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Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023
  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?
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    3 days ago

    The quoted image does not say so

    It does exactly say so. Flatpak is the only supported and official method of installation when you’re not using Ubuntu.

    As for the Fedora issue, that is a completely different thing. That is also Flatpak, so its not the package format itself the issue.

    Exactly. And the Flatpak version from Fedora was unusable.

    So where does the developers say that anything that is not their official Flatpak package is “borderline unusable”?

    They don’t. It’s just unsupported.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Fan of Flatpaks ...or Not?
    283·
    5 days ago

    Flatpaks are great for situations where installing software is unnecessary complex or complicated.

    I have Steam installed for some games, and since this is a 32 bits application it would install a metric shit-don of 32 bit dependencies I do not use for anything else except Steam, so I use the Flatpak version.

    Or Kdenlive for video editing. Kdenlive is the only KDE software I use but when installing it, it feels like due to dependencies I also get pretty much all of the KDE desktop’s applications I do not need nor use nor want on my machine. So Flatpak it is.

    And then there is software like OBS, which is known for being borderline unusable when not using the only officially supported way to use it on Linux outside of Ubuntu – which is Flatpak.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•How do you deal with renewing ID/official documentation?
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    27 days ago

    depending on how you look

    … and even more where you cross the border. If I want to go (like in “just walk there”) from Poland to Germany, I could use this bridge for example:

    It’s really just an ordinary bridge across a river, no border patrol, no ID check, nothing. Just walk from one country into another.

    Or if I want to cross the border from Germany to France, I could just use that publicly accessible hiking path:

    (Seen from French side, the barrier where the people sit is the whole border crossing point.) And this bridge with a view brings you from France to Spain.

    Except border check points you’ll find luxury housing on French side and commercial buildings (stores and some warehouses) on Spain side.

    At no point in that imaginary journey (now that I think about it, this would make a great road trip with hiking parts) you need your ID card when you travel to another country.

    Long story short: It’s really easy to cross borders in the EU.

  • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•How do you deal with renewing ID/official documentation?
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    27 days ago

    I live in the EU and thus I can travel pretty far away without having to ever show my ID card. Maybe it’s just personal experience but whenever I had to show it, no-one cared about it wasn’t valid anymore.

    Another trick is acting stupid: “Oh, thank you! I didn’t notice! When would a normal person check that, eh? 🙂 … Right on next Monday I’ll going to renew it!” and then hasta la vista, we won’t meet ever again anyways.

    The next time I have to renew it, is in 2031. I guess I won’t renew it till 2040.