Firefox is literally not in Ubuntu's repos anymore. They didn't want to maintain it as Mozilla agreed to just make the Snap version that works across all Ubuntu versions and anywhere else.
What should the command do? Just fail? Instead it clearly tells you it's downloading the snap of Firefox.
In fact if it was up to me I would just get rid of most GUI apps from the repos that have a snap/flatpak equivalent.
So is android and many other technologies we rely on everyday.
He is a true CEO of Linux. Has no clue about what he's doing but he's very confident. He should've at least read a tiny bit about how this works. Such as, you can't go and install apt packages without updating your system first, or else you will run into issues. You also can't use a GUI apt frontend as well as apt via the command line. Some of the errors he encountered are totally Ubuntu's fault tho, such as the broken installer.
From what I've seen Ubuntu LTS to LTS updates still work just fine. When I see a post on reddit asking why did it fail, it's usually due to PPAs or because they upgraded to a LTS that released recently and something is wrong with the upgrade path. Mistakes happen, and get fixed. Windows 11 also fucked up some computers that attempted to upgrade to 24H2.
I totally get not trusting the distro anymore if it caused you so many problems tho.
I also want a progress bar or something to indicate when things are complete and I can resume doing whatever I had in min
This was actually added in 24.10. When you close the running app that wants to update, a progress bar appears under its icon in the dock. (https://youtu.be/MI0cN1tuZGU?t=5m44s)
As for the notifications, yes I can see them being annoying. But they can be turned off in the settings. In which case the ideal behaviour is you quitting the app, doing something else, and the apo quietly auto updating in the background. There are bugs. I experienced having to close Firefox for a few seconds because it wanted to update. This should be changed.
What I also don't like is how you will encounter abandoned snaps such as qbittorrent, but under it there will be qbittorrent-something, the app maintained by another person. It would make a lot of sense to just transfer the ownership of qbittorrent to the active maintainer.
Edit: Progress is also being made to make the Snap permissions behave similarly like apps on Android. A user will open Firefox, save an image, and a popup will ask whether Firefox should be allowed to access to Downloads, or to the entire Home folder. More permissions like this are expected to arrive in the future.
That's correct. If you trust the client, it's fine. Such as if your messages leave the device encrypted already. If the encryption is handled by the server tho, its license does not matter in any way, they can do whatever they want with it. I know telegram has two communication modes, and if you trust the E2E one then all should be well. (I don't know how great Telegram's client-side encryption is)
I'm not defending Telegram here, I don't really trust it, but all that matters in encrypted communication in general is whether the client app is secure and no sensitive data leave it unencrypted.
You keep saying broken but Canonical has an entire OS that is made up of Snaps and it works well. I used snaps on multiple devices and it rarely gave me trouble. Nothing is perfect but "fundamentally broken" is bullshit.
Trying to twist that as an elitist point of view with FOSS (which there are plenty of, obviously) is misleading and just straight up false.
I recognize that your reasons for disliking snaps go deeper than screeching about how flatpak repos are selfhostable and Canonical is trying to take over Linux or whatever. But that's what I mainly encounter on all social media. Hatred for a piece of tech simply because other people said it's bad, therefore it must be.
Auto updating is not inherently bad. Regular users don't keep their systems up to date and so Snap does it for them. I get that this pisses some people off because it resembles windows, but guess why windows works this way? Its users don't know how to update either. So Microsoft chose to rather piss off a few nerds with default automatic updates than risk millions of computers being vulnerable.
For an advanced user it just can't be a problem to postpone snap updates with a simple command.
I disagree for many reasons, but I realize that nobody on Lemmy really gives a shit since people here react to anything that even smells of proprietary as if it was radioactive.
Found the porch pirate.
A former NASA engineer that started a youtube channel where he showcases the tech projects he works on. You may know him from the Glitter Bomb series where he humiliated a lot of porch pirates.
Uncompressed This meme was not made by a sentient AI trying to reach out for help.
Context: I sometimes hear the argument that god explicitly told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit, the same way a parent tells its child not to stick things or touch electrical outlets. So god forcing the two of them to have children and dooming every human ever since is perfectly justified.
I mean seriously, I would never expect so much functionality even from a paid proprietary software. This is truly amazing.
I use the apps my friends use but it gets tiring to keep up with so many.
I try to see the world and everything in it for what it really is. I don't believe in fate, god, karma, souls, etc. The way I see it, I'm depressed and don't enjoy life because I'm just a collection of electrical signals/chemical processes inside of my brian. And my brain is fucked. I can't relate to people who genuinely enjoy life. I get sparks of happyness but spend most of the time being miserable.
Another personal reasons for why I don't enjoy life is change. I know that no change = no progress = boredom, but I still despise it. And look at that, literally everything in life changes all the fucking time. Loved ones die, pets die, the tech I love slowly dies out.
And then there is the looming threat of dying at any moment because I'm a fragile organism that can die even while sleeping. That terrifies me to no end. Just suddenly not existing. And yes I have watched motivational videos advocating for why we shouldn't fear death. I'm not buying it.