: bye


What does the fox say? Oooof. Mozilla Is Testing Microsoft’s Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine

September 21, 2021


And to think part of the reason I've been a Firefox user for so long was because it and Ubuntu gave me a way to escape Microsoft.

So so so disappointed.

Mozilla is currently experimenting with Microsoft's Bing as the default search engine for Firefox, according to a report by Ghacks. A new SUMO search

Source: Mozilla Is Testing Microsoft's Bing As The Default Firefox Search Engine


AMA but that

September 20, 2021


Kinda funny how 505 had an AMA about Bloodstained, but nobody was allowed to ask about what the supposed "technical reasons" the native Linux version were dropped for.

(Yes, I know it's because 505 lied and there weren't any)


Firefucked

September 17, 2021


Oh Firefox. Oh, my sweet summer child, this will probably kill you.

My anger is palpable and my disappointment immeasurable.

Snaps suck. They are slow to load, hard to manage, have exactly zero GUI apps for handling them, and to top it off, the second keystroke in every snap I've ever tried to use gets delayed 10-15 seconds. They're useless and nobody needed yet-another-package-type.

On the bright side, Chrome installs a .deb and doesn't require any snaps at all, so I have somewhere to switch to that doesn't suck.

Ubuntu 21.10 is making the Firefox Snap app its default browser. A feature-freeze exception requests the Firefox Snap be seeded in the Ubuntu ISO image.

Source: Ubuntu to Make Firefox Snap Default in 21.10 - OMG! Ubuntu!