Let’s not defederate from every corporate player. Some of them can probably respect reasonable rules of civility.
But fuck Meta. We already know how this plays out.
We know there’s a huge wave of hatred and misinformation incoming. We’ve seen it on their other platforms.
Yeah. I’ll switch to an instance that is defederated from Threads, if mine doesn’t.
I left Meta’s other properties to avoid state sponsored hate speech. I won’t use a platform that gives hate speech a platform.
I don’t need to wait to know if Meta will do that. I already know.
Agreed. PornHub is probably a pretty solid representation of all web traffic. --Todo: insert obvious joke here–.
I missed the “PornHub” in the corner at first. Maybe I won’t share this with colleagues…
Awesome. Thanks!
It’s the year of the Linux desktop! /s
But seriously, I think I’m going to buy a SteamDeck.
I named most of them Marlin Jr, and Coral Jr, but I guess we can name one of them Nemo.
Would it be enough to be able to run .deb packages on fedora?
Unpacking a .deb on Fedora, or unpacking an .rpm on Ubuntu isn’t a big deal. The files inside are often actually identical.
But would not be useful because the files inside usually rely on shared libraries, which may or may not already be installed. Those shared libraries are installed in different places on each Linux distro. Figuring out which ones to ask for (and making sure the program can find them) is the real work that the .Deb or .RPM installers do.
A fun way to try this out is with Portable Apps. Anything called a “portable app” either doesn’t use additional libraries, or carries the libraries it needs with it.
If you find a portable app for Ubunutu, there’s a good chance the Fedora version is an identical file, and works fine on Ubuntu. There’s lots of reasons it might not work, but it can be fun to try.
For the most part, the only reason any Linux program is unavailable on a different version of Linux is that no one has bothered to build the necessary installer for that combination of program and OS.
.RPM was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match .Deb was supposed to solve this by being universal, since any other OS can implement it to match (about 60% actually do). I think Flatpacks and Snaps might solve this by being universal, at some point…
Source: I’ve built installer packages for various operating systems.
I would be so okay with this. My grandmother was a boss with a badass gaming rig.
Yeah. I was literally just talking about how my SteamDeck is going to let me retire my remaining Windows PC. And by retire it, I mean install Linux, and continue to enjoy it.
I… Like… potatoes…?
I heard they tried to fit node_packages, but the scale caused the sun to become too small to see.
That’s the most evil thing I’ve heard in awhile, and I would absolutely make use of it anyway.
Gotta let it know we mean business! /s
Shoot, if running a ceremonial kshell script every Friday evening makes me a ludite, I’ll be shouting angrily at the cloud any day now.
/s, obviously, beacuse I already yell angrily at the cloud.
That would be awesome.
I will sign up on day one to the “every ducking sports team” block list.
I love sportball as much as the next person (I don’t), but how can Paris, Illinois possibly have this many different sportball teams?
You beat me to it. Everyone knows you get Vin Diesel if you accidentally bleach The Rock. The wax museum artists should have known better.
I’ve held off until now (I haven’t), but now I’m going to call it (for the 1000th time):
This will be the year of the Linux desktop.
That’s true. We’re just getting the window managers and drivers ready for everyone who will follow us.
That is true.