So? There’s nothing preventing someone from installing either, and they’re adding Wayland support to Cinnamon.

Switching to Ubuntu is way, way better than staying on Windows.

That being said, Ubuntu is maintained by the Canonical company, and they have made some really sus decisions in the past. Things like putting Amazon ads in the application launcher and then trying to gaslight people when the inevitable backlash arrived.

The meme above refers to Canonical’s own Snap packaging format (think of it like UWP/Microsoft Store apps vs. “regular” Win32 apps), and the way they’re pushing for its adoption. Snap is installed by default on Ubuntu and official Ubuntu flavors. You can uninstall it manually, but Canonical has modified the APT package manager so that when an application is available as a Snap package, it automatically installs the Snap back-end and the application as a Snap package without notifying the user (instead of installing the .deb-packaged applications, which is what happens on all other distributions that use APT). Canonical recently also ordered that official Ubuntu flavors (which are maintained by independent groups) can’t include Flatpak, a universal packaging format that directly competes with Snap, in their default installations.

Bro, that is literally the first comment on the post! None of the solutions were posted when it was made.

They’re wrong, but you are just being a dick.

XWayland has something called a “rootful mode” where it opens an X11 session as a window nested inside a Wayland session. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij3rsqX2pKQ XWayland will be started as your own user, but maybe you could use sudo -u ... to set a different user.

The other possibility is to switch to another terminal session with a different user, start an X11 session with startx, and use x11vnc -listen 127.0.0.1 -forever -passwd PASS1234 to run a VNC server that’s only accessible from the local machine.

I watch the Daily Silksong News. Tomorrow, for sure…

Tech support scammers HATE this trick!

it’s okay, just tell the AI to reproduce that image one-to-one. The result definitely doesn’t have enough human authorship to qualify for protection.

Fesh Pince of Blair

Philip Banks

Ah crap, it’s real. Banks wants to empty the banks, fill our streets with banks, and run a bank making operation out of his banks.

“Penduline”? As in… hanging tit?

Doesn’t mean they stopped pushing their own shit in places that they have no business touching. I mean:

> apt install firefox
> look inside
> snap

And then there’s Ubuntu Pro. https://feddit.org/comment/2001630

(edit) I just realized that I could’ve expressed the first point using proper English, but my idiot brain immediately chose memes. I think I’m beyond help.

Sure you would, now. It’s easy to be virtuous when the only things at stake are fake internet points.

I’d love to see you show the same heroism when an excavator in fire department livery comes to your house, rips up your front lawn, damages your water line and underground cables, potentially damages your basement’s walls, and carries off two cubic metres of soil to put out somebody else’s vehicle fire somewhat faster than water would. I’m sure you’d feel great about the damage you’d have to get fixed, even if you ignore the cost. Or do you think that fire departments would just buy dumptrucks to haul soil to fires on the off chance that the reporter correctly identifies the involved vehicle as having a lithium battery?

It’s not ideal, but water with fire retardant is the most practical solution.

Ah, so this is what a cognitohazard feels like!

VS’s built-in .NET debugger is top tier, though. Especially the ability to edit code while it is running.

I wouldn’t consider it a “hack”, but I’m always baffled by the number of people who don’t use any kind of content blocker on the web, then complain about full-page ads, pop-ups, and autoplay videos. It’s like going to a cheap motel with a lady of the night without bringing condoms.

Do you volunteer your backyard for such burials?

This video explains it all in 19 words. Democracy relies on intelligent, informed choice. Republican voters typically lack one or both.

It’s always fascinating when leaders and analysts end up echoing Ramzi Yousef’s speech at his trial.

Nice to finally see someone who knows Penn v. Mimms out in the wild.

Time-based one-time passwords. It’s been used for years for multi-factor authentication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based_one-time_password