That didn’t work. If you tried to play online with a CD key that someone else had already used, it wouldn’t let you.

I’m also very skeptical. I just didn’t want us to put words in their mouth, because people often do it in bad faith and I hate it.

It’s very difficult to get unbiased view of what’s happening on the ground for us far away.

But in other wars in history, after the dust had settled, it turned out there were cases where insurgents had raided local villages and blamed it on the invading force. I don’t know when the dust will settle on this one, but afterwards I suspect we’ll find there were no good guys.

As I discovered the hard way with my wife, if someone doesn’t care about something, you can’t teach them.

You just have to decide if this annoyance is worth putting up with because of other things you love about them.

Edit: it looks like my client posted this as a top level comment, instead of the comment I was replying to. I’ve reposted it in the correct place because it looks really bad without context.

They didn’t actually say it’s the Israeli settler outposts that HAMAS is attacking.

The only turnout that matters is November 4th.

Don’t threaten me with a good time?

Having a disc does not mean it will work offline, unfortunately. These retailers just want to be able to resell used copies so they can make extra money.

Don’t catch you trippin up!

In the current job market, you know it was the other way round.

Well, the isolation allows you select what’s appropriate for each bit of data.

For example, my financial data have to live elsewhere - namely the financial institutions I use. I’ve been paying Todoist $36/year for the past 12 years and they have zero pressure to enshittify, so I’m okay keeping that data elsewhere. I also outsource my email to Fastmail because it’s generally inadvisable to self-host email.

However, for most things that I’ve started using recently (karakeep, miniflux, baby-buddy, homebox, ghostfolio, and so many others), I’ve chosen open source apps and run their servers on my homelab. Linux on the server (unlike the desktop) is extremely well funded. There are a ton of different types of container and micro-vm configurations you can mix and match to give the exact level of isolation, resource, filesystem, and network access you’re comfortable with.

Also, I don’t think it makes much sense to use proprietary software for much in the future. The cost of software development has been going down at increasing rate for as long as I can remember for a variety of reasons, and LLM-assisted AI Agents is the just the latest iteration. With the latest SOTA models, it doesn’t take much to create an maintain a selfhosted OSS app - someone with the will to put in time and the most basic understanding of the basic fundamentals of software engineering.

Certainly not things I would trust particularly personal or sensitive data with. But remember that breaking out of server-side containers/micro-vms is really hard, and way beyond the capabilities of any AI slop.

So yeah, from what I’ve seen so far the best tools out there for enjoying the largest variety of software (including potentially undisclosed AI slop) safely is server-side Linux containers + client-side browser isolation. The closest thing we have to sandboxes in the desktop is flatpak, and it’s so trivial to break out that I’ve watched people do it unintentionally, just trying to make their app work in it.

Because installing a native app requires an enormous amount of trust. Every native app running as your user has read access to all data created by every other app including browsers and their secrets like saved credentials.

The Linux ecosystem mostly got away with this by being too small to be worth targeting. But several recent events (like the attacks on the AUR) have increasingly shown that we’ve passed the threshold where that’s no longer true.

So, what am I to use when I don’t have the time to go through the source code of every new version of every single app with a fine-toothed comb? Well, browsers (while not perfect) have some level of sandboxing, doing an overall decent job of keeping websites’ (apps) data isolated from each other.

Switching to use web apps whenever possible meant (at least, in Firefox) giving up a lot of the functionality of native apps (like default file associations, dedicated entry in the taskbar, and so many others). They’re basically refusing to acknowledge the open web as a platform that solves a real need: providing security and escape from walled-garden app stores (which is the bigger problem on mobile). Instead they’re spending their funding on AI, and VPNs, and random other features nobody really asked for.

While I think it’s very important that there is more than one browser implementation in the world, I have 2 choices:

1. Use Chromium fork to get security and convenience and privacy.
2. Use Firefox (or its forks) to maybe get privacy at the expense of the other two.

Because installing a native app requires an enormous amount of trust. Every native app running as your user has read access to all data created by every other app including browsers and their secrets like saved credentials to sensitive websites.

The Linux ecosystem mostly got away with this by being too small to be worth targeting. But several recent events (like the attacks on the AUR) have increasingly shown that we’ve passed the threshold where that’s no longer true.

So, what am I to use when I don’t have the time to go through the source code of every new version of every single app with a fine-toothed comb? Well, browsers (while not perfect) have some level of sandboxing, doing an overall decent job of keeping websites’ (apps) data isolated from each other.

Switching to use web apps whenever possible meant (at least, in Firefox) giving up a lot of the functionality of native apps (like default file associations, dedicated entry in the taskbar, and so many others). They’re basically refusing to acknowledge the open web as a platform that solves a real need: providing security and escape from walled-garden app stores (which is the bigger problem on mobile). Instead they’re spending their funding on AI, and VPNs, and random other features nobody really asked for.

While I think it’s very important that there is more than one browser implementation in the world, I have 2 choices:

1. Use Chromium fork to get security and convenience and privacy.
2. Use Firefox (or its forks) to maybe get privacy at the expense of the other two.

Their absolute and stubborn refusal to implement PWA made me give up on Firefox recently.

I tried using Chrome for PWA only and using Firefox for my main browser for a while (to help their market share), but it made it very difficult because external links would open in Chrome.

I’ve found like 80% of sites I use are self hosted so I found it easier to just stop using websites with ads than dealing with Firefox 😞

Can you explain it to those of us that still don’t get it?

Aww man, I really miss that show

First version of Kodi was released in 2002.

It’s now 2026, so that’s more than two decades of development.

If you mean limitations in the client, I discovered that there’s a Jellyfin for Kodi plugin.

Kodi has had decades of development. It’s super customizable, has every feature you can think of, direct plays every video format, and is fast.

Having it act as a Jellyfin client has been amazing and given me the best of both worlds.

Representatives don’t give a fuck what their constituents have to say on social media. It’s full of foreign trolls and bots.

But if you go in person to a town hall / public hearing on an agenda item, they know that you are:

• A real person
• An American
• Extremely likely to vote in the next election.

Source: I successfully killed a local zoning change by convincing my neighbors to go out and speak against it, despite lobbying from a large developer.

You didn’t mention a lack of ads. They remove all the ads when you subscribe, right?