Oh no by all means do preach. I was just about doing the same about schroot. :p
And, like I said, it’s not that I don’t like it. It was just too much for the rather small usecase I had back at the time. I’m pretty sure if at some point I move to a distro less featured than Debian Sid I’m gonna have to pay more attention to Flatpak and Nix again.
I basically took the general idea from this Ubuntu doc and made som changes. After installing debootstrap, I followed these general steps:
adduser steam./var/lib/chroot/steam64.steam as one of its allowed users.debootstrap --variant=buildd bionic /var/lib/chroot/steam64 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/xhost +local:.xnest and xterm; between their dependencies, they’ll take care of most of everything).steam and fired up the Steam launcher manually.It’s not perfect, there are a few issues (in particular with audio) but once I had the installed schroot ready, I never had to worry about its 32-bit packages ever again. And that was back in… like, 2019 or something. Six months ago I copied to old schroot to my new machine and resumed playing, with no more cost than having to set up the schroot packages and the steam user (with the same old UID) on the new machine.
Here’s a sample of the schroot profile file I’m using. The “steam64.local” is the profile directory, which is basically a copy of schroot/buildd (or of schroot/minbase) with some configurations in fstab and copyfiles to account for eg.: isolating /var/run and dbus, and giving the schroot access to the home directory for the steam user.
Tried Nix once, I liked it but overall found it too complicated to setup and manage for the [counts fingers] three programs I was using it for. Might be worth the while if I need a larger library of programs from Outside, but so far Debian and AppImages have not failed me.
Part of the problem is, sure, that installing an entire arch for a package touches up a lot of stuff… What I did was I set up a debootstrap schroot and added i386 arch to that so that neither they nor Steam touch my main system. Not only did I never have problems with Steam again, but I actually resumed pretty much from what I was when I got a new machine, simply by copying the schroot files over. Didn’t even have to install anything (but the schroot serve on my new system itself).
So wait, Apple effectively mandates that users of their store lie to their users? Wonder if that’s something that can be tackled legally.
And that’s why IMO the project should ensmallened. Instead of trying to catch up to everything bloatware internet and Google are doing, Neo Firefox / Neo Mozilla could instead focus on developing a subset that’s lean and safe to use (no JS, for example) or even promote and offer first-class support to alternative internets like Gemini (the actual one, not Google’s namesquat).
There are still versions of Opera with their own original engine going around.
Damn, Presto should return. That thing could load like 300 tabs in like 30, maybe 60 MB RAM tops.
Tired: CEOs, changing CEOs
Wired: BDFL
Hey, it works wonders for Python.
I mean, you can even suicide on water (inb4 dihydrogen monoxide memes). This is just normal biology of a normal thing in the world.
Heck, forget water: you can even suicide on the ground below your feet. It’s just usually lots more work.
I’ll make my thesis about the methodology issues in that one!
So now Mozilla can stop receiving their hush money, right?
if it’s a superior system, then it’ll become the new standard
Not even remotely close to how it works. Remember: we had pulseaudio as the “new standard” for a decent while.
Since when has any antivirus ever had the intent of actually protecting against viruses? The entire antivirus market is a scam.
To be fair: not by our own account.
, and the laptop doesn’t have an Ethernet port so off you go to buy a usb-eth adaptor.
What, no Android USB tether? It’s been native since Debian 6 IIRC.
Yes but IMO the merge conflict PPV would work and be awesome, and the straight-up bribery already works.
How did you even get the picture of the W fan? W doesn’t even provide screen capture, nor global hotkeys to make PrintScreen work.
It’s the kind that drives Conservation Efforts and Media Attention. So yeah, I guess they tend to be colorful.
Next on your road: charismatic megafauna!
It makes snese they want to distance from the Minecraft name for that. Engendered annoying “but muh Minecraft” expectations, and there’s already the Mineclone2 aka Voxelibre “subgame” for grabbing that attention.