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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 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,…

Béranger on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Manus doesn’t have a free tier. And it’s more expensive than anything else. They’re probably targeting business users, who might…” Apr 27, 20:34
HAL on AI: Hallucinations, agents, CO2, buttholes, books, and old news: “Perplexity, I can’t get used to it. I have it on my smartphone, but I rarely use it. It may…” Apr 27, 20:17
HAL on This is how stupid Microsoft is: “Oh, I hadn’t seen that. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know exactly, but yes, this empty folder idea seems pretty…” Apr 27, 18:06
Béranger on King Trump 2.0’s first batch of Executive Orders: a mixed bag: “Trump did so many unbelievable things lately that I stopped mentioning them. BTW, fancy a “Trump 2028” hat? It’s only…” Apr 26, 11:29
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I’m so freaking done with this Trump crap that I physically cringed at writing more posts on his China trade…” Apr 26, 02:05
Béranger on Windows IoT 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021: Would you have expected me to write about it?: “I just learned that on these IoT editions, to use WSL2, one has to manually enable Hyper-V in a PowerShell…” Apr 25, 21:56
gicu on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “Problema 1 e ca din zecile (sutele?) de contestatii una a fost aprobata. Problema 2 este ca in restul situatiilor…” Apr 25, 17:34
Béranger on Justiția pulii și pula justiției: “UPDATE: Iată că se poate! La ora la care scriu, nu am găsit la repezeală minuta, dar toată presa raportează…” Apr 25, 16:15
Sensible kek on Să ne înspăimântăm alături de Armand Goșu: “Să-l jupuim și să-l facem drapel!” Apr 21, 07:10
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “I forgot to clarify the 245% duty mentioned by Trump here: China faces up to a 245% tariff on imports…” Apr 18, 09:08
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Nu există bolșevism. Nu există salvare.” Apr 16, 05:30
Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Doar un bolșevic bătrân ca tine poate crede că o să ne salveze chinezii și de oligarhii ruși și de…” Apr 16, 02:14
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Du-te pe Short Waves. E plin de Radio Beijing în diverse limbi: engleză, spaniolă, italiană, chiar și elenă.” Apr 15, 19:49
Sensible kek on 📻 Radio Streams: “Mii de streamuri și totuși nu prind Europa Liberă.” Apr 15, 19:47
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Tiny note: the exemption for electronic devices (including smartphones, computers, and other components) does not completely cancel, as thought initially,…” Apr 14, 22:49
Béranger on The suicide of the car industry: “Observer editorial for April 6, 2025: The Observer view on SUVs: they are too dangerous and too big, their drivers…” Apr 13, 23:23
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Confusing updates regarding the UK-China relations. ● SCMP: China seeks British backing to defend international trade as Trump tariff war…” Apr 13, 22:58
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Corrections and updates to M Radio (France), now with more streams.” Apr 13, 22:29
Béranger on I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”: “I’m not impressed, mais voici 8 companii promițătoare care dezvoltă soluții AI în Europa.” Apr 13, 12:44
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Updates as comments. ● Smartphones and computers, including those coming from China, are exempt from the new tariffs imposed by…” Apr 12, 22:48
Béranger on I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”: “La folie des grandeurs IMHO: Siemens Xcelerator Marketplace. I don’t believe in shit. So far, it looks like a set…” Apr 12, 20:55
Jeo on I’ll call it “Techno-Dark-Mafia”: “Stii povestea aia cu super-computerul care, intrebat fiind daca exista Dumnezeu, il trazneste pe creatorul lui si raspunde “acum exista”.…” Apr 12, 20:34
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Newsweek vs. China, sort of.” Apr 12, 12:31
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Wherever you look, you can see that China has options.” Apr 11, 16:34
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “The show must go on!” Apr 11, 11:35
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “The White House confirms that the 125% tariff on Chinese goods doesn’t include the previous 20% fentanyl-related tariff, so the…” Apr 10, 17:32
Béranger on Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump: “Added some Follow-ups, after updates to It’s now 125%!” Apr 10, 12:00
zugu on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “I was referring to the media, not to you.” Apr 9, 17:58
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths, originally a math teacher from Australia but now living in the UK, 🎞️Explaining the Trump…” Apr 9, 12:00
Béranger on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “Hi, Captain Obvious! Of course, the idea is that every single country on the planet should buy much more from…” Apr 8, 11:35
zugu on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “I like how everyone is freaking out about tariffs, and fail to see the forest for the trees. The tariffs…” Apr 8, 11:30
Sensible kek on Ursula Ronald McDonald: Europe is ready to negotiate with the US: “Am descoperit ceva semne de viață inteligentă la Contributors. Agentul Krasnov nu e pomenit, dar analiza se limitează la Europa:…” Apr 8, 07:41
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Dumbo Jumbo, on Truth Social: Yesterday, China issued Retaliatory Tariffs of 34%, on top of their already record setting Tariffs,…” Apr 7, 21:47
Béranger on Nerușinarea farmaciștilor nu are limite (și nici cea a autorităților): “To add to the list: there are antihistamines that no longer exist, so to speak. Hismanal = astemizole, discontinued in…” Apr 7, 18:38
Béranger on Me no know much, but running LLMs locally was disappointing: “I didn’t try any Llama models locally, but it’s worth noting that Llama 4 Scout 17B and Llama 4 Maverick…” Apr 7, 15:52
Béranger on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “Grok’s app for Android started rolling out in Europe on Monday, April 7. Some people have even got it one…” Apr 7, 13:20
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Trump the racketeer: “We put a big tariff on Europe. They are coming to the table; they want to talk,…” Apr 7, 11:37
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Some leaders seem to have failed to understand that Trump’s new “reciprocal” tariffs are not because of other countries’ tariffs,…” Apr 7, 00:44
Béranger on The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose): “VxKex is a set of API extensions for Windows 7 that allow some Windows 8, 8.1 and 10-exclusive applications to…” Apr 5, 12:00
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Oh. The Office of the United States Trade Representative has published “the formula” for the Reciprocal Tariff Calculations, and they…” Apr 5, 11:41
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “Some more insights. ● The Economist: Ruination Day: President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc: Almost everything Mr Trump…” Apr 4, 21:27
Béranger on Kindergarten dropout Donald “Tariffs” Drumpf ejaculated complete nonsense: “I’ve added some insights on Trump’s tariffs.” Apr 3, 22:58
Béranger on Le Chat Mistral: Se iau 2-3 mazări mari, se taie în felii subțiri…: “Un alt exemplu despre cum Claude poate ajuta în privința limbii engleze (și alți boți pot!): Me: “ingredients of some…” Apr 3, 22:09
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “The current track info works again for the stations where the info is present. I removed Phoenix Country Radio (UK).” Apr 3, 20:41
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Something is broken in my radio player: the “currently playing” info isn’t shown anymore for any stream! I need to…” Apr 3, 19:39
Béranger on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: ““Ubuntu MATE is collective work made up of many people over the years.” Many of the 46 “Contributors & Special…” Apr 2, 20:59
HAL on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: “Either way, Ubuntu MATE IS Ubuntu. Whatever the desktop, the flavor, it is always Ubuntu. Even so, someone competent enough…” Apr 2, 20:46
Béranger on The Amazon Kindle and stupid people: a storm in a teacup: “Oh, now I get why people think that this move from Amazon would prevent them from removing the DRM, despite…” Apr 2, 19:54
Béranger on Peekaboo: Top 8 chatbots ➕ Top 10 advanced ways to use LLMs: “I’ve been offered Gemini 2.5 Pro for free! It seems smarter than 2.0 Flash, as it was to be expected.” Apr 1, 19:18
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “Because CroonerRadio.fr is down, but the streams are fine, I replaced the thumbnails with versions that are stored elsewhere. If…” Apr 1, 17:11
Béranger on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: “On the active developers side, Linux Lite has exactly one developer. I know nothing about EndeavourOS (a couple of developers?),…” Apr 1, 15:44
Tito on The dead and the reborn BSDs — now updated + Chimera Linux!: “I am genuinely curious how many active developers and actual users (not the distro-hoppers, mind you) distros like Linux Lite,…” Apr 1, 15:04
RADU IONUT DIACONU on Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți: “Mamă, praf am fost, lipsă ochelari. Îmi cer scuze de erori, nu au fost voite. Vizavi de albaneză, iliră, dalmată……” Apr 1, 06:30
B. Stack on When a WP plugin update screws it: “I understand the frustration! Trying to use broken tools just distracts you from using the tools to talk about your…” Mar 31, 19:46
RADU IONUT DIACONU on Impostura cu ștaif la românii franțuziți: “Buna ziua, Alexandru Nicolae se numește. Omul mi se pare decent. L-am văzut în două podcasturi răspunzând dezarmant de simplu…” Mar 31, 14:04
Alberto on Dolphin on non-KDE distros with a dark theme: the horror: “Thanks, great analysis. I fully agree with the subtitle “the horror”: trying to understand how Dolphin’s theming engine interacts with…” Mar 30, 02:06
Béranger on Nu am cu cine să votez! Voi aveți?: “România e țara pulelor belite. La 35 de ani de la Revoluție (sau Loviluție), o comisie din cadrul Secretariatului de…” Mar 28, 18:26
Béranger on 📻 Radio Streams: “I added a note regarding Majestic Jukebox Radio (UK).” Mar 28, 17:42
Béranger on Democrația ucisă „în numele legii”: “Ah, Franța experimentează modelul României, deși Marine Le Pen chiar a fost condamnată penal, numai că decizia nu e definitivă.…” Mar 28, 15:24
Béranger on Not everyone is dumb regarding AI. But many are.: “Some people hate AI for all the wrong reasons. Here: Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks…” Mar 28, 00:17