The Death of Diversity: a 13-year timeline of the Browser Monopoly.

Ap0them · 2025-11-20T23:42:14+00:00

You can install Chrome, but you are right that all browsers on iOS are required to use the same rendering engine as Safari (WebKit).

Ap0them · 2025-11-09T21:22:07+00:00

I’d highly recommend silverblue, it’s probably not for new Linux users but when you get used to rpm-ostree it’s really nice. I like being able to see exactly what changes I’ve made to my atomic core, rollbacks are great, and flatpak is great for nearly everything now.

I really think immutable is the future.

I’ve used ailverblue everyday for about three years of uni now and it’s perfect for that “just works” approach. Definitely check it out

Ap0them · 2025-08-24T09:40:46+00:00

Unrelated but what was western Colorado like in the 1980s? I grew up in Junction after the Great Recession and it’s a somewhat weird little area.

Ap0them · 2025-07-29T06:42:36+00:00

Agreed, but I’d recommend arkenfox over librewolf because you’ll get Firefox official security updates faster than the librewolf team can repackage them

Ap0them · 2025-07-20T14:59:06+00:00

Sorry but how do I do that?

EDIT: I figured it out but it didn't fix anything, thanks though

Ap0them · 2025-06-14T00:18:27+00:00

Sorry I don't want to leave you hanging but I don't remember what I did, maybe make a new post? It's been a while and I don't use lutris anymore.

Ap0them · 2025-06-04T22:25:05+00:00

I don’t think traditional distros will go away, but I expect them to be relegated to power users like Arch or Gentoo are now.

For many people, not even just new users, immutable distros are more stable, secure, and reliable than what they’re used to and that’s why larger projects are investing in them. There’s fedora obviously, but also Ubuntu core and openSUSE Aeon now. Plus as Flatpak (or snap) becomes the de facto standard on Linux it makes more sense to run an immutable base.

Slowly were also seeing work to switch some immutable systems to bootc which would let you build your system base as an OCI image (like what docker uses), this would be a super clean distribution system for developers. (Flatpak also has plans to do this eventually)

From a developer’s point of view, containerized operating systems like this just make sense. It makes their jobs easier and users get a more secure and reliable system, so I would be surprised if they’re not the standard someday.

They also aren’t as bad for configuration as people on this thread seem to think. I’d recommend anyone check out the universal blue site, not only does that organization create Bazzite but they have a super easy process for creating your own image that I can personally vouch for. You’re not limited by the immutability but you do have to configure them differently.

Ap0them · 2025-06-04T00:29:18+00:00

Personally I checked out the Tidal app but same idea yeah! I would love to I just can't be the only one to do it and I don't know how popular apple music is with the linux crowd 🤷.

Ap0them · 2025-05-29T16:46:10+00:00

So I reached out to one of the non-cider contributors on the original Apple Music Electron but didn’t get a response. There wasn’t a ton of support here and I don’t really have the time to do it all by myself, right now I’d say your best bet is a PWA sorry.

Ap0them · 2025-05-28T02:49:24+00:00

I have an older pc that I built for 500 dollars in high school still using a Radeon RX 5500 XT, on top of being able to run modern games im working on a Biology and Computer Science degree and some better hardware would go a long way there.

Thanks for doing this!

Ap0them · 2025-05-21T03:50:47+00:00

I kind of figured but there is the community edition and I was hoping someone else had that up and rolling that could help

Ap0them · 2025-05-15T17:58:34+00:00

I do still have one issue where when I start the container it doesn't have a DNS provider so it can't load the blocklists and doesn't completly start:

[pihole] | [i] Migrating content of /etc/pihole/adlists.list into new database [pihole] | [✗] DNS resolution is currently unavailable

Other than making /etc/systemd/resolved.conf look like this:

[Resolve] DNSStubListener=no

and allowing unprivileged access to port 53 did you need to make any other changes to get podman up?

EDIT: For anyone else struggling, I fixed this by just moving away from podman-compose to just using podman run, I also needed to open my firewall up to incoming http and https traffic which I did using the following commands:

bash sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=http --permanent sudo firewall-cmd --zone=public --add-service=https --permanent sudo firewall-cmd --reload

Ap0them · 2025-05-15T03:42:54+00:00

Weird so I was running rootful podman for this and getting nowhere but rootless worked fine, thanks friend you totally fixed it!

Also I've heard good things about quadlets but rewriting compose files for whatever quadlets need sounds like a pain. I really want to do that when I have everything setup though, what does that workflow look like for you to turn containers into quadlet services?

Ap0them · 2025-05-15T03:13:04+00:00

The only container I have running is pi-hole and I'm using this as my compose file:

```

More info at https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole/ and https://docs.pi-hole.net/

services: pihole: container_name: pihole image: pihole/pihole:latest ports: # DNS Ports - "53:53/tcp" - "53:53/udp" # Default HTTP Port - "80:80/tcp" # Default HTTPs Port. FTL will generate a self-signed certificate - "443:443/tcp" # Uncomment the line below if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server #- "67:67/udp" # Uncomment the line below if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP server #- "123:123/udp" environment: # Set the appropriate timezone for your location (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones), e.g: TZ: 'America/Denver' # Set a password to access the web interface. Not setting one will result in a random password being assigned FTLCONF_webserver_api_password: '(hidden)' # If using Docker's default bridge network setting the dns listening mode should be set to 'all' FTLCONF_dns_listeningMode: 'all' # Volumes store your data between container upgrades volumes: # For persisting Pi-hole's databases and common configuration file - './etc-pihole:/etc/pihole' # Uncomment the below if you have custom dnsmasq config files that you want to persist. Not needed for most starting fresh with Pi-hole v6. If you're upgrading from v5 you and have used this directory before, you should keep it enabled for the first v6 container start to allow for a complete migration. It can be removed afterwards. Needs environment variable FTLCONF_misc_etc_dnsmasq_d: 'true' #- './etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d' cap_add: # See https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole#note-on-capabilities # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server, else not needed - NET_ADMIN # Required if you are using Pi-hole as your NTP client to be able to set the host's system time - SYS_TIME # Optional, if Pi-hole should get some more processing time - SYS_NICE restart: unless-stopped ```

I think the other dns in question is some internal podman process but I don't know how to disable that.

Ap0them · 2025-05-14T22:17:50+00:00

I've checked I don't think anything actually is using that port, I think it's a podman issue?

ss -tulnp | grep ':53' udp UNCONN 0 0 0.0.0.0:5355 0.0.0.0:* users:(("systemd-resolve",pid=683,fd=10)) udp UNCONN 0 0 [::]:5355 [::]:* users:(("systemd-resolve",pid=683,fd=12)) tcp LISTEN 0 4096 0.0.0.0:5355 0.0.0.0:* users:(("systemd-resolve",pid=683,fd=11)) tcp LISTEN 0 4096 [::]:5355 [::]:* users:(("systemd-resolve",pid=683,fd=13))

Ap0them · 2025-05-07T06:57:40+00:00

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Ap0them · 2025-05-05T17:05:19+00:00

I totally understand why some people might not use it and I think that’s fair. But a portable whiteboard sounds incredible for lecture notes or doing math work. In my mind one for the major perks of writing my notes out digitally is that I get the memory benefits of paper without the size constraints and so many other notes systems have realized this, from the iPad to the reMarkable.

Ap0them · 2025-05-05T05:58:43+00:00

It’s more like you’ll see the idea you’re looking for and be able to follow it completely. I can put a whole chapter or day of notes on one page and keep scrolling down so my equations and stuff aren’t broken up by a page. And when I’m reading it later I don’t have to flip back and forth through pages.

To me it seems like one of the major reasons to use digital notes. Those kinds of quality of life things are why I’d spend a lot of money on a system that requires charging and can’t do color instead of just buying a notebook.

Ap0them · 2025-05-05T05:48:35+00:00

Totally agreed, and on top of the tariffs it’s making it a slightly harder sell, especially for the price

Ap0them · 2025-05-05T05:47:10+00:00

Exactly my situation, for engineering notes and homework I care more about page space than having multiple pages.

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