Gecko

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[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Aren't AppImages still limited to Xorg?

Also there's no centralised update mechanism or dependency deduplication, no?

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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Without the traditional distribution workflow [...]

You are aware that the xz exploit made it into Debian Testing and Fedora 40 despite the traditional distribution workflows? Distro maintainers are not a silver bullet when it comes to security. They have to watch hundreds to thousands of packages so having them do security checks for each package is simply not feasible.

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish something like .config would be a thing for storing configuration files in repositories. Instead we have a .vscode, .github, .gitlab, .idea, .vs, etc

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not to be that person but I'm curious what made you go with AppImage over Flatpak, given that you already mentioned using the Flatpak as an alternative ^^"

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The easiest way to block an auto-upgrade to Win11 is to just disable TPM in the BIOS. That way Windows will see the PC as not Win11 compatible and not perform the upgrade.

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

The linked message is from 2019, i.e. per-M1 Apple laptops and at a time when arm in datacenter was just starting out.

Tbh, I feel like it's kinda pointless to discuss a comment made by someone over 4-years ago. Both the environment and the person itself can change a lot in that time.

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Convenience for end-users and avoiding link rot is probably one of the reasons.

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yup, 40% of that AMD share is the Steam Deck.

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This article is kinda misleading. Nearly 40% of Linux devices is the Steam Deck which is AMD only. Subtracting the Steam Deck AMD usage on Linux more or less matches that on Windows.

See the Steam hardware survey for the numbers that this blog spam article is reporting on: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/?platform=linux

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Opt-out helps you capture the group of users that simply do not care about telemetry.

As someone who recently started developing an open-source GUI application for a few thousand users I cannot stress enough how instrumental telemetry has been in fixing a variety of crashes.

[–] Gecko@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

While Vaultwarden is great I would not suggest selfhosting your password manager unless you do regular backups. Losing all your password cause your server went down is a great way to ruin your day.

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