Regrets aplenty after some of the things I’ve drank, but none of them are about Debian.

The red means it’s not cooked all the way. Better be safe…

I had to close my bank account to cancel mine. I moved and didn’t want to head all the way back to go in person to cancel. They wouldn’t accept a cancel request online or over the phone. Why is it always gym memberships that want to be next to impossible to cancel?

Proud GitLab self-hoster here (for private projects). I’d love for someone to beat GitHub. The hard part is going to be replacing the discoverability and the network effect. I find GitLab to be a superior product, technically, but it doesn’t matter much in the face of GitHub’s momentum as the incumbent 800 lb gorilla.

He’ll be warm for the rest of his life, and won’t need any more help, sounds like a win/win to me!

I got talked into bankruptcy (by a bankruptcy lawyer, surprise surprise). It cleared $12k of credit cards and bank fees but not the then-$50k of student loans and the spending habits that were the real problem. Now I learned my lesson. No credit cards. Save up and pay. Have an emergency fund that can cover your expenses for months and months in the event you lose your job, or your most expensive unplanned repair. That’s the real life saver.

Even worse is taking over the back button / back gesture to redirect you to “more to read before you go”

Good luck getting all the developers to rewrite their apps. The only reason you had any apps was because it was based on Android so it was little to no effort to port. Going plain ol’ embedded Linux is basically the death knell of your developer story. Source: been there, had no third party apps, switched to Android

So, the earth then?

I just want a picture of a goddang hotdog

When you decide

fury get mad sometimes

Dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff’ll kill you.

It’s lighter than a VM but a bit heavier than aiming to run an application natively (and all the dependency & configuration hell that entails).

Basically a convenient way to package and run applications with all their dependencies, without regard for what libraries & configurations exist in the host OS and other containers.

If your application only works with up to version 42 of the Whatchamacallit library, you ship it with that version of Whatchamacallit, the underlying OS doesn’t need to install it. Other containers running on the system that depend on that library don’t get broken since they’re packaged with version 69 which works fine for them.

Meme answer:

All good points. I fully agree, and I deserve it for living on the edge of technology like this. (The cavemen probably burned a few eyebrows off before figuring out not to touch the fire)

Worth noting, I didn’t mean to use snap, it was that “apt install chromium-browser” transparently installed it as a snap and I wasn’t paying attention at the time.

In general I don’t really care one way or another between apt, snap, or just plain downloading the source and doing a good old fashioned build from source like the old days. I just didn’t know to expect this certain installation method to lock out a certain browser feature I needed at the time. Now I know, so I won’t use snap for that (or maybe ever, I’m debating whether I just uninstall it). I wonder what fell out of my brain to make room for that, though. :D

I am pretty sure the no display sleep thing is down to whether I had a VirtualBox machine as the active window when I left it, so my “fix” is just to make sure I click some other window before I leave the desk. I have had fine experiences running VMs in Windows, nothing to report. I even do crazy stuff like pass through USB devices to the guest machine and all (that seems to work regardless of what host OS I run it on).

I do run into things on Windows and Mac sometimes, to be completely fair. Just fewer and further between. Maybe that’s just because there’s fewer things I can do on them, though. (Can’t build embedded Linux or Android images on them)

It’s worth a whole post of its own. Shame I had to drown it out with the other crap.

I wasn’t trying to use snap, but the apt package did a sneaky and installed the snap for me, as I found out when I hit the about and realized my Chromium was a snap package. They decided to move it to a transition package a few years back and I missed the memo.

Fair point that 20.04 is ancient. However, I have tried 22.04 and some stuff I tried to build with Yocto Project could no longer build, so I left my main machine at 20.04. Or was it the AOSP build that failed? I forget by now. Urgh. So much crap I’ll have to test when switching. :(

To keep this post short and sweet, I laser focused on the one issue that most recently grinded my gears. I can get rid of snap, but then, what’s going to happen next? That’s all I’m saying, really. There’s no perfect story, even my Mac drives me bonkers at times (yes thank you I know I removed the drive without ejecting). But yeah, should really try something different than Ubuntu at some point, or start fixing some of the stuff that bugs me instead of banging my head on the wall about it. I used to fix stuff. Even contributed some code to a few open source projects over the years. I’m just always trying to deal with something else at the time I run into these things and don’t have the patience to engineer my way out of it in the heat of the moment. I’m a whiny baby and I’d rather it just be fixed for me.

I whine about something something Ubuntu. I should probably switch to something else. But I decided to spend my time typing words instead.