Size isn’t an issue imo. Applications are bulky for many more reasons than their packaging formats.
Size isn’t an issue imo. Applications are bulky for many more reasons than their packaging formats.
Interesting, didn’t know it was feasible to make the distribution open.
That doesn’t give me much to complain about in theory, but canonical has lost way too much good faith to give people a reason to keep open snap distribution going for free. They should definitely consider hosting an open store just to get people on board again.
Nothing in theory makes that an issue of flatpaks and snap, just that both rely on different means to interact with the host system that have been woefully slow to implement. If enough protocols are developed a flatpak or snap should be as capable as a native app with the safety benefits for free.
Honestly if not for the convoluted Linux FS layout, debs would be pretty serviceable and aren’t really different to the Windows solution. The fs layout makes installations way too fickle to clashing with other applications.
That and dependency hell, which distros should have never been allowed to touch beyond the core dependencies required to get your desktop running.
Nothing necessarily at the tech level. They’re more capable than Appimages or flatpaks to the point that you can use it to build a reproducible system hardened against tampering or defective updates.
The downside is that it’s controlled entirely by canonical, has limited abilities (if any?) for hosting storefronts/packages outside of their ecosystem, and said ecosystem is insecure and has already allowed multiple waves of malicious apps to reach end users because of poor moderation of listings masquerading as legitimate versions.
Canonical has also been increasingly hostile to flatpaks - removing it from Ubuntu and derivatives by default to push users towards snap.
The whole loopfs thing is just an annoyance, but the aggressive posturing by canonical as well as the closed nature of the storefront that has led to malicious attacks on end users is enough to give it more than a few haters.
I much prefer our modern package format solutions:
Yup. Some are pretty advanced now.
I saw footage of one explosion and it was pretty powerful. I’ve seen lithium batteries explode before and they seem way less violent. Guess they’re chunky (and cheap?) batteries
Broke: Israel being founded in 1948 Bespoke: DPRK being founded in 1948
A locked down Windows “gaming OS” is probably what Xbox wants to go towards in some respects. It gives Microsoft the walled garden that they want, can lock out Valve as much as they fancy, and will likely be paired with some new APIs to set back Proton/WINE a few years. Hell, they could even still release XBOX hardware for that niche.
Not Windows centric enough. Visual Basic and Excel macros.
The problem with EA is that they never bothered to moderate their games. In the end you get spinbotters and shit whilst legit players have to deal with rootkits because they’re too stingy to pay for someone to review reports and develop moderation tools.
the Overwatch system in Counterstrike (and a bunch of other tools and policies in tandem with VAC) have been way more effective; I was always more certain that a blatant or suspected cheated would be dealt with in CS than in battlefield.
You’re right, though 10mil is a lot when that financial capital that the Ukrainian military relies on is pretty sparse. Represents a nice ROI for Western powers who are definitely invested in providing maximal value for the Ukrainian military.
It was dominant to the only other tanks it was faced against, like uhhhhh Iraqi T-55s
In that case maybe not targeting Putin is ideal, but I still agree that there is little military benefit to the cruise missiles in some “deep strike” role.
Just like Kursk, stuffing limited military resources into desperate gambits isn’t going to convince any Russian politician or general that the war isn’t going in their favour.
What can Ukraine realistically hit, other than Putin himself, that would alter the outcome of the war without invoking some kind of nuclear exchange?
20 year old Qadr-110. Iran has generations of newer missiles ready to use, or smuggle to its allies.
Second time they’ve hit tel Aviv in fact. They used a drone a couple of months ago and took out a fascist on leave from Gaza.
Both times Israel has been hit with a ballistic missile (Iran and this time) they proved to Israel that they can defeat its world-renowned interception systems (backed by American Patriot missiles, no less) with 20-year old Iranian designs.
The added embarrassment both times of ALSO defeating naval detachments from the world’s largest ocean-faring empire is going to redefine military doctrines worldwide.
The target was also pretty significant. Hitting a piece of Israeli power infrastructure sends a message that the comfort of the colonisers is contingent on the decisions made in Tehran, Beirut, and Saana; every “Israeli” is now a hostage of the resistance.
rust Vs c drama getting out of hand
Iran did the same a few years ago (I think after the US/Israel busted their centrifuges?) which is probably going great for them right now.