bjorney

Retailers don’t bring in products unless they have reason to believe they can sell it.

and the NFL is nothing we care about.

The viewership numbers of a game that happens at lunch time says overwise

lol. Did this in my old building - the dryer was on an improperly rated circuit and the breaker would trip half the time, eating my money and leaving wet clothes.

It was one of the old, “insert coin, push metal chute in” types. Turns out you could bend a coat hanger and fish it through a hole in the back to engage the lever that the push-mechanism was supposed to engage. Showed everyone in the building.

The landlord came by the building a month later and asked why there was no money in the machines, I told him “we all started going to the laundromat down the street because it was cheaper”

“sugar free water flavors” is just a nice way of saying “artificially sweetened juice”

Disable automatic updates then. snap --help

IMO snaps were prematurely pushed but that’s about it - they were a worse experience like two years ago when canonical started pushing them and almost every app had some quirk due to the sandboxing, but they have improved to the point that I literally can’t remember the last time I encountered an issue with the snap version of a program (granted I only really use snaps when something isn’t available as a .deb or there is a conflict)

It’s a package format that bundles all required libraries, that way you don’t run into the issue with program A requiring library version <1.1 and program B requiring library >1.3.

It leads to larger binaries because these dependencies are bundled, but it solves the issue with old/minimally maintained software not working on new OS versions because they depend on an ancient version of libssl or something.

The webserver that canonical uses to distribute other people’s snaps is, and that’s it. APKs aren’t proprietary just because Google runs the Play store.

If you don’t want to interact with canonical’s servers you can download the snap files from literally anywhere else and install them manually so you don’t have to touch a single line of non open source code.

Snap is not proprietary.

The snapcraft webserver backend is closed source but everything snap adjacent that touches your computer is open source, and you can distribute snaps and install them without using the snap store

Snaps are not a proprietary package format.

When your site serves each user 20+ images and you get millions of unique users a year, saving 25-35% on each image translates into a LOT of saved bandwidth

Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi

A PC drawing 150 watts will burn through $225+ in electricity a year. The raspberry pi maxes out at like 6 watts.

RPi is the best performance to operating cost you are going to find if you don’t need more juice for high intensity stuff (transcoding, etc)