Oh, I don’t deny they have their place. I just hope that these don’t become the only or ‘default’ way Linux apps are packaged by major distros.

I would so buy this deck. Is there any plan to release them in some updated form? Perhaps rename them slightly (“Oligarch-e-mon - Gotta Expose 'em All!” instead of “Most Wanted”) and just remove the target imagery… then there’s no excuse to censor them.

… would the creator consider just releasing PDFs of the cards so we could print our own for free outside the US?

Indeed, a noble animal

Good for Mint. Someone has to keep app and lib developers honest, not hiding behind packaging every app with its special-snowflake version of every dependency. (And I’m a developer, so I know it isn’t always easy to make an app robust against upstream version changes, but ignoring the reasons something might break can cause one to overlook possible errors or invalid assumptions in one’s own code.)

Tools to aid in mass-deployment are nice, but they shouldn’t be a crutch to hide overly-sensitive apps from their host OS’s valid version changes and updates. IMHO.

After the last few years in particular, I’m at peace with giving the corvids and raccoons their chance. We should probably go extinct, for the good of the planet. I just hope it isn’t too painful.

Me too, haven’t needed office for years. 99% of the time the end product needs to be a PDF anyway, which LibreOffice does an amazing job producing.

So… like engineered ambergris then?

Out of the loop – what’s he so afraid of? hmmmmm.

Love Vivaldi! (Desktop) Please, please keep Manifest v2 or bring uBlock Origin into the fold, somehow, with its full intact capabilities (I have never felt the supposed slowness the v3 system supposedly improves.)

Thsnk you for allowing edits of theme css to keep square corners on tabs etc. Personally I don’t like the recent ‘bubble’ defaults

Can Canada join, please??

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That’s fine, this is a legally valid substitute.

A travesty it wasn’t a 9-0 decision, though!

Fair enough… I admit I’m a bit of an old curmudgeon, set in my ways. :s

Aren’t you at all curious why it failed though? (If not, no harm no foul – I certainly know time diagnosing a bug is always in short supply, from personal experience). What if it’s a symptom of something important that might happen later even in Fedora 41?

Sometimes it just feels like containers are used as justification for devs to blow off bug reports. As a dev I want to understand why a failure occurs.

Agreed there – it’s good for onboarding devs and ensuring consistent build environment.

Once an app is ‘stable’ within a docker env, great – but running it outside of a container will inevitably reveal lots of subtle issues that might be worth fixing (assumptions become evident when one’s app encounters a different toolchain version, stdlib, or other libraries/APIs…). In this age of rapid development and deployment, perhaps most shops don’t care about that since containers enable one to ignore such things for a long time, if not forever…

But like I said, I know my viewpoint is a losing battle. I just wish it wasn’t used so much as a shortcut to deployment where good documentation of dependencies, configuration and testing in varied environments would be my preference.

And yes, I run a bare-metal ‘pet’ server so I deal with configuration that might otherwise be glossed over by containerized apps. Guess I’m just crazy but I like dealing with app config at one layer (host OS) rather than spread around within multiple containers.

I hope the surgeon said, at least, “Even if you conclude against my advice that it wasn’t necessary based on your data before this call, it is most definitely necessary now, as the patient is open on my operating table at this moment.” <slam>.

Call me crusty, old-fart, unwilling to embrace change… but docker has always felt like a cop-out to me as a dev. Figure out what breaks and fix it so your app is more robust, stop being lazy.

I pretty much refuse to install any app which only ships as a docker install.

No need to reply to this, you don’t have to agree and I know the battle has been already lost. I don’t care. Hmmph.

Are we at the point that we need to form a mutual-defense pact (or re-assert The Commonwealth, ie. petition UK, Australia et al)?