I’ve run them with everything from AntiX to Nobara to Arch to Gentoo to…
I do like the granular Android-like controls for flatpaks, using flatseal or something similar is almost idiot proof, so I’m not upset there are flatpaks… Only when there are just flatpaks.
No problem with Flathub, but FFS I wish so many projects would stop having all their releases and flatpaks or those damn snaps.
If you’re going to do just one format why not AppImage? It is portable, easy to use, multiple ways to sandbox it, and newer versions have the option to create their own home directory so the files created stay with the AppImage for use on portable drives or between users on a shared partition.
Archive link forthe “We block your VPN, now gimmie dat IP!” site?
RedHat has been so obnoxious I moved from Fedora to Debian.
I’ve seen a lot of tech bro “Shove our crap into everything and make sure it is too hard to not use it so we become the new Microslop” kinda crap coming out of them to want anything to do with it.
Oh, one of them is Substack which I am considering dropping because it updates ten times a week and gets worse every time…
The other is a bank app, which does not require Google Play Services, but only releases via PLay.
I already gave up on CashApp, they are so embedded in the derp… And it used to work, evenm on Lineage.
Meanwhile the two apps I still use not on F-Driod or able to pull with Obtanium are downloaded from Aurora.
Fuck. Google.
As an American I draw the line at US corporations.
Great stuff by great people here, but all small scale, and often local.
It’s pretty much the same policy as the Linux kernel, but still disappointing.
I’ve been dumping things left and right as they decide Claude is their buddy, and that won’t stop because the same idiots who dropped decent init systems for that RedHat tech bro’s mess decided not to block it.
Thankfully Librewolf still uses AppImage as an option.
The only Flatpak I bother with is the Kodi one because my distro has incompatible (read stable) library version on several things for compiling it and I’m considering just jumping to jellyfin for that, as well.
My version is KDE patched, the actual browser I use is Librewolf, but I keep the distro package of Googlyfox around for when I need to use a less securely configured browser that allows redirects and captive portals and doesn’t block bot checks that use cross site javascript and WebGL contenta and browswer fingerprinting and…
Sadly I see Gabe saying something that makes sense, and then Valve ignoring it to do whatever a corporate publisher demands, since it’s a private company and not forced to bow to shareholders I kinda hoped they could take a stand but it seems like the whole recommendation list lately has either been AI slop or a corporate “AAA” shovelware game that demands I run a secondary client on top of Steam to launch.
Steam has done a lot of good things, but I think they need to take a stand against the publishers. Kicking them off Steam would cost them money, but it would cost the publishers far more, and I think they could use their damn-near-monopoly status to make good changes in the insdutry by simply refusing to alow abuse of paying gamers.
It’s pretty sad that I have dozens of games that I can’t play anymore because of an “update” that broke it I was forced to install by Valve because the publisher said so. It’s why my 1500ish game library is all cracked and backed up in zip files to old mechanical hard drives (no need to pay the AI bubble premium on storage, not running the games off the HDD, I extract the archive to my SSD and play from it) now and any games I buy are form GOG with everything not sold there pirated instead.
I dumped Adobe when I tried to reinstall my Creative Suite on a new PC only to have it tell me it was “too old” and I needed to “upgrade” to Creative Cloud.
That “cloud” word had me nope right the fuck out, and it seems I dodged a bullet, as I was not involved with Adobe when they became screwed all their customers.
I have no issues with Lineage, or Graphene, the enshitification is all Google and the shady “app” shilelrs who are after your data linking everything to Google Play Services which is a fucking plague.
Android is fine, Google has gone form “Don’t be Evil” to “How can we be more evil?” and needs to be purged from all devices.
Heck, I just demanded a data deletion of an account that was a legal adult because they demanded a copy of my driver’s license to watch a music video on YouTube.
Funny that doesn’t happen when I send a bot to scrape the webm file, without the spammy annoying AI generated ads playing constantly, and run ffmpeg on it to give me a proper offline copy of said video.
Nothing Google does is needed, they are a “convenience” that is only popular because it si free and already installed on everything. Kinda like Windows, no?
Well, when I play something that I have to get on Steam I either crack it and run it with Goldberg, or I just grab a pirate copy to begin with. Despite being a “Game Industry Guardian” on my Steam profile I’ve moved to piracy if it’s not available DRM-Free.
I decided after several games were “updated” with DRM or KLAC or anti-tamper or to constantly spam Epic Games servers with EOS requests even in offline play that I require two things to pay for game:
Offline installers so I can back them up and not need to keep everything installed at all times, and no client requirment to install and play.
The ability to stay at the current version if there is an “update” that breaks things, withouth fighting the client constantly and going through hoops enabling release channels hoping it doesn;t reset at some point and change the gmae I have installed without my permission.
Most of my game, now, are from GOG. I’ve bought one DLC on Steam in the last year, but after them ignoring the “Hey, I’ll buy this again if you release on GOG” messages the next DLC (dropping next week) is coming from my favorite pirate site not Steam.
Added bonus, to that, the constant EOS and Google conections sent by the game even when I set it to “offline” mode are flippin’ insane, and they don’t happen when the Steam API is set to redirect to a local emulator.
I mean, I guess it’s good to have more thigns, but isn’t this kinda playing in to the “You will own nothing and be happy” BS?
Use a Javascript blocker, as well.
I have uBlock Origin and NoScript, together they disabled the ads and the demand to turn off your blocker.
This is a good thing, though. Anyone so antagonistic to readers needs to be avoided.
Briar is in a whole different league, definitely one to use, but at that point may as well add Meshtastic stuff to the list.
When my PC suspends it unmounts the sd card, which can cause data loss if I am working on something that is not saved to the internal SSD.
Bonus points for one that does not even have your personal information e.g. Session.
I’m not talking a bout it because I’m still stuck on fooyin ;)