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Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend

February 3, 2026 Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend2026-02-05T22:48:05+01:00 1 Comment Acer, AI, apocalypse, AppImages, apps, FreeBSD, Lenovo, Linux, longread, openSUSE, Ubuntu, XFCE, Xubuntu

There are hundreds and hundreds of titles that I notice every week; some of them led me to reading the respective articles, but very few of them trigger a post…

AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples)

October 31, 2024 AppImages: the worst choice in “portability” (with examples)2024-11-01T15:05:02+01:00 1 Comment AppImages, Freezer, Linux, Nulloy, Ubuntu

I occasionally discussed the modern alternatives to using packages, meaning AppImages, Flatpaks and snaps. Politics and hatred aside, both Flatpaks and snaps are usable. AppImages, on the other hand, are…

Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run

June 4, 2021 Why Linux on the Desktop is Irrelevant in the Long Run2021-06-30T15:41:03+01:00 12 Comments apocalypse, AppImages, ClearLinux, Cloud, containers, DaaS, edge computing, emulators, fedora, Flatpaks, GeForceNOW, GoboLinux, Guix, Linux, MoccacinoOS, NixOS, openSUSE, PaaS, packages, Red Hat, SaaS, sandboxing, silverblue, snaps, Ubuntu, virtualization

10-15 years ago, there were many more Linux distros, and a lot of enthusiasm around Linux. Vibrant communities, positive vibes, unlike today. And most people were still dual-booting with Windows,…

HAL on On browser wars and stupid people: “Strangely, MX has ungoogled-chromium in its repositories. https://mxrepo.com/MX25packages.html Well, it’s the penultimate version, not the very latest, but .109-1 instead…” Feb 5, 22:41
Béranger on On browser wars and stupid people: “Google or no Google, I don’t care. They can suck my dick. I can even use Edge: microsoft-edge-stable_144.0.3719.104-1_amd64.deb (or whichever…” Feb 5, 14:42
HAL on On browser wars and stupid people: “I need both Firefox and a Chromium-based second browser. https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium 😉” Feb 5, 14:39
Dino on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “To each their own, I suppose! 😉” Feb 5, 12:49
Béranger on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “I hope you’re not talking about ZX Spectrum or Amstrad CPC, because I preferred MS-DOS games.” Feb 5, 11:34
Dino on Microsoft + snaps: music to my ears!: “Since I’ve also been using my own brains since the 1970s, I remember the 80s computer games and how they…” Feb 5, 10:24
Béranger on Bad news in Ubuntu land, Nemo was retarded, and more: “Speaking of the future of Ubuntu MATE and of its non-qualification as LTS for 26.04, there is this thread on…” Feb 5, 00:57
Béranger on Readings, musings, and experiments over the weekend: “A small update on M.2 2242 SSD and RAM speed, including estimations on running a 7B LLM locally.” Feb 4, 20:53
Béranger on The magic of Fedora Linux: “BONUS: Linux Lite 7.8 with Yaru icons:” Feb 4, 12:23
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added SWR 4 BaWü; Smooth Jazz CD 101.9 New York, WCLK Jazz 91.9 Atlanta, and WCLK HD2 Mainstream/Classic Jazz; and…” Feb 3, 21:14
Gnomesucks on The magic of Fedora Linux: “https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yaru-gtk-theme Who would have guessed that Arch has more normalcy than Fedora.” Feb 3, 17:39
Béranger on The magic of Fedora Linux: “I tried installing the same yaru-theme in the live session of the Fedora 43 XFCE spin. The results were similar:…” Feb 3, 00:49
Béranger on Flopzilla is retarded: “I risk becoming Chinese if I keep using Kimi!” Feb 2, 20:53
nobody on Flopzilla is retarded: “Careful! You risk becoming retarded using too much AI 😉” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either: “I’m occasionally wrong, and I made a correction: sometimes, Ubuntu still maintains a package that was abandoned by Debian!” Feb 2, 20:51
Béranger on Language Learning Apps, Revisited: 34 Products + Bonus Links: “I mentioned Katie Harris here, Stefano Chiaromonte in another post, and the channel “Joy of Languages. Italian” in another comment.…” Feb 2, 16:10
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “While testing (in a live session) if the build of xebian-trixie-amd64.hybrid.iso from Jan. 26 is still not broken (it’s not)…” Jan 31, 21:54
Béranger on Wanderings around Debian: “While Linux Lite 7.8 Final has been released and it seems to bear quite some changes over Linux Lite 7.8-rc1…” Jan 31, 20:50
Béranger on He’s not right, but he’s not exactly wrong, either: “A note on the marvelous nature of snaps, from Joey Sneddon’s Free Up Disk Space by Removing Old Snap Versions:…” Jan 31, 13:55
Kai on The magic of Fedora Linux: “Recent Fedora releases are retarded. They broke LXQt spin for no reason, replacing X.org with Wayland, not caring about the…” Jan 31, 07:02
David on The magic of Fedora Linux: “You got gnomed 🙂” Jan 31, 06:03
HAL on The magic of Fedora Linux: “What? But that’s completely crazy! They’re nuts!” Jan 31, 02:31
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Unfortunately, I never used GoodSync, so I can’t have an opinion about it.” Jan 28, 18:03
Rosen Kolev on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Beyond Compare is indeed a great tool. Thank you for sharing how you use it! Those details will definitely help…” Jan 28, 17:34
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “You are completely retarded. I want COMPLETE CONTROL WITH MY OWN BRAIN’S SUPERVISION over my backups of: – e-books -…” Jan 28, 00:17
Eugen on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “manual backups? geez. how about rclone or rsync plus a bash script plus cron plus a 5$ vps?” Jan 28, 00:14
ng6333 on I never thought I’ll prefer ONLYOFFICE: “It makes sense. LO/OO internal format (ODF) is not OOXML. The other office suites native format is closer to MSoft…” Jan 27, 13:16
Béranger on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “Indeed, its 3 predefined sync modes, “Two-way,” “Mirror to right,” and “Update right,” should cover everything. Obviously, actions can be…” Jan 27, 10:13
xwa on Nothing compares to Beyond Compare for… backups: “How about FreeFileSync? May not have such detailed settings, but it should be able to do all those mirror/update/left/right scenarios…” Jan 27, 09:49
Béranger on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “Nope.” Jan 24, 20:39
ng6333 on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “I tried a method that can restore some old apps or libraries; Add previous release(s) to apt sources: – unstable…” Jan 24, 04:28
xwa on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “I wonder who is going to use GNOME anymore… Do you think you are safe if you migrated to /…” Jan 23, 18:16
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Trump über alles! After the fabulous address by Mark Carney, Prime Minister of Canada (here, here, here, or here; official…” Jan 23, 11:33
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Not an official link: Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace.” Jan 22, 16:51
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a special address in Davos. His ~20+ minute speech (in English) can be watched here (with…” Jan 22, 12:14
Béranger on The Braver and Braver New World: “Trump’s speech at WEF 2026 in Davos is psychiatric material. Trump confused Greenland with Iceland several times, but he appeared…” Jan 21, 19:06
GnomeSucks on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “Ah, the good old Gnome lunatics are at it again… Doesn’t surprise me when you look at the bullshit they…” Jan 21, 13:34
Béranger on Nu, Nicușor Dan nu a rezolvat problema de clasa a patra! Actualizare: ba da!: “Pentru problema din 1988 și rezolvarea acesteia din 2020, rediscutată în 2026, vezi aici.” Jan 20, 22:49
Christian on The “joys” of systemd in Fedora XFCE: “January 2026 and the bug is still there. Thanks you for writing this! Was driving me nuts.” Jan 19, 20:13
Ashtone on 📖 In the unlikely event you installed Lubuntu 25.10…: “Thank you.” Jan 16, 14:23
B. Stack on Debian has its retards too: they plan to kill GTK2!: “Thanks for the notice! Somehow, this is the first I’ve heard of it. I use Devuan Ceres (unstable, just like…” Jan 16, 02:03
Béranger on The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty: “I was aware of much of this. But the idea was that, as a non-insured person, the fees are absurd.…” Jan 15, 14:04
edel on The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty: “Forget the abominable costs, what I’d found most horrendous in American Health Plans is the impossibility to choose adequately, specially…” Jan 15, 13:59
edel on I don’t believe in Iran’s future: “Nice article! Just one thing to add; Israel would never tolerate any country to economically succeed in the area, unfriendly…” Jan 15, 12:31
edel on Which one comes first, Greenland or Iran?: “Trump has within reach Greenland, that will give him the legacy he is so desperately to obtain, and Europe would…” Jan 15, 12:13
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “Three small updates: one regarding Xebian, another one regarding MX, and a third one regarding the customization of XFCE in…” Jan 15, 00:28
Béranger on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “Euria was not in my short list. It’s basically Qwen.” Jan 14, 19:23
HAL on AI and Linux: comments and resolutions for 2026: “some are not worthwhile (Lumo) You forgot “the great” Euria from the equally “great” Infomaniak 😉 Worse than Lumo, better?” Jan 14, 19:20
Béranger on Happy Trump’s Kampf: “En qué estado está la industria petrolera venezolana y por qué recuperarla costará muchos millones: “Nunca pude imaginar que a…” Jan 13, 16:07
edel on We shouldn’t have forgotten Guantánamo: “Worse by number, is the number of “jihadists” arrested and convicted by online entrapment that in real life they would…” Jan 12, 19:57
Béranger on Fun and pain with a teardown—analogic radios are defunct: “UPDATE: A 10th chapter adds comments from Mistral on the ICs highlighted in this post, on old-style radio ICs, on…” Jan 11, 20:12
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added Romantic FM (at the end).” Jan 11, 19:16
Béranger on „Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian: “Service door of Crans-Montana bar where 40 died in fire was locked from inside, owner says: The French owner of…” Jan 11, 15:55
Béranger on Operation ‘Emperor of the World’: “FT: Nordics reject Trump’s claim of Chinese and Russian ships around Greenland: Nordic diplomats rejected US President Donald Trump’s claims…” Jan 11, 15:45
HMS on Stephan Pastis on a difference between AmE and BrE: “I thought the joke was that nobody cares about the UK anymore. I respect the history, but it’s a play…” Jan 10, 19:56
Béranger on Gramatica geto-dacă e cea mai superioară, etc. (cu completări): “Kiev sau Kyiv? La Radio Moldova, Dan Alexe înșiră o serie de argumente: O samă de cuvinte | Englezirea excesivă:…” Jan 10, 11:09
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Added JazzRadio Berlin in the 10th position, between Europa Radio Jazz and TSF Jazz.” Jan 10, 03:52
HAL on Dedoimedo honored me!: “Oh 😀👍👏” Jan 10, 03:42
Béranger on „Crasse Montana”: spulberarea mitului elvețian: “Elemente de tâmpenie umană extrase din 68 de secunde. Reconstituirea tragediei din Elveția: ❶ După ce spuma a luat foc,…” Jan 10, 02:35
Johannes rexx on As a New Year’s gift, Facebook decided I don’t exist: “When I told my brother that the three billion facebook users are all stupid idiots he refuted that so many…” Jan 10, 00:48