So I have to update my #flatpak package every time each of my dependencies get updated? 🤔
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This is a talk you CANNOT miss! Sebastian Wick, a flatpak maintainer gives reflective view of flatpak and how the world changed after flatpak was released and what the next generation of flatpak and portals will look like!
#flatpak #opensource #linux #opensource
FLOSS #MaintainerLife public service advisory:
If you're filing a potential bug upstream in #GNOME, particularly on rapidly-improving apps like GNOME Calendar, please test the latest version, unmodified by third-parties. #Flatpak helps.
Don't come at me with a 4-years-old version cowboy-patched against our will by #Linux distros like Mint; I will send you downstream, like this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calendar/-/issues/1526#note_2640160
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #QA #bugreporting #LinuxMint #Debian #Ubuntu #LTS #GNOMECalendar
The ThinkPad A475 is back to life, this time as Crosshair, running a fresh install of CachyOS.
#CachyOS is intriguing, even though it took some work to get it installed and working. I haven’t played with #Arch since Manjaro borked my installation about a year ago.
CachyOS has no Discover in Plasma, no #Pamac, no #Flatpak. Octopi does packages, and Arch nerds will sniff that it and the AUR are all you need.
I beg to differ.
sudo pacman -S pamac flatpak
Fixed.
@simontatham It's been a looong time since I used #putty (I ran it in a #Wine "bottle", these came from #flatpak, I'm using Debian 13 #KDE). Thanks for all your efforts!
To my mind, 98% of the time, people would use putty to log into a #linux box/VPS, like say a #RaspberryPi (Raspberry Pi OS, is #Debian Trixie 13-based). This would be a sensible default assumption, **demographically**.
It took a good 2 hours of struggling, just to get 256 colors to work in Putty! (#Python's textualize library seriously expects 256, or *it can crash* when the Theme is changed). Please let the defaults be sane, so there's no struggle for 256 colors! Please alleviate my nerd rage - I beseech you!
1) Sane TERM env var:
Connection -> Data -> Terminal details -> Terminal-type string -> "putty-256color"
2) Sane default font:
Window -> Appearance -> Font settings -> "Change" button -> adwaita mono 12
3) Sane bolding of text:
Window -> Colors -> General options for color usage -> Indicate bolded text by changing: The font
4) Sane (Linux-terminal-style) Ctrl + Shift + {C,V} (for copy and paste):
Window -> Selection -> Assign copy/paste actions to clipboard -> Ctrl + Shift + (C,V}: System Clipboard
Based on some recent news, and an interaction I had.
Explore and manage your applications with GNOME Circle's newest app, Bazaar, the next generation Flatpak store! Thanks Eva and Alexander Vanhee for maintaining Bazaar!
Get it on Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.kolunmi.Bazaar
“#Flathub is now accepting AI slop”
the Flathub reviewers have blocked over 1,000 slop apps in 2026 alone. that’s half of the verified app count.
close to a quarter of the store could have been ensloppified by now!
if you want to know what a slopnami looks like, just have a look at this link:
https://github.com/flathub/flathub/pulls?q=is%3Apr+state%3Aclosed+label%3A%22AI+Slop%22
