Because snaps are terrible. They constantly break parts of apps for no reason. If you have container issues with a flatpak, just use flatseal to punch a hole through the container. With snaps, people will tell you to install the non-snap version because that’s easier than beating snap into submission. I learned that the hard way when I had a university project with kubernetes and docker was installed as a snap. I spent way too much time trying to make it work at all before giving up and switching to a VM on my work laptop where it went surprisingly smooth without snaps.

Flatpaks are better in every way and since this isn’t about money, we should all just move on and use the best tool for the job.

But what does canonical think should happen when you run sudo apt install firefox and press Y? That’s right, you now have firefox as a snap. Have fun waiting for 5 seconds every time you start it.

Shit like that scares new users away from linux as a whole.

My personal machines are all on linux already. But unfortunately my work laptop isn’t and won’t be unless I find a different job.

Mint gets rid of snaps, distros that don’t are just bad imo.

Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Win is one of the most windows things that could happen. You just press some keys that should do nothing and boom, microsoft ad. I hope the EU version of windows will be stripped of that crap.

Isn’t the web version a full client that works without a phone nearby nowadays?

It’s already back to working for me (frankfurt data center) and I was able to order my new deck.

But what makes ubuntu better as a first distro than mint or fedora? It installs snaps even when you specifically invoke apt, a new user who doesn’t understand the messages will press yes, see that it seemed to work and have issues later that can scare them away from linux.

What I’m trying to say is that we should bash the people still recommending ubuntu.

You don’t need an exhaust manifold, you need an intimidator!

I’d expect a developer to understand that. A stack trace works the exact same way.

But what browser do we use then?

I agree that it goes against their core values, but they have shitloads of internal sensors that could be used very unethically.

That’s fair, but a lot of people just don’t have wires from their TV to the couch but chargers on the couch, so plugging the controller into that negates the downsides.

Approved means licensed in this case. This is a plot to sell those licenses by literally forcing third party manfacturers to buy them.

Classic microsoft. They’ll say they do it to combat cheating, but it’s just another step to lock people into their ecosystem and squeeze more money out of them.

I’m in a bit of a similar situation. I like to get mad at people who drive witg their lights off when it’s raining and I’ve memorized which cars have their tail lights off when the daytime running lights are on so I know which ones to flash my highbeams at and which ones can be seen by people behind them.

No problem. I was planning on giving one or two pieces of advice when I started writing that but half way through realized it was a nice way for me to organize my thoughts and I kept going and it turned into an essay.

And it’s happening again, so I’ll elaborate: Having conversations and actually wording things to other people instead of having unclear thoughts running through your head is great. I often see people saying stupid shit and start typing a reply, but then I start seeing their point or realize that their opinion is so far away from mine that I can’t find any common ground to argue on and delete my half-written comment. I used to think I was just wasting time on the internet, but I’m starting to realize that the act of writing it down was putting order into the mess in my head.

It’s an MMO, you can’t just go out and mod that. You could mod it visually, but that would eat into their profits from the store so it makes sense to not allow that as long as the game gets updates.

I think of my ADHD brain like a computer with three little cores (as opposed to one big core), shitloads of cache and barely any RAM.

Using three cores on the same thing is harder than using one core and the same is true for my brain. But if you do have something that works well with it, it works really well.

Lots of cache mean I can quickly pick up topics and do well with them as long as they fit the cache. If there’s too much to fit in the cache, normal people can just put that into RAM and pick it back up later without problems.

But my lack of RAM means I can’t keep a lot of tasks in my head that I’m not actively working on. And what does a computer do when it’s out of RAM? That’s right, it writes the RAM to a hard drive so it can pick it up later when it’s needed. So I do the same thing. If there’s a lot on my mind that isn’t useful right now , I write it down and actively tell myself to forget it and trust the list.

If I don’t do that, my RAM will get filled up very quickly and I get into this weird state of ADHD paralysis where I don’t get anything done and feel stressed out about it.

Recognizing when that happens and using this simple tool has helped me a lot already. And it’s important to take the 5 minutes to do this instead of trying to do your work if you see it isn’t working.

Another thing that helps me a lot is tight deadlines. On stuff that should be be done yesterday, I usually have no trouble focusing. The same is true for prod being broken. I can drop everything and go full steam ahead for 4 hours straight when it happens. I used to just procrastinate until that happened and when I actually didn’t have enough time to do it properly, I’d be able to focus.

Now that I found out about my ADHD, I’m trying to build myself a situation where this plays out to my favor instead of leading to super-stressed all-nighters. That means regularly (almost daily) talking to my boss about my tasks and having her set micro-deadlines. The important takeaway for me is that setting my own deadlines doesn’t work. Like not at all. I need someone else to hold me accountable and it becomes easy.

One more thing that works well for me is pair programming. If I can explain what I’m doing to someone else or work on someone else’s problem, time just flies. Even if it’s just five minutes of walking around and helping people with little things, it gives me a lot of energy.

But I also don’t work from home even though I could because having colleagues around me helps me focus, so I’m not sure if that would also help you.

Als man im Internet alles Ernst nehmen konnte und niemand getrollt hat.

This sounds like a perfect use case for AI generation. Give it a few more years and pulp trek might become a thing.