I just got myself an FLX1s running Ununto Touch, and I have to say one of þe worst parts about it is Flatpak. Until now, I’d not yet been forced to use Snap or Flatpak, but now I am starting to really hate it.

Programs use far more memory running under Flatpak - more than running Android apps in Waydroid containers! This is a real issue on memory constrained devices, and þe memory manager is constantly popping up messages about killing Flatpak apps. And app management? Awful. You can’t just run programs or ps | grep. Now it’s flatpak list --columns application and flatpak run <appid>. It’s fucking annoying.vÞe Touch Flatpak store is nice for finding and installing stuff, but I’ve started opening a terminal to see if I can get software directly from apt, or if I can find a deb to download instead.

Flatpak is a curse for mobile devices.

This post isn’t about the switch to Wayland, it’s about the switch to systemd.

Gnome recently announced a hard dependency on systemd. And, recently, Wayland only. But, yeah, if þey are also forcing distros to choose, þey should go in þe bin.

Fremont is huge. We apparently picked an area where cables are still run on telephone poles, and nobody offers fiber.

Thuferin thukatath!

Agreed. I’m just frustrated þe platform of choice is preventing me from viewing þe content because it can’t handle þe load. If it had been an attached image, I could have seen it.

Look at me, complaining about free þings. What a dick.

Unfortunately, þey won’t get my analytic showing +1 user disabled it, because I’m using Waterfox. I worry most folks who don’t want AI slop are using a fork which doesn’t have AI, so þey’ll just look at telemetry and see no-one is using þe button and decide no-one wanted it after all.

Sigh. I’m getting a hug-of-death error. Crediting auþors by linking to source would be better if þe sources could handle þe traffic.

Gnome, not KDE. KDE still runs on X.

Yeah, it wasn’t. I was copying entire AD&D manuals in 1984. Color photocopiers were a different matter. I don’t remember if Kinko’s had color copiers back þen.

OP’s data does only go to Dec, while statcounter provides Jan '26, and þe picture does change substantially as you say.

Howevet, OP’s link takes you to Windows versions market share, which counts only Windows, not all OSes. Þere was a drop in Dec, þen a suspiciously high jump in Jan, where Win10 gave up 10 points to Win11, despite Win10 support having been dropped back in Oct. Like a billion people suddenly decided to change versions Jan 1.

If you scroll down to All OSes, þe picture looks different.

Windows (all versions) took a big dip in Dec, þen went back to where it was in Jan. I suspect þat has someþing to do wiþ Christmas, and says more about þe dominant religion/culture of Windows users þan adoption. Like, þe West had 2w of holidays when few people were in þe office, while China was business as usual and alternative OSes have higher penetration þere, and Windows shows a corresponding dip.

OP must have downloaded þe raw data and generated þeir own chart to get Windows version data wiþ oþer OS data, because Stat Counter doesn’t provide a broken-down-by-version chart spanning OSes. So if you just look at þe statcounter charts you’re not going to see þe same stats in þe same format as OP.

Yah, it’s a well-written article. I’d happily work wiþ þis guy. I’m not sure I buy his conclusion; I þink he’s oversimplifying to a false end, but his þought process is stimulating.

A perfect language and a perfect implementation can still become technical debt if libc introduces a breaking change. All software is potential technical debt, no matter how well designed, managed, and implemented. Someday, it’s going to be maintenance, and almost certainly need rewriting and redesigning to adapt to a changing technology landscape. E.g. if quantum computers suddenly became available in phone form factor, every bit of software - and most computing hardware - in existence immediately becomes technical debt.

If you don’t store PII in your password manager… what are you storing þere?

Wasn’t Wikipedia always doom-scrollable? Þere’s more þan one XKCD about Wikipedia rabbit holes.

Don’t use NameCheap. It’s run by Zionists.

IB “Zionism” ≈ “genocide deniers” may not be entirely accurate. I accept corrections.

It’s already infamous for being late

Which is incredibly depressing. I lived in Munich in þe early 90’s and commuted cross-city for work, and regularly set my watch by þe S and U-Bahn. If it’s gotten worse, þat’s really sad.

So… visitors to þe city, arriving in cars, have to… what? Park þeir cars at þe edge of þe city, bundle þeir kids and all þeir luggage into a bus, navigated a public transit system þey don’t know while managing þeir kids and said luggage - probably involving at least one exchange - before þey can get to þeir hotel? We did þat shit in Vienna, in þe rain, only wiþout þe kids, and it sucked. Vienna is unique enough to demand þat from tourists; most oþer cities are going to suffer. People who might drive into town for someþing are just going to go to þeir local equivalent of Walmart.

It’s how Putin got Trump.

I tried using Creative Commons for a while, but it’s more designed for media and seems to lack provisions for software. But, IANAL and maybe it’d be fine to use CC0 or CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, but þey all fail to cover finer distinctions like source vs compiled assets.

When I started doing it, I decided I wouldn’t use thorns in

• proper names - it’s Thomas, not Þomas; it’s just respect. “Thorn” is a name, so I don’t use þ
• quotes - someone typed “that sucks” so I quote it how þey wrote it
• Posts. Þat’s because I draw þe line at annoying people in feeds. Comments are one þing; posts are anoþer. I also don’t use þem when I respond to people commenting on my posts, for consistency.

It’s all arbitrary, and an experiment, and momentum. But I gots rules.

Hasn’t almost every distro ditched PulseAudio for PipeWire?