• qaz@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Fun fact: there used to be an Authy flatpak that just installed the snap inside

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      55 minutes ago

      Oh, what the fuck!?

      TBH I wouldn’t mind it that much. The whole point of flatpak is that the developer can do whatever demented satanic rituals they want inside of the sandbox, and it won’t contaminate the rest of the system.

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      Yep. I’m selfhosting it now. Works great but selfhosting isn’t straightforward yet, still the best Authy/Google/Microsoft Authenticator drop in replacement with sync.

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    Unpopular opinion: snap is not so bad and genuinely useful for many things

    I would rather have a snap than building from source or use some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

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      I would rather have a snap than building from source or use some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

      I agree, but that sounds like false dichotomy to me because snap competes with flatpak.

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      some tar.gz archive with a sketchy install script

      I just can’t… like maybe I’m too old and that’s why I still can’t wrap my head around how we went from “./configure && make & make install scripts are almost the de facto way to install software in linux” to “a sketchy install script”. We’re living interesting times at Linux

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        Last time I ran a corporate-made installer, it caused massive graphical glitches and lock-ups after waking from sleep. It basically gave my system computer-AIDS.

        That’s why I never run scripts which are too long for me to easily understand outside a sandbox. Official distro repositories and Flatpaks are the only sources I have some level of trust in.

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      I’d rather be able to use my web browser uninterrupted without it being updated while using it and be forced to restart it.