What blobs is this guy talking about? Device drivers and/or the APKs that support them? Those have existed since forever. Google used to publish them to the AOSP repo. If they've stopped doing that, it's not that important, since they can be easily extracted from the system images, or from the devices themselves.
Google apps/libs? That's a growing problem, as more and more apps are starting to rely on those, hence MicroG.
The fact that they keep throwing money at useless stuff like that new design for their logo, while at the same time they refuse to keep useful services online, is a clear sign of the downfall of the Mozilla Foundation.
What I don't like about these "eye-candy" distros is packaging--do they have the required human resources to ensure packages are always up to date, especially when security problems arise?
>You can also install any downloaded .deb file designed for the version of elementary OS (or underlying version of Ubuntu or Debian)
Installing external .deb packages is usually the worst idea: the application will break when the ABI of one of the linked libraries changes, for example.
"a > 1000% spike in 404s" overloaded your servers? Such are your generation times? Can I bring the entire NPM ecosystem down from my ADSL line using some silly threaded code to make requests to randomly named packages?
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