not when there was a user intent like clicking a button.

For example in this screenshot, it’s likely that there’s only the “verify I’m human” button first, you click it, the steps pop up, and at the same time the command ist copied into your clipboard

I’ve stopped using them for over a year now.

Granted, most of the apps I used were snap based, but some of them were flatpack.

Most of them were single-use “use this tool with flatpack” tools via github, so I really can’t remember what those were when they just didn’t work.

The ones I looked into why it didn’t work were always some filesystem permission stuff. Configurable? Sure. Not something you should be needing to do on first launch if you want to just use the tool? Absolutely

The biggest issue I remember I had was with Vorta, a GUI for borg. Which also just had massive filesystem issues (plus some settings saving issues, which I assume also is a FS issue). Having problems reading your filesystem is quite a problem when you want to use a tool that, well, needs to read your filesystem.

I’m honestly not really interested in stacking a pile of tools up that just didn’t work for me.

If you like flatpack, go ahead. More power to the people who do.

It’s just not a tool that I had any luck with. And I don’t really see a point in trying again for the forseeable future

I mean, it’s great that it works for you.

But I’m not even kidding. Literally every single one.

I’ve now completely purged all snap and fp apps from my system and live a less angry life

Fyi, Mozilla released an official apt package a couple months ago to get Firefox without snap

I despise flatpak and snap equally

Not a single time have I used a program with them that worked properly

Agreed. While a noble cause, it was honestly predictable.

I don’t understand why they did that. Their status was already quite shaky. They really shot themselves and their users in the foot

that’s for fediverse. not bluesky

SpaceX still has the benefit of being run by someone who is at least somewhat less unhinged (shotwell)

you need to keep in mind that microsoft is a small business, so they don’t have a lot of resorces to assign to this

frosted glass exists

yup. The couple of times I had to use one, the bad UX absolutely annoyed the hell out of me

opening new settings will just replace where you just where

I don’t use windows super often anymore, so I don’t really have that usecase, but man. Just imagining it makes me annoyed and angry

What do you mean? They all wear a tuxedo

“well, because they want to sell their products. isn’t that obvious?”

Linux at home:

He and his lawyer started doing that in the late 90s. When the labels just started knowing what the heck this newfangled internet even is.

In den späten 90er Jahren, kurz nachdem er wegen Kreditkartenmissbrauch verhaftet worden war, wurden in Hackerkreisen Stimmen laut, dass Kimble auch seine Freunde an die Softwareindustrie gegen Entgelt ausgeliefert habe. Der damalige berüchtigte Schwarzkopierer-Jäger und Anwalt Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth hat seinen eigenen Aussagen zufolge Kimble als sogenannten Testbesteller beschäftigt.

Source

Just one of the articles that goes into this assholes history

Translation

In the late 1990s, shortly after he was arrested for credit card fraud, there were rumors in hacker circles that Kimble had also handed over his friends to the software industry for a fee. Günther Freiherr von Gravenreuth, the notorious pirate hunter and lawyer at the time, said he employed Kimble as a so-called test orderer

They mass-collected the connection data and started mass-sueing/extorting. Nobody else did on such a large scale at the time.

from odd eccentric file sharing site founder

no. he basically started with credit card fraud and “sueing people who fileshare”. Together with a lawer he basically invented the practice of “see which IPs share copyrighted data, request the user data from the ISP and send out C&D extiotion letters to the ISP customers”

It’s arguably not even him that it really running it

Square tower. Time to make the purge tower a circle

Yup

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/born-in-the-usa-prusa-is-now-making-3d-printers-and-filament-in-delaware