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Cake day: August 31st, 2023

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  • well, the point of flatpak is to have bundled dependencies so they run predictably no matter the distro

    if one of your software’s dependency gets updated, and your software isn’t, you may run into issues - like a function from the library you’re using getting removed, or its behaviour changing slightly. and some distros may also apply patches to some of their library that breaks stuff too!
    often, with complex libraries, even when you check the version number, you may have behavioural differences between distros depending on the compile flags used (i.e. some features being disabled, etc.)
    so, while in theory portable builds work, for them to be practical, they most often are statically linked (all the dependencies get built into the executable - no relying on system libraries). and that comes with a huge size penalty, even when compared to flatpaks, as those do have some shared dependencies between flatpaks! you can for example request to depend on a specific version of the freedesktop SDK, which will provide you with a bunch of standard linux tools, and that’ll only get installed once for every package you have that uses it








  • you probably got a kernel panic, which froze the system. it’s like a BSOD on windows, except on linux, there isn’t a proper stack to handle them when they happen while you have a graphicam session running, so it kinda just freezes

    i don’t think reisub would do anything, because the kernel was probably already dead

    you don’t risk corrupting much data by hard-reseting your pc on linux – journaling filesystems, like ext4 or btrfs, are built to be resilient to sudden power loss (or kernel crashing). if a program was writing a file at thz time the kernel crashed, this one file may be corrupted, because the program would get killed before it finished writing the file, but all in all, it’s pretty unlikely. outside of fs bugs, which are thankfully few and far between on time-tested filesytems like ext4, you shouldn’t have to worry much about sudden power loss!

    unfortunately, figuring out the cause of these issues can be challenging – i’ve had many such occurences, and you have no logs to go off of (because the system doesn’t have time to save them), so you’d most likely need to figure out a way to send your kernel logs onto another system to record them

    as general mitigation steps, you should try monitoring your cpu temperature a bit closer - it could be high temperature tripping the safeties of your motherboard/cpu to avoid physical damage to them - in which case, try installing a daemon to control your cpu frequency, like auto-cpufreq, or something like thermald specifically made to throttle your cpu if it gets too hot (though i think that one is intel specific)



  • i mean, the problem isn’t the portal in those cases, and i think the portal is a very cool idea – imo, the fact that these people get in the news for it is probably why they’re doing it, it’s just one way to get people’s attention by doing outrageous stuff around a new attraction

    it’s nothing new, and eventually dies off, and there are probably also many events of people being nice to each other that go unreported

    edit: also, yeah, showing body parts generally shouldn’t be considered that harshly imo - of you’re forcing people to look at them, they’re probably not pretty, but I wouldn’t call those “vulgaire” either







  • AppImages can be double clicked and executed. They are not a pain to use.

    i can understand that, but flatpaks are easier to upgrade and automatically integrated into your package manager, which (i believe) isn’t as straight forward for appimages. also there’s one major repo where you can find most apps (flathub) making app-hunting less daunting i feel like.
    also, once your app is installed, it’s always in your system menu, so that doesn’t change much in the long run

    Comfortable setup that carried over from Ubuntu LTS.

    can’t you carry over flatpaks as well? you can probably copy /var/lib/flatpak or wherever they store their stuff from one system to another, or failing that, save all the app IDs you have installed, and re-install them onto your new system, backing up ~/.var to keep all your data!