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Somewhere between Linux woes, gaming, open source, 3D printing, recreational coding, and occasional ranting.

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  • Security … Depends. If you want to sell the SSD, then yes, wiping the SSD is advised. You don’t need complicated random multiple-write patterns. Just make sure to wipe everything (keywords: wear-leveling, cache), you could use blkdiscard for that.

    Performance-wise nothing noticeable would change. Physically, SSDs are fast enough to modify the charge traps to store the bits as needed to store files regardless of what’s in those traps (that’s quite a rabbit hole).

    If you plan using the SSD for your own, you don’t need to wipe it, just repartition as needed and create the file systems in the partitions. What I do, is writing some data to the storage to destroy the partition table (dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/XYZ where XYZ is my target device – and then leave it runninf for a few seconds).

    Since you’re using encryption, the common tools only see garbage and no data (i.e. file system). So simply don’t decrypt and work with the mapped partition but use the device directly.













  • In no particular order

    • Kill off all AI in the browser. And don’t re-add it!
    • Do not use hidden extensions that can only be disabled in about:config
    • Make it possible to have tabs and a settable homepage in mobile Firefox
    • Make ALL telemetry and user tracking opt-in
    • Reinstate a fully customizable UI like in the past
    • Make it possible to locally load extensions (no, disabaling validation or temporary loading them for development reasons is not a solution)
    • Allow for app mode (see Chromium-based browser’s --app parameter)




  • The quoted image does not say so

    It does exactly say so. Flatpak is the only supported and official method of installation when you’re not using Ubuntu.

    As for the Fedora issue, that is a completely different thing. That is also Flatpak, so its not the package format itself the issue.

    Exactly. And the Flatpak version from Fedora was unusable.

    So where does the developers say that anything that is not their official Flatpak package is “borderline unusable”?

    They don’t. It’s just unsupported.



  • Flatpaks are great for situations where installing software is unnecessary complex or complicated.

    I have Steam installed for some games, and since this is a 32 bits application it would install a metric shit-don of 32 bit dependencies I do not use for anything else except Steam, so I use the Flatpak version.

    Or Kdenlive for video editing. Kdenlive is the only KDE software I use but when installing it, it feels like due to dependencies I also get pretty much all of the KDE desktop’s applications I do not need nor use nor want on my machine. So Flatpak it is.

    And then there is software like OBS, which is known for being borderline unusable when not using the only officially supported way to use it on Linux outside of Ubuntu – which is Flatpak.