Here’s gemini’s attempt:

Offline/internal network installs can be handled with flatpak create-usb - https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/usb-drives.html

One can distribute flatpaks along with their dependencies on USB drives (or network shares, etc.) which is especially helpful in situations where Internet access is limited or non-existent.

Cache/mirroring would be great for those who need it.

Edit:

Thinking about it, I wonder if there’s enough “core features” with ‘create-usb’ that its just matter of scripting something together to intercept requests, auto-create-usb what’s being requested and then serve the package locally? If a whole mirror is required, it may be possible to iterate over all flathub packages and ‘create-usb’ the entire repo to have a local cache/mirror? Just thinking “out loud”.

about time?

100% agree. Would be nice to be able to just “dock” into a USB-C cable and have a working “PC” at my disposal. Appreciate the response.

genuine question, what do you expect out of a mobile OS that you can’t do now?

For anyone considering Session messenger:

The Session developers dropped Perfect Forward Secrecy because it would be hard to work around it.

First things first, let’s talk about what we’re leaving behind: Perfect Forward Secrecy (PFS) and deniability.

Source: https://getsession.org/session-protocol-explained

In plain English, they dropped a security feature for their convenience to the detriment of their users’ security.

For anyone unsure what PFS provides:

The value of forward secrecy is that it protects past communication.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_secrecy

The Session devs also claim:

Session provides protections against these types of threats in other ways — through fully anonymous account creation, onion routing, and metadata minimisation, for example.

Reading between the lines, we can interpret that as introducing security through obscurity, which is generally considered bad practice - https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/656.html

What’s wrong with Briar? https://briarproject.org/

Censorship-resistant peer-to-peer messaging that bypasses centralized servers. Connect via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi or Tor, with privacy built-in.

I think the reason these apps don’t take off is the compromises they make in order to work the way they do. When you do need them, you best hope you’re able to get them and get others to use them as well.

Correct me if I’m wrong but does FOSS not simply mean the following?

software that is available under a license that grants the right to use, modify, and distribute the software, modified or not, to everyone free of charge

source: Wikipedia

From my understanding AOSP’s license grants all those rights. I think what you might be opposed to is that it isn’t developed out in the open, which is a fair criticism.

Is it just Democrats or was it a bipartisan deal? do you have any links to support the claim?

I’m able to play the Italian plumber game, can’t remember the name, on my spare six year old OnePlus 6T Android phone with a Bluetooth 8BitDo controller. my new Google Pixel crashes when I hit the jump button. it really depeyon the hardware. Also runs great on my desktop.

link for anyone wanting to avoid the dead bird site:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240212054146/https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1756888470599967000

out of the loop since I’ve moved to debian and been using flatpak for the last few years, what software are you installing via PPA that isn’t generally available via flatpak?

This link goes straight to the video and skips the website for anyone wanting to avoid it.

https://customer-aw5py76sw8wyqzmh.cloudflarestream.com/2463f6d3e06fa29710a337f5f5389fd8/iframe

If you’re using Firefox on the desktop, try magnolia1234’s Bypass Paywalls [0]. Works really well.

[0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

Ooh silverbullet looks nice too, thanks. Link for the lazy: https://silverbullet.md/

Significantly overblown. Most of the opened github issues were by the same person. Seems someone doesn’t like it and is trying to spam the issue and frame it as a bigger deal than it really is.

If you’re on Firefox on desktop/laptop, check out Bypass Paywall [0]. It was removed from the firefox add-on store due to a DMCA claim [1], but can be manually installed (and auto updates) from gitlab. The dev even provides instructions on how to add custom filters to uBlock Origin [2], so you don’t have to add another extension but still get some benefit.

[0] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

[1] https://winaero.com/mozilla-has-silently-removed-the-bypass-paywalls-clean-add-on-from-amo/

[2] https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters

CLI’s are likely not specifically the target. I suspect the CLI is just the “low hanging fruit” and core set of software that needs to be supported before you build up to a fully functional GUI apps.

I’ve been hoping this project makes significant progress for the last few years to run GUI apps. unfortunately it’s been slow as there’s not as much interest in getting Mac apps to run on Linux as there is with WINE. that said, I don’t fault them, it’s a daunting task and wine has the benefit of three decades of progress under their belt.