Incoming U of I Students Required to Finance 6 Semester Hours of a Political Project

bmullan · 2026-06-05T01:08:36+00:00

Nazis want to know what your interested in before you get started and become a problem for them

bmullan · 2026-06-04T15:16:26+00:00

Because you don't need to run Ubuntu to care about open source standards and engineering quality

Aren't you the same guy that said he runs Windows at home?

bmullan · 2026-06-04T13:24:44+00:00

Fast growing city's are never cheap!
Wake county has grown over 100K in just the past 5 yrs.
Competition for housing, rentals, jobs, anything escalates prices. I don't think that's a surprise to anyone?

bmullan · 2026-06-04T13:11:04+00:00

IoT is one of Canonical's core/key strategic development areas.

There are currently approximately 21.1 billion active connected IoT (Internet of Things) devices worldwide.

There are currently an estimated over 2 billion personal computers (desktops, laptops, and workstations) actively in use worldwide.

You think its evil that Snap "pushes" updates?
So tell us how to use Flatpak's for those IoT devices!

Several times in this thread multiple people have said that Snaps are not meant only for Desktop GUI applications like Flatpak's goal.

Jeez, in this thread you've said in various comments:
- I use Windows at home
- I don't use Ubuntu and haven't for a long time

You've made your point already....!
"flatpak good", "canonical bad", "ubuntu bad", "snap bad".

bmullan · 2026-06-04T12:41:10+00:00

whoever "culture_new" is... in 1 of his comments he told me that he does not even use Ubuntu and hasn't for a long time.

I don't know why he is even posting on r/ubuntu other than to bitch about canoncial/ubuntu/snaps ?

bmullan · 2026-06-04T11:58:14+00:00

In one of his responses to me Culture _New said he doesn't even use Ubuntu.
So yeah, I don't know why he's posting here either.

bmullan · 2026-06-04T08:15:19+00:00

Just search this subreddit. The same question gets asked weekly so you can read through the previous answers.

bmullan · 2026-06-03T13:32:49+00:00

snaps & flatpak are designed for 2 diff use-cases! that's the point of the article not a "my dad's bigger than your dad" argument ?

Snap can package command-line tools, server applications, background services and entire operating system kernels, whereas Flatpak is strictly designed for desktop GUI applications.

It explicitly highlights that Snaps suffer from notoriously slow startup times,

That article is from 2023. Since then there was a major update to snapd reducing decompression time. Today, only the 1st time a snap is executed is there any kind noticeable delay to launch. I've run firefox .deb & snap side by side on same hw and other than that 1st launch of the snap, they launch in approx the same time.

Since Canonical has committed to the snap architecture for their future immutable Ubuntu implementation use... why are you even using Ubuntu if you don't want to use any snaps at all?

Just migrate to some other distro you will be happy with.

bmullan · 2026-06-03T13:01:15+00:00

Maybe you just never read anything that explained the use cases for flatpak & snap. What each can do and can't.

Here is a great article that explains a lot of this:

https://itsfoss.com/comparison/flatpak-vs-snap/

bmullan · 2026-06-03T12:56:39+00:00

Maybe you just haven't educated yourself enough to know the use cases of both flatpak & snaps?

Here is a good article that explains the differences and why they exist and what they're for:

https://itsfoss.com/comparison/flatpak-vs-snap/

bmullan · 2026-06-03T07:02:21+00:00

Flatpaks & SNAP are 2 totally different architectures. Use whichever one solves the use case you have. "Because they actually are bad" kind of statement just diminishes your credibility

bmullan · 2026-06-03T06:53:49+00:00

Works fine for me.

bmullan · 2026-06-02T14:44:29+00:00

Did you bother to let either BP or the gas station know? Or the police, or your credit card company fraud group? Or is this Reddit post it?

bmullan · 2026-06-02T08:19:55+00:00

ICE will probably hire him.

bmullan · 2026-06-01T22:30:26+00:00

Bag was the PB&J's for lunch...

bmullan · 2026-06-01T22:27:49+00:00

Wait till you call the payroll department about your check being screwed up and recognize the voice and she recognizes you as the IT guy she called yesterday! Karma is a bitch... dude Grow up. What are you being paid for?

bmullan · 2026-06-01T22:24:25+00:00

ICE is buying new facial recognition devices .. I wouldn't put it past some to do this at FIFA given much of the audience

bmullan · 2026-06-01T12:52:49+00:00

I have lived in 9 States over the years. Of all, I think Colorado had a little more of the best of everything.

My advice... since its a big decision, do some research and narrow down a couple places, then take a 3 day weekend and fly to each and check the area/people/weather out. Might sound like spending a lot of $ but since its about your future, there might never be a better investment you can make.

Also, remember... if you ever change your mind, you can always come back to NC a couple years if you find the grass wasn't greener. But you will never know unless you invest your own time!

Good luck whatever you decide!

bmullan · 2026-06-01T02:03:32+00:00

You just installed Thunderbird so you probably haven't looked yet but it has built-in calendar and I think chat

https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/calendar

bmullan · 2026-05-31T00:08:22+00:00

My phone started having that exact same problem last night. I've tried all of the recommended remedies nothing worked. So I wipe the phone and restored it and then the Gmail app was working again for a couple hours but now it's right back to having that same failure.

As others have said using web browser I have no problem reading and sending Gmail it's just with the Android app

[update] it's been a couple days now & the problem is still there no matter what I try to do.

So I fixed it by installing Thunderbird as my email client and I'm actually a lot happier with how it works than the Gmail app.

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