Good point.

But still, the 30% efficient supercomputer.

The article does specify that it would report if the newest version of the firmware for the CPU family is not installed, so it doesn’t seem like this is that particular kind of BS.

Sure the threat model is different, I’m just saying it’s still a single point of failure.

Neat, wasn’t familiar with cover your tracks, super useful!

I mean yes, but currently they’re all dependent on Windows, so its less of centralizing OSes, and more changing what its centralized on.

I’ve never had an issue with Flatseal in mint. Out of curiosity, what was your issue?

Oh I understood wikifunctions primarily as a way to operate on wikidata data, I don’t know if that’s right. And you’re right it is publically available, I guess I meant more that few few folks know about it.

Wikidata is so cool, but not really public-exposed. I imagine it’s an incredible research tool though.

Seconded. Newsflash does everything I need and looks pretty smooth.

Some toasters can’t.

Well, the size estimate on flathub assumes that you’re installing every dependency, which only happens if it’s the first app you’re installing with this FreeDesktop version, which is rare. I have like 15 flatpak apps installed, all of which had a claimed install of over “1 GB”, but the flatpak install directory is only like 2 or 3 GB.

There’s just not a great way to predict how big an install will actually be from flathub.

Edit: just to give you an idea, since its only downloading the deltas, most of these “1 GB download size” Flatpak apps are downloading less than 100 MB

It says possibly snap, so we can hope…

You can do that but it gets messy fast and it’s almost impossible to uninstall a DE effectively.

Yikes.

Uhhh is that not pretty much the definition of a “tech megacorp”?

Thats a good point. I think its probably because most of the corporations who fund and contribute to the kernel are American, and coordinating financial and physical contributions would be complicated across borders. Just a hypothesis though.

Jeeeeez that was a lot. I get the sense that the kernel has worked as well as it has because people saw it as separate from geopolitics and so didnt discuss them…now that politics has wedged its way in I feel like it may have opened that door permanently.

Yeah my org is about to ban using anything but the outlook client for email access for “security” reasons, and ban all other logins. We’re on a Kubernetes cluster, so historically you’ve been able to login via Thunderbird or use the Gmail web interface as well.

If they go through with it I will riot.

Um I think it’s worth noting they had only been actually out for a month, and had unfinished firmware, etc.

Qualcomm basically said that if devs wanted to develop for their snapdragon laptops they should buy one of those, but six months after they came out is not a great time to make up your mind about that.

Not familiar with HeliumOS specifically, but for a generic atomic distro I would try layering Python temporarily, and then getting rid of it when you’re done.