total flatpak user death

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@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises @coolbean appimages couldve been an aight format if it wasnt for the dude being a nazi asshole

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@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises @coolbean the command line usage thing i used to agree on but lowk its a stupid point and even now i dont rlly care that much . do i prefer when smth is packaged natively ? sure !!! but flatpak itself isnt bad either . its a container its literally just a chroot to run your application

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@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises @coolbean flatpak not being actively developed anymore isnt the bad thing u think it is . flatpak is a glorified wrapper around bwrap . which itself is barely anything . all the actual functionality is in the kernel

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@fiore @apophis they couldve at least made a good cli, man

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@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises @coolbean no? social forces hold people there. flathub is not a social website in any way , and idont see how it could even become that

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises ill give u that sure

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@fiore @apophis github really isnt either

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@fiore @apophis in fact its the most antisocial website ever where else would the concept of a stale bot have even gotten started

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@apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises @coolbean "ill take no security over some security"

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises false, github to devs is a very social place , to discover issues to fix , and network. the industry uses github as a social network

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@fiore @apophis then what the fuck is linkedin

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises and like github is HOLDING YOUR CODE HOSTAGE pretty much . flathub isnt that , u can literally just publish the package yourself if u rlly want

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises > look up who owns both

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises linked in is for managers , github is for devs. both are corpo culture. both are important networking tools to thosr people

i am all for detaching actual tech culture from its corpo counterpart , but thats not the case today , and as such github has a social hold on devs . even tho its slipping , and many many many are moving elsewhere

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@fiore @apophis it doesnt thoooo u can literally just upload it to a different host and stop comitting to github

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises see the multiple free software projects doing Just That lately

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises the only thing keeping foss there is free ci nowadays . which , fair enough

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@fiore @apophis why didnt they do it sooner

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises because who cares man this is not a dangerous thing like discord asking for your id is . this is somewhere to dump your code to be forgotten about . ppl say they usr github , sure ill use github. then afterwards if u dont want your code to be fed to copilot , you leave. thats the story

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@coolbean @apophis@kill-corporations.enterprises idk man u can not like flathub. fair enough

u can even not like flatpak .

but like . this isnt something where u have no power , its not like discord or twitter where in order to be able to stop using them u need to either convince people to stop using it , or rip yourself from your social ccircle

dont wanna use flatpak ? package the thing . i promise you everyone , even flatpak users , that uses the same distro as you will thank you

and sure , if flatpak goes evil they might uhh ? idk ? require an account to download the packages . sure lets say they do. u still have the code to the thing ? u can literally build the flatpak on your compooper its piss easy

this is actually a nothingburger ngl