Bonfire social seems cool as fuck, but I wish I understood exactly what it is a little better-

Am I understanding right that its more fediverse building tools for folks who run instances? Or is it a platform like lemmy, mastodon, piefed? Both? Something else entirely?

It feels hard to pin down what it actually is 😅

Such an important morale victory 🥹

Love seeing more novel, non-linux foss stuff, thanks for sharing! ☺️

I don’t use it but axio has been rock solid in my experience.

I like gramophone but it’s had some bugs, where auxio just has just done anything I’ve needed without issue when I was trying it out

I’m just fussy about user interfaces, and while axio is a quite nice material 3 ui, gramophone is more beautiful to me

It is my understanding that the back-end marketplace for snap is not open, and that snap as a packaging ecosystem is permanently tied to Canonical (company behind Ubuntu) exclusively.

No one else can build a snap repository or source (not sure what the best language would be but I’m trying not to word things ambiguously).

From Wikipedia:

Others have objected to the closed-source nature of the Snap Store. Clément Lefèbvre (Linux Mint founder and project leader[75][76]) has written that Snap is biased and has a conflict of interest. The reasons he cited include it being governed by Canonical and locked to their store, and also that Snap works better on Ubuntu than on other distributions.

Which is why people are unhappy with snap. And why I say that although I wish fedora didn’t set up their own flatpak repo and provide then alongside flathub, to me its a requirement that it be possible to do that. Because then if the people leading the project start making user hostile choices, you have recourse. Same as with any free license, open source project- you can just take what was already built and the community can rally around moving efforts over to the version that isn’t being user hostile.

Snap doesn’t have that. If they became successful, canonical would have enormous power over the linux ecosystem and if they chose not to treat users with respect, they would already have market capture. The more successful they were to become, the more likely things depend on them. Like important packages only being published as snaps. And the more likely that things have been built around snaps specifically, the bigger of a liability it is for linux as a whole. A liability controlled by a for-profit company, with for-profit motives.

People have similar frustrations with systemd as more projects build hard dependencies on it, but at least those are still totally open projects

Sorry to the long wall of text but I hope its at least helpful 😅

Edited to add the section from Wikipedia

That would be debian… A larger project with more resources. It feels pretty obvious why they wouldn’t include it 😅

This is a pretty frustrating interview to me. He doesn’t really seem to engage at all with the fact that building a core system component in a way that isn’t fully open completely looses all of the resiliency to enshittification or conflict of interest between corporation and users that makes linux a good thing in the first place.

I don’t personally really like that fedora chooses to repackage and serve their own versions of flatpaks. But that its possible is mandatory, because otherwise if flatpaks are successful and they end up making choices that are user hostile, there is no escape hatch.

Its a completely unnecessary choice, and is to me, entirely disqualifying. If snaps were to become successful it would be a bad thing for this ecosystem that I care about.

I also find it frankly bewildering that he talks about everything being their own software stack as a flex, when this whole space is built on collaboration building together, and then goes on to describe it as vertical integration, a form of anticompetitive behavior that countries make laws aimed at preventing. Vertical integration is not a good thing.

Its fine if your stack is all yours, but thinking vertical integration is a flex feels really slimy and out of touch to me

I feel like the obvious picks from the linux crowd would be a thinkpad or framework. I’m sure there are other great options though

I wanna give him a smooch on the cheek

Hmmm

I’m not sure why its not working for me then

That iron fox link doesn’t seem to work

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Uhhh… Once again, weirdest timeline 😅

Would it be okay if I crosspost this around to some of the comms like

!digitalminimalism@lemmy.ml
!dumbphones@lemmy.world
!nosurf@lemmy.ca
or !singlepurpose@lemmy.world (single purpose devices)

I feel like folks on those comms would appreciate this meme and they really don’t get much traffic ☺️ (or you can cross-post if you’d like, I just try to support smaller comms I like when I see stuff that might be appreciated by them :)

I have bad news for you 😅

Ah. Given what I’ve seen from them I guess that’s not especially surprising. I figured I’d be encouraging since this post was more what I enjoy seeing here after commenting negatively on a previous one

I think if I remember right it was to use portals to grant file access to the themes folder and then set flags or variables or something to force using the theme you wanted

If you’re interested in experimenting with that route I believe I also saw details for that method in various online tutorials for theming flatpacks

Platform in general really doesn’t bother me the same way that technology platform does. In a historical sense like you’re talking about that would mean it was built on shared structure, which is a good way to build a reliable car, since there’ll be more chance to have worked out the kinks in shared parts vs new bespoke ones. In this context it’s just a rebadge for marketing

Where, to me, technology platform communicates more that the car is a vehicle (hah) for various tech widgets and gizmos that aren’t in line with it just being a car, and that that’s the real value add that lets them charge super high prices (IMO, without delivering much more actual value to the user). Perhaps I’m being overly harsh and it’s at least in part just driven (hah) by it being a ev where there are tons of different technological systems, computerized and otherwise

But that’s how I read it 🤷‍♂️. But yeah I’m not surprised a CEO would talk about it that way, that’s where the industry has been for quite some time now, and it shows little sign of changing aside from novel projects like the Slate truck (which aside from getting from daddy bezos, looks pretty cool!)

Love to see OC, this looks delicious Lunatique ☺️☺️

What all is in it?

Thanks! Personally I love them best fresh for a bit of crunch and some bright fresh flavor contrast. Jalapeno worked a little better in that way, but I’m cutting down on spicy stuff sadly

I can see how roasted or grilled would be delicious Though! ☺️

Thanks for this added context, that’s really helpful to know :)