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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlI have a question about flatpak
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    15 days ago

    Ohai, let’s load our own individual copy of everything separately. Since - we hope - it’s all bult from pristine sources and unlikely to match versions, all that static code load isn’t shared with anything else.

    It’s gonna load slower, take up buckets of space, and not care whether it’s some crusty old thing with sploits aplenty.

    I miss when we had mentors to remind us not only How to be better, but also Why. My mentor was like if obi-wan was born in Dublin. His sarcasm cut deep if you could parse what he was saying.


  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlI have a question about flatpak
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    15 days ago

    Quick reminder: because flatpak hides your installation state from the system, part of flatpaks could be wildly out of date or toxic releases and your system will.not.care nor even show you anything about it.

    Enterprise tools - or normal stuff that acts like them - that check remotely what you have installed and let you know you’re potentially out of date (like tenable but not junk) will not learn anything about flatpak content.

    Good luck. Every good thing about enterprise packaging is thrown out the window. Flatpaks are toxic.





  • Unbelievable geniuses don’t exist

    “I haven’t seen one so it must not exist” ?

    I’ve met one. He’s unbelievable. He’s a great guy, but sometimes a little hard to follow if you’re only taking part in one conversation at a time when he’s talking in two and listening to a third because he expects you to be on the ball in your own discussion when he jumps in to drop a tidbit or ask a question like a chess master playing 4 games in the park at once – in heated discussions about topics as diverse as economy, politics, technology, and the history of Coffee. He’s so nice and so unfathomably intelligent that when he’s working you just naturally want to see if he needs anything on the way back to his desk and otherwise leave him alone to craft miracles in the environment of his choosing.

    Like, I’ve sat down and taken those tests from back in the day when measuring IQ was a thing. I did well. I’m proud of how well I did. This guy cannot be measured by any yardstick built by mortals.