Notices by Michal Kohutek (tylnesh@fosstodon.org)

@golemwire yeah, I get that. Lucky for us, nobody can prevent somebody from forking the snap client, implementing its server component according to the docs here https://dashboard.snapcraft.io/docs/index.html and pointing the patched client there. Since the client is open source and the servers protocol is public, all that’s missing is somebody with some free time and incentive.

@golemwire the thing is I can empathize with you wanting that, but on the other hand I don’t know why the hell i would ever want to change the repo… If I’m using Ubuntu, I’m already trusting them with root access to my system every time I do “apt upgrade”. And I don’t see people switching out their apt sources to third party repos.

Unironically loving the granularity of setting in the #Ubuntu 's reimagining of Windows UAC. All the more reasons to prefer #snap over legacy .deb packages.

@killyourfm I love the idea of an iPod life, but then I remember I love my AirPods and turn back to Apple Music.

@killyourfm loving that. I haven’t graduated yet to the fruits and veggies, but my cilantro, basil, rosemary and mint are already showing and can’t wait to use fresh herbs in my cooking once they have grown enough.

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh soviet union, not russia. Also, organizations change their goals as time passes.

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh your argument breaks down completely if you consider NATO an alliance of independent like minded countries (which it is) and not a counterpart to Russia. If you cannot consider it as such, there is nothing else to talk about.

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh from you own link. Like I said, I am a Slovak national and my family were so happy that we joined NATO, because they were worried about increasing Russian influence. Especially since we were occupied for decades by our “elder brother” nation, that claimed to protect us from the western aggression. When we tried to build a communist society with a more democratic values back in the 1968, they came in with tanks and stayed here until the fall of the USSR.

@RuiSeabra You seem to have forgotten that Russia and NATO were allies at the beginning of the millennium, with Russia actually wanting to join NATO. Also, NATO has only expanded once Russia started annexing countries left and right. Btw, even if Russia was able to conquer Ukraine, how would that help their NATO situation? My country, Slovakia is part of NATO, so is Poland and Hungary. If they were worried about bordering NATO, getting closer to three NATO countries is stupid.

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh like I said, I despise a lot of what the US has been doing, and I have no illusions about their foreign policy. The thing is, even if the US embassy built up a statue of Putin getting fisted by rainbow colored clowns on the Russia-Ukraine border, that gives Russia exactly 0 reasons for invading. Especially since Russia was one of the countries that were guaranteeing the sovereignty of Ukraine. Anyway,since all you do is spread moral relativism, it’s a dead end

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh when I argue about the war in Ukraine and you bring up unrelated rant about lying superpowers with a link about the US. War in Ukraine was an unprovoked act of imperialist aggression by the Russia. Anything else you claim is fueled by Russian propaganda

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh again, who gives a flying fuck about all this? If Ukraine wants to join NATO and NATO countries agree, then there’s all there is to it. It is a sovereign country and no matter “how threatened” Russia feels, it doesn’t give the any right to do anything about it. Also, it’s funny to hear how Russia is afraid of NATO aggression since they withdrew most of their forces from the border with actual NATO countries and moved them to the front in Ukraine.

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh also, where did you get that insane idea that I like the US? But bringing in US to a comment thread about war in Ukraine is a sign that you fell for the lies spread about the war. Ukraine has not started as a proxy war between US and Russia.

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh great use of whataboutism. You obviously fell for Russian tactic number one. Even in my country there was a saying whenever somebody criticized the regime - “… at least we don’t beat up black people”

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh Also, you have two types of bullies - bulls and lions. Bulls attack when they feel threatened by you. Lions attack when they don’t. Russia is a lion (sickly and perverted, but a lion nonetheless). Russia has done the same thing over and over - attack neighborhing countries with fabricated reasons and nobody responded. With each annexed territory, they figured they can get more. Until Ukraine, nobody did a damn and that resulted in our current situation.

@RuiSeabra @tylnesh please do educate me, it’s not like I spent my whole live living in a country filled with Russian influence and propaganda.

Also, it’s not like Russia to fabricate reasons based on half truths and revisionist history. Maybe look up their current opinion on the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968.

@RuiSeabra @jwildeboer giving platform to a war-mongering wannabe Hitler is being pro-war, not isolating the aasshole and not giving him further opportunities to spread propaganda and false reasoning for his own expansionist tendencies. Please educate yourself on Putin’s war in Chechnya, Georgia and Nagorno-Karabach. Putins attempts at invading neighboring countries is nothing new. Just the response of the West came too late to stop Russian aggression.

@killyourfm exactly. The one thing I really like about the Apple Sillicon computers is their energy efficiency. They may not be as powerful as newest Ryzens or Intels and their GPU lags massively against both AMD and NVidia, but their performance per watt is great. I don’t want my next desktop workstation to require a nuclear power plant. I want my computers to be ever more compact, light and only sipping power, while still having a ton of RAM and performance when needed.