JRaccoon

Well, just by looking at responses in this thread, the controversy most definitely still exists. Some seem to like it and others hate it fiercely.

Cool, thanks for the explanation.

a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning

Does that mean that if I were to install Application A and Application B that both have dependency to package C version 1.2.3 I then would have package C (and all of its possible sub dependencies) twice on my disk? I don’t know how much external dependencies applications on Linux usually have but doesn’t that have the potential to waste huge amounts of disk space?

Sorry to ask, I’m not really familiar with Linux desktop nowadays: I’ve seen Flatpak and Flathub talked about a lot lately and it seems to be kinda a controversial topic. Anyone wanna fill me in what’s all the noice about? It’s some kind of cross-distro “app store” thingy?

I think it would be useful with updates when setting up a new phone or after a factory reset when basically every app needs an update

Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled

Telegram has a builtin support for proxies and the authorities probably won’t be able to block all of them

It’s still unclear if he’s allowed to use the logo and such. The national broadcaster Yle (which itself has a strict policy against advertising) allowed it in the national show and argued that (quote) “Windows 95 is no longer a protected trademark today. The product is hardly used by anyone anymore. Thus the name and the costume are allowed”

But EBU might have a different stance ofc

I don’t remember the exact article I was reading but doing a quick google search yields this one for example. And here’s the actual research paper: https://www.miyashita.com/researches/1hFnR7TlUO4OXNpQFeuN30

I remember reading an article about how we’re already able to simulate basic tastes, like sweetness and sourness, digitally. So just you wait, we might have lickable HTML elements in the future

So nice to be able to play more Portal after all these years

Nokia E71 with the full QWERTY keyboard. Loved it, even though the keys were too small to comfortable use. I guess technically speaking that’s still a smartphone so before that I had some Samsung flip phone, can’t remember the exact model

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

This was the book that got me to stop hating books.

I didn’t like reading as a child or teenager until I was forced to read this one for a mandatory book report in high school and really, really liked it. I don’t know why, I don’t even remember that much about the book, but it got me interested in science fiction and reading in general.