Like I said it's a personal bias, mainly about Google. The only time I had to use it was with RH's cloud and if it wasn't for their good documentation I would have dropped the client. Everytime I looked under the hood it reminded why I hate being a developer around 35% of the time.
I don't like their idea of what a docker-compose replacement should be. And reading issues and limitations about podman pod commands is very discouraging. I would love to hear what others are using and their experiences though. I avoid anything Kubernetes because of a personal bias.
>GStreamer is intended to be a swiss army knife of multimedia, PipeWire is meant to be much lower level, more like what alsa-lib, JACK or libv4l2 provides.
>PipeWire is a project that aims to greatly improve handling of audio and video under Linux. It aims to support the usecases currently handled by both PulseAudio and Jack and at the same time provide same level of powerful handling of Video input and output. It also introduces a security model that makes interacting with audio and video devices from containerized applications easy, with supporting Flatpak applications being the primary goal. Alongside Wayland and Flatpak we expect PipeWire to provide a core building block for the future of Linux application development.
If only they could help us, Firefox supporters, by stopping with the stupid market campaigns that only damages the brand. And the amount of nagging features are becoming too much. Even with my huge user.js it's like every couple of updates I have to disable something. Last week was the extensions recommendations inside about:addons, and I already had disabled "Recommend extensions when I'm browsing". The other was an icon (Firefox Sync?) added to every single browser install I manage and a tab asking me to login.
How about a do-not-nag-me flag?
In my case it's for my local development environment. I also have personal projects and I do freelancing so I was tired of having multiple computers and using virtual machines.
Getting my pc compromised in any way. My data is very important for me, both personal and from clients. Or an attacker gaining access to my accounts or servers.
I also don't like telemetry but that's outside this topic I guess.
WSL 2 requires Hyper-V. I wouldn't enable that even if you pay me. Windows already crashes too much, when you add Hyper-V to the mix it's a nightmare. I don't know how what or why it just screwed any PC I enabled it. I could swear my PC also became slower but I don't have any data to back that claim.
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Android is open source but without Gapps you can't use 90% of the mainstream apps or certain features (Google Play Services, Frameworks or whatever it's called now). That's why Android without Google is a complete pain, and why microG exists. We're already locked in.
In the past few months several services I (used to) use, one of them being paid Spotify, started to crack down on adblockers and anti-adblockers killers. I don't feel this is just a coincidence, together with Chrome changes.
I'm pretty happy about this as I want the ad companies to start getting desperate and throwing punches. It's like people won't see how bad the situation is until you they get shit almost literally thrown in their faces. Tracking, data collection and malware are too invisible for people to care.
Honestly I don't care how harsh this sounds but they should fire their entire marketing department. Or the people who are approving the bullshit we've been seeing for the past what, 2~3 years?
They're either completely clueless, don't care about damaging the brand or are just malicious. And in the process, accordingly to themselves, they aren't even making money just partners and good feels, right?
The problem is what they will do when they are at the top (or hitting rock bottom). Or when their stakeholders want to milk the cow.
It's similar to how you don't want companies to have your personal data, even if you trust them "100%". When money becomes a problem, or a solution, you'll be their last priority.
Some of the news about Windows 10 would be unthinkable a few years ago. Priorities change, and this company in particular has a history of being extremely hostile.
> Telemetry is not really a problem except to the paranoid.
How can you call anyone paranoid after all that we learned in the past decade?
> Not only is it anonymized
Oh so that's why Microsoft uses a hash of your mac address in multiple products. To make it more anonymous. I'm sure your unique advertisement id is also very important and efivars are only used to make sure your activation is legit.
> To all those who evangelize Firefox, please also see if you can donate money to Mozilla
As a Firefox user for years I lost all the motivation to donate to Mozilla because of their mixed messages.
I would like my money to go to their engineering efforts, to make the best browser in the world. You could guess to what kind of "places" I don't want my money to go to. It's nice to advocate for the free web but in the end if your browser isn't competitive everything else will fall apart.
There's a lot of FUD with things like the Mr Robot "ad" (Mozilla wasn't paid for that) but there are legitimate concerns about some of their behavior. It wasn't so long ago that I clicked on anything Mozilla with joy, but now my brain bullshit detector is automatically deployed. I love reading about Servo and anything tech related but that's about it.
I like the idea of using Arch but it concerns me that it's probably not used a lot in critical places. So way less real eyes in the packages. By real eyes I mean people who will get fired it they introduced malware by not reviewing what's getting installed. It's my own bias but projects like Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian makes me feel a lot less vulnerable. I understand the AUR/PKGBUILD, it's not about that. I'm talking about the official packages and the core.
And when I installed Manjaro it felt like a 13 years old edgy kid riced the defaults. As much as I liked installing Arch from scratch I'm not always in the mood to do it. And if you automate the process you're essentially doing the same (but you don't lose street cred right).
> It also has by far the best documentation of any distro.
It really is the best wiki format and has a lot of valueable content. I wish more projects mimicked the approach. When I'm using Debian's wiki it feels like I have to think too much.
