This is insane. Why is it illegal to use a phone while driving (here in the UK at least) but not that? They are basically the same thing!
Churbleyimyam
joined 1 year ago
Thanks for the links. I really want flatpak to work for me because I like the sandboxing but the storage thing is a bit of a killer for me at the moment and I could not for the life of me get Digikam, Shotwell or Rawtherapee to hand image files over to GIMP with the flatpak versions, whereas the repo versions were fine out of the box. Also, I feel like flatpak programs are much slower to open but that might just be me.
I'd rather have a keyboard mounted on the steering wheel and operate the car with bash aliases.
Apart from being dangerous in a car they are also super annoying. I got a Walkman a couple of years ago just so I could pause and skip tracks by pressing a button in my pocket.
I only have old vehicles and I'm actually shocked that these things are operated via touchscreen on modern cars - I thought they were just for unnecessary infotainment stuff...
As a humble linux user of the last year or two my experience has been that anything that is not in the Debian repo is a confusing nuisance. Nobody told me how to get appimages to integrate with my desktop. I had to rummage the internet and learn how. Compare this to a single click in Gnome software or simple command in the terminal for apps in the repo. I also installed flatpak, so I could get programs that weren't available in the repo but nobody told me I would have to install and rummage Flatseal to enable them to work properly, that it would make my backups and restores take 900% longer and would rinse my data when they need updating. It's been annoying enough that I've ended up learning how to install from source as well. Maybe it's cool that I've learned how to do all this new stuff but to be honest I just feel like I've had to do loads of extra head-scratching and unnecessary work. I did it willingly because I've been committed to not being held back from using open source software but I couldn't expect my friends and family to do any of this, so if I do get them onto Linux I can't recommend these programs to them.
Current tier list:
- Debian repo
- .deb downloaded from a website!
- Enjoy using application, go for a bike ride.
- Make sure I'm free for a couple of hours, install from source.
- Appimage
- Do without given application
- Flatpak
UK government buildings are stuffed full of their CCTV cameras as well. Because David Cameron.
Apple have been getting so many giant fines that it makes me think the EU have really just found their own way of taxing them. Which I'm in favour of.
I figured out why this is the case but only after I checked it on a calculator.
It's me, I am the problem.
You could self-host wireguard on a cheap VPS using something like YUNOhost. You would be limited to the one IP address but you could also host other useful stuff on the same server like email, website, Nextcloud etc for no additional cost. On a slight tangent, you could also check out seedboxes or even TorBox.
What do you use for randomized fingerprinting?
I do hope flatpak can solve these things. I have the deb installs all working harmoniously at the moment, so I don't want to touch them but will have another look at flatpak versions at some point in the future.