even Valve told Ubuntu users to use the Flatpak for Steam instead of the Snap

Hahaha really? That’s awesome. I wonder if Canonical will ever take the hint that nobody wants Snap when better, more open alternatives exist

Yeah, package manager is a big one. Many of us got burned by rpm’s early on and just avoided all rpm-based distros since then.

Of course as you say that hasn’t been a problem for over 10 years but the scars haven’t gone away.

I’d only recommend Ubuntu to someone if I knew they knew some else using Ubuntu (so I could tell them to hassle that person instead of me when they have problems).

Otherwise, I’d absolutely recommend Fedora, because it’s actually up to date unlike Debian. I use it myself because it tends to have the best of what the open source community has to offer while not needing constant tweaking

And then managers go “why does shadow IT exist?”

…you have my condolences

Yep, being familiar with the data model is 98% of the effort.

The remaining 2% is the query

It’s more like android apps from early versions of Android before the permissions became user-managable.

It won’t prompt you to give the application access to certain permissions, all the permissions are predefined in the manifest by whoever published the application to flathub. When you run the application you just hope it won’t cause too much havoc (you can of course verify the permissions before running it, but I guarantee most people won’t)

Flatpak supports sandboxing but due to how most desktop applications want access to your home folder, network etc many apps simply disable it.

Regardless of the level of sandboxing applied to the app, Flatpak is a great way for a developer to package once run anywhere. Prior to Flatpak, if you wanted to support multiple distros, you had to build a package for each distro or hope somebody working on that distro would do it for you.

Inb4 AppImage was here first. And if you mention Snap then GTFO

The first thing I noticed. I was confused, thinking maybe they had an old XP machine lying around to plug in after the main one failed, but then I read further and it was just a stunt

Hybrids: the worst of both worlds.

If you want to keep relying on gasoline then just buy an ICE car

It’s like rebrands.

Most rebrands occur because the average marketing person is pretty average and “rebrand” looks good on your CV.

A couple of million later, half way through, customers hate the new brand and the marketing people who started it have already left for greener pastures

Redesigning a perfectly good design that everyone is used to allows you to put “designed Netflix user interface” on your CV, and since management has to spend a ton of money on it, suddenly your team is worth something

I disagree unless the tests are reasonably high level.

Half the time the thing you’re testing is so poorly defined that the only way to tighten that definition is to iterate.

In this sense, you’re wasting time writing tests until you’ve iterated enough to have something worth testing.

At that point, a couple of regression tests offer the biggest bang for buck so you can sanity check things are still working when you move on to another function and forget all about this one

Is the joke that the main river in Paris is so polluted that swimmers would need to wear protection?

Never mind that the swimming events would be held in a pool instead

“Fuck off Jesus” memes (or equivalent) are the best

It’s an acquired taste. Back when I was a starving student and everyone was drinking cheap alcohol and living off 2-minute noodles, I acquired the taste

MSSQL in Microsoft* cases

FTFY although arguably Microsoft and Stupid and synonyms

My house was built in the 1960’s, to New Zealand standards.

We build houses for the climate we wish we had, not the climate we actually have. All the wall cavities are empty, especially the external walls

If you’re American and you’ve been eating the food-like product labelled as “Cheese” in your supermarkets then Yes

I found this in my first and second year so I stopped buying them.

Half the time it was just “recommended reading” and the book wasn’t even used in class.

Yep, not gonna shell out $120 per book for “recommend reading”

To be fair it’s probably running on Windows.

All the servers force-restarted due to windows updates, but the update introduced an issue and now the Bing API service won’t start

Keeping shit running on Windows is always going to be a gamble

Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it’s produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

Looks like someone set it up just for show. There’s no heat source for the still. The thumper is way oversized for the size of pot and the worm condenser is relying on the surrounding air which won’t be nearly enough cooling, it needs to be submerged in circulating water