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JRaccoon

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Howdy! 👋

I’m level 27 web dev from 🇫🇮 Finland. Full stack developer by trade but more into server side and sysadmin stuff.

A furry or something. Why be yourself when you can be fluffy raccoon on the internet?

I’m also on Mastodon: @jakeRaccoon

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Sorry to ask, I’m not really familiar with Linux desktop nowadays: I’ve seen Flatpak and Flathub talked about a lot lately and it seems to be kinda a controversial topic. Anyone wanna fill me in what’s all the noice about? It’s some kind of cross-distro “app store” thingy?

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Cool, thanks for the explanation.

a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning

Does that mean that if I were to install Application A and Application B that both have dependency to package C version 1.2.3 I then would have package C (and all of its possible sub dependencies) twice on my disk? I don’t know how much external dependencies applications on Linux usually have but doesn’t that have the potential to waste huge amounts of disk space?

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Well, just by looking at responses in this thread, the controversy most definitely still exists. Some seem to like it and others hate it fiercely.

JRaccoon ,
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I think it would be useful with updates when setting up a new phone or after a factory reset when basically every app needs an update

JRaccoon ,
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Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled

JRaccoon ,
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Telegram has a builtin support for proxies and the authorities probably won’t be able to block all of them

JRaccoon ,
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It’s still unclear if he’s allowed to use the logo and such. The national broadcaster Yle (which itself has a strict policy against advertising) allowed it in the national show and argued that (quote) “Windows 95 is no longer a protected trademark today. The product is hardly used by anyone anymore. Thus the name and the costume are allowed”

But EBU might have a different stance ofc

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I remember reading an article about how we’re already able to simulate basic tastes, like sweetness and sourness, digitally. So just you wait, we might have lickable HTML elements in the future

JRaccoon ,
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I don’t remember the exact article I was reading but doing a quick google search yields this one for example. And here’s the actual research paper: www.miyashita.com/…/1hFnR7TlUO4OXNpQFeuN30

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Good luck, because last time they tried to replace the Start menu with a new UI went so well…

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