There are many reasons why you don’t want to do this. Flatpaks dont touch PATH, the sandboxing makes it difficult, and flathub doesn’t distribute CLI programs, being the main ones. So yes, it is technically possible, but so cumbersome as to be unfeasible. Snap on the other hand does implement a pretty frictionless method for running CLI snaps.

Again, you guys are making me defend snap, I’m not even an Ubuntu user. However, when you blindly state things that are incorrect, you denigrate your own position. This whole snaps are slavery echo chamber is extremely tedious. Its no different than people just parroting political opinions they saw on instagram. Use the best tool for the job. If that’s Ubuntu, great.

Roads are also a tool for drunk drivers.

See how silly that sounds?

At some point we’re going to want to ditch Google’s services entirely. This is simply a trust/societal problem, not an engineering one. Most proprietary apps rely on Google’s app attestation. The main hurdle I see for an Android fork becoming mainstream without Google is establishing a 3rd party root of trust, like how SSL already works. It is actively against Google’s interest to allow this to happen, so they will push as much closing of their OS as they can without “boiling the frog” so to speak.

Snaps run CLI programs. As a server operator, snaps are at times genuinely useful. This sub betrays itself as being mostly hobbyists by not understanding that flatpaks only work for GUI apps.

that is certainly a downside.

This is an objectively false statement. There are at least one scenario I can think of where Snap is better than flatpak.

Edit: You guys really don’t know what objectively better means huh.

Ubuntu is fine, people’s objection to it is largely ideological. For a band new user you probably wouldn’t notice. Ubuntu also has a more modern desktop than Mint, and a much larger user-base and therefore much more guides and support, though Mint is based on Ubuntu so it’s probably not that different.

The big thing with Ubuntu is that you are sort of at the behest of whatever Canonical want. They have a track record of pushing their own way of doing things and not really giving a damn whether or not users like it. The big one is Snap, their attempt at a universal app packaging pipeline which uses a proprietary backend. Snap does have some benefits over flatpak from an engineering standpoint, but many dislike them. If you feel ideologically opposed to Snap, just use Debian, it’s easy enough to install these days. It is also worth noting that Snap can be removed from a fresh install pretty easily.

go off king

Hopefully we can get a calendar app!!

Cheers to the GOS team, doing the lord’s work truly.

Abolish Facebook

All of these morons are the same dumb assholes who 3 weeks ago wanted to rice their Arch installs to be as minimal as possible. Now they’re re rolling a vibe coded reskin for babies. These are some of the dumbest people alive

Funding for what? Some dotfiles? I literally don’t understand why forking Arch would require a third of a million dollars.

Changing PW managers is dead simple. Takes like 5 minutes. There are a handful of great OSS options.

I’m a little out of the loop I guess. Why do all these corpos care about this dork’s Arch reskin?

Some of the dumbest people I know are 25

This is 100% percent written by an LLM.

Going back to school at 30 was the best decision i ever made ngl

Invidious likely isn’t profiling you. If it worries you that much, you can stand up your own instance. It seems like a fun project.

That said, you absolutely don’t need to justify your desire for privacy here. I totally understand you. I’ve kind of landed on a “best effort” approach where I just try not to break shit but use as much privacy focuses stuff I can and check if my browser has a randomized fingerprint on EFF’s coveryourtracks.eff.org/, which you should visit. I use Helium and a small number of addons and that’s it.

Here’s the bottom line. You’re not going to be able to disappear on the internet without a massive and cumbersome effort which is not worth it relative to what I am gathering about your threat model. The very first thing you should do when considering privacy is 1. What you want to keep private and 2. Who you are trying to keep it private from. At the end of the day, you sound like me. I want to keep my browsing history and as much of my personal information as private as possible from data brokers, advertisers and my ISP. For that you need a layered approach. 1, VPN with no logs like mullvad. 2, Encrypted or at the very least recursive DNS resolver. 3, A somewhat randomized browser fingerprint. The last one is tricky because it’s actually just impossible. You can use stock librewolf to share your fingerprint with other users but imo that doesn’t work for my use case, as there are some pretty radical changes to the way I would have to use the internet, so I use Helium, which uses fingerprint farbling, and call it a day.

In the end, that works for me. It’s important to remember privacy is a spectrum. There is no such thing as total anonymity, everything you do to make yourself more private is productive and helpful. It’s about assessing your threat model and taking the correct steps, not trying to become a ghost, because that will drive you nuts and your internet browsing experience will be so degraded you might as well not even use it in the first place.

Legitimately soooooo funny lmao hes such a fucking catty removed all he wants is his ballroom 💅

I started both around the same time. I switched careers from being a chef at a pretty high level. Started getting into systems and got engrossed in it. So the selfhosting was just an aspect of my education.