mozilla has joined the enshittification train. Ditch them until they reverse course.

I’ve not looked into it, but it’s probably pitched as a feel-good way of supporting artists.

It absolutily isn’t. Get your head out of the sand.

Friend of mine has a Merc that detects oncoming traffic and auto-adjusts the high beams to not illuminate other cars and it works really well. But there is always a short delay, so for half a second oncoming drivers get to enjoy the power of the sun.

I was talking about myself. Telling someone else they didn’t understand the joke while failing to understand theirs myself

whoosh

You do understand that greentext guy is actually white and the people he’s living with are his family, right? That’s the whole joke here.

No. AMD and Intel have a bunch of legally binding agreements that allow each other to manufacture CPUs that are essentially 100% compatible architecture-wise. You can install any OS on an Intel CPU, replace that CPU with one from AMD and expect things to work just the same (talking compatibility, not performance) and vice versa. The 64bit extension for the x86 architecture was created by and is patented by AMD. Intel are able to use that extension in any of their processors without paying royalties, but AMD are the owners of that specific technology. The contracts between these two companies also dictate that those contracts need to be renegotiated in case either company gets bought out, which makes me think that qualcomm would only care about buying intel because it would allow them to essentially permanently deadlock all negotiations and thus kill the x86 architecture, immediatly handing the entire CPU industry to ARM and, going by market share, themselves.

It is a hard requirement and thus part of the experience.

Change in leadership would also mean that the deal with AMD would have to be renegotiated, meaning that intel under qualcomm would not be legally able to create new 64-bit CPUs.

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They technically do tell you, even in the graphical software store. And the speed difference between snaps and debs has been largely nullified by now.

you can install firefox, but even if you click ‘make firefox my default browser’, it won’t. It will open the settings, wait a second and then show you another button. Clicking that will do what you wanted - for web links. Pdf files? Html files? Searches from the start menu? Still all open edge.

On ubuntu it takes maybe a minute to remove the firefox snap, add the mozilla repo and install from there. Those dummie packages are more for convenience than anything nefarious. I agree that snaps have been made unavoidable if you’re not paying attention, but I disagree that it’s a bad thing. Ubuntu is migrating from .debs to snaps, so it makes sense that those become ever more prominant.

They do not prevent you from adding repos and installing from those. They don’t even try to make it slightly more difficult to do so than it was before. Microsoft force you to use edge. Cannot really disable it. Can’t remove it. Can’t simply switch away from it. See the difference?

You know that these are ai generated, right?

They hope to incentivise customers to use intel foundries by splitting them off. Intel compete with AMD and nvidia in many segments, so neither of these companies would want to manufacture their products at intel. But turning their foundries into a separate company could maybe change that (probably not). Their foundries also bleed money like crazy, separating them could stabilize share prices for the ‘main’ intel brand.

But snaps do have shared dependencies to a degree. Also, do you use gentoo?

I disagree. Native packages are still a bit more hassle-free, but snaps have gotten really good by now. And you can do some things that debs can’t, like setting up an entire nextcloud installation with a four-words-long terminal command.

1. Go to <insert distro>.com
2. Download iso
3. burn iso to usb stick (ventoy!)
4. install on pc
5. install ublock origin on firefox
6. done

also get a dumb tv ofc

edit: despite what people will say, ubuntu is still a rock solid distro. Alternatively, tumbleweed is brilliant too.

I’m sure it’s not literally all of them, and it’s almost never preinstalled. But available in the repositories.