If you’re expecting stability for any Ubuntu release, that went out the window when Canonical started forcing Snaps.

But non-LTS Ubuntu releases have always been a testing ground for less-than-stable changes. uutils is just one of them, and the only way to make them stable is to see how they’re being used in the wild.

Again: Google would not be doing this if there was no perceived benefit for them. If it was merely a matter of adding a scarier warning, then what purpose does the new “student/hobbyist” account type that restricts the number of devices your app can be installed on serve??

The headline is incomplete to an extent that it’s dishonest because it doesn’t reflect the reality of what Google is saying.

Google will only allow “experienced users” to “continue” sideloading with the new, draconian restrictions that Google will be the arbiter of. “Continue” implies that sideloading will continue as it is in its currently acceptable form. However, that is not the case. If it were, Google would not be changing anything at all because there would be no perceived benefit for them doing so.

So in a way, yes, the entire article is wrong, because it doesn’t adequately push back on the premise that it implies and instead uncritically parrots what Google would prefer people to believe, which is that people that want to sideload their apps and use third-party app stores like F-Droid will not be negatively impacted, which is not true.

It’s not FUD. The “install unknown apps” toggle already does what you’re describing. Whatever the intentionally vague blurbs from Google imply, whatever the new toggle ends up being will be worse.

And that doesn’t account for the need they’re creating for a “student/hobbyist” account that Google is creating. If you use such an account, your app can only be installed on a limited number of devices, which Google will control.

The “install unknown apps” toggle already does that. Whatever that vague blurb implies, whatever the new toggle ends up being will be worse.

And that doesn’t account for the need they’re creating for a “student/hobbyist” account that Google is creating. If you use such an account, your app can only be installed on a limited number of devices, which Google will control.

Yeah, this is garbage. Nobody should accept this. People need to keep fighting this because the “hobbyist account” bullshit still gives Google full control over what apps you can install by creating an arbitrary restriction that they can change on a whim.

Nothing short of leaving the process of installing apps from outside the Play Store exactly the same as it is now should be accepted.

The Verge is laundering Google’s Big Brother bullshit with their headline by making it sound like Google responded in an adequate manner, which is exactly what Google wants.

12 and 13 are great examples of leftism leaving “leftists’” bodies the moment that animal liberation comes up.

I’m replying to you from Asahi Linux on an Apple Silicon Macbook. The drivers are definitely there!

FEX emulation of x86 on ARM CPUs has made many x86 games playable on my Macbook.

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Wrong. Have to start adoption somewhere, and doing it in a non-LTS release is a great move.

Same.

The detractors of this project portray it like it’s a far-off pipe dream to be a drop-in replacement for GNUtils. Meanwhile, it’s still a relatively young project that already has 85% compatibility. I think we can do it. Lol.

^L take

Eat shit. Fuck off already. Decades too late. Pelosi always sucked.

He’s a self-described democratic socialist, which is different from a social democrat, as you labeled him. Yes, many of his proposed policies are steps toward social democracy, rather than actual socialism, but I can’t expect one mayor, even in one of the largest cities, to somehow enact real socialism.

That distinction aside: all we can do is apply pressure and hope that Mamdani doesn’t meaningfully sell-out the working class in NYC.

It is unwise for anyone to bet against certain odds.

Even if you’re cynical about the No Kings stuff (I have mixed feelings as well), mocking people that are trying to do something is needlessly mean-spirited and cruel.

We (the working class) are ostensibly on the same side (unless you’re a filthy class traitor), so if you have critiques, be specific and constructive with them instead of shitting on people. Tell them about other forms of resistance and mutual aid or something. The crossover with the kinds of people that show up to large protest events and those that engage other forms of resistance is pretty large in my experience, so what you’re saying just comes off like you don’t actually want a peoples’ uprising and instead take more joy in bringing people down.

I’m glad you found your way to being vegan! I have a pretty different background (I was never a vegetarian) and I just want to share as well:

I definitely agree that if you’re doing whole foods, you’re gonna have a great time being vegan. I am what I’d call a junk food vegan (because I was a junk food carnist for all my life previously), and have been for ~5 years, but I met someone wonderful that’s showing me how to enjoy eating good whole foods and I’m really enjoying it!

I went from carnist to vegan immediately in an area that is considered a food desert. It’s very easy once you internalize the ethics and understand that the exploitation we do to other beings that can suffer is wrong. I will never go back to excusing and paying for the rape, murder, or torture of anyone ever again.

Stories like yours and mine are why it’s so great that vegan food is just regular food. Even carnists and vegetarians eat it because it’s normal food (lentils, beans, oats, leafy greens, etc.), and if they don’t, they will simply malnourish themselves or perish. Most people, aside from some very unfortunate cases, are already used to eating “vegan” food. They just need to understand why consuming animal products when it is possible for them to avoid them is wrong and harmful.

Fuck that. Trans people are my friends. Transphobes can catch these hands.

It is cheaper than subsidizing the rape and exploitation of animals, so yes :)