“Less touching of the system, less chance of breaking something” seems to be the idea.

Pedestrian would be safer crossing somewhere with a pedestrian crossing

The “don’t step on me” people who talk about the right to bear arms often celebrate the police and the military

I think this is directed at the right

Flatpaks really aren’t for terminal stuff, it at least wasn’t the intention

You need to put the name inside the brackets and the link inside the parentheses.

idempotent matrices

With the open kernel modules you don’t have to do that anymore

It’s usually that way for a reason, is my thinking

Didn’t it end up that women were liberated to work same as men but also at home they had the home work too. Russia never really lost that patriarchal family dynamic.

I think every other Us based company has to follow the same laws, as you’d expect tbh.

Organic Maps said not to blame this on Microsoft but rather on US law

The above codecs-extra change meant that we now didn’t really have an use case for org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 since codecs-extra had FFMPEG’s internal H.264 decoder and the libx264 encoder.

Sounds like it was basically replaced with codecs-extra

They’re MIT licensed.

Not using different user accounts, that’s a paddling

And for someone not knowing what that is, it’s a way to install and update stuff no matter what the distro, without messing with distro repo or otherwise messing stuff up.

There’s the pill

That’s where the delay comes. Though I guess it does point out that even with just Firefox the differences are small in how quickly you get updates.

Did Zen come from flatpak and Firefox from deb?

And how’s that working out so far?

I think it was US OFAC sanctions

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regulations-and-open-source-us-ofac-sanctions

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/ (links to the OFAC sanctions set up after Russia invade Ukraine)

The OFAC sanctions do have quite a few lists, with one of them being “Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions”, so it could be fear of harmful actions and not just retaliation for the invasion