Jumuta

network effects

the US will stop whatever Australia does in this regard and will punish us for it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_CIA_involvement_in_the_Whitlam_dismissal

It's my humble opinion that I'm the humblest person in the world, and so I think I also deserve to be always treated like royalty on this platform >:(

very much agree with the post about the politics lacking nuance, but I think it's a problem with social media in general

the communities/echo chambers that form around instances probably amplify that though

basically duckduckgo without much privacy promises

i feel this problem might be worse on the fediverse because of the political communities that form around instances, e.g. .ml, .blahaj.zone, .world

this is comedy gold

2012 laptops are still very modern and people calling them old are mean :(

cool!

there's different ways to install things because they each have their use cases in which they're better than others (or used to have use cases)

• binary package managers (e.g. apt): fast and lightweight because it only downloads/installs the necessary binaries

• flatpak: can be installed on any distro, but takes up more storage space because they're installed in a sandbox and all the dependencies are also installed with it, for every application

• snap: same thing as flatpak but a bit worse, but some applications are only packaged for snap because canonical paid a lot of big companies to package for snap (rhey didn't incentivise against flatpak, they just didn't fund flatpak)

• appimage: the 'windows exe' kinda thing and has all the dependencies bundled so distro agnostic, but you have to manage the appimage files yourself unless you get a manager for it and you can't update them centrally like you can do with other stuff

• source code repos (e.g. aur): have to compile every new version yourself on your machine, so is slow to update, but often offers things not in the binary package manager

• .sh files for installation: idk why these are used, they're just annoying. a lot of proprietary software from corpos use them (probably so they can verify dependencies themselves and not trust the system)

• binariy files (e.g. .deb): same thing as with appimage except they're not distro agnostic

• tar.gz: is just a compressed file format like zip