From a technical point of view:

• Appimages are like MacOS .app programs. You download a random executable from a random website, that contains everything it needs to run. It’s the antithesis of the Linux way. Great for portability, awful for everything else. There are no automatic updates unless the developer explicitly bothers to implement them.
• Snaps are like docker containers. Each snap also contains everything it needs to run, but at least there is a centralized update system.
• Flatpaks are like another package manager layered over your OS. It manages its own dependency system isolated from your main dependency management. It updates its stuff pretty much like apt/dnf/pacman.
• Native are managed through your distro’s package manager, obviously.

From a feature/version point of view:

• If you have a bleeding edge or quickly moving distro, native packages are fine if you want/need up to date software. Arch users shouldn’t need Flatpaks for example. The downside is that those packages are made by the distro’s maintainers so can be anywhere from untested pre-release software (happened in Manjaro) to extremely outdated (like in Debian oldstable).
• Flatpaks/Snaps/Appimages are more and more maintained and packaged by their developers. It’s great for them as you only need to package once, all bug reports are on versions you control, and you don’t need to depend on a distro’s maintainer time and will to push updates to users. For stable distros users, this is theoretically the best of both worlds: a stable, tested OS with up to date user facing applications.

From a philosophical point of view:

• Appimages and Flatpaks are fully FOSS. Flathub is the dominant ways of distributing Flatpaks but anyone can create a competitor.
• Snaps are distributed through Canonical’s Snap Store, which is not FOSS and is vulnerable to Canonical’s corporate meddling.

My personal preference:

• Flatpaks for GUI apps, native for CLI tools
• Appimages as a last resort if it’s the only way to get a specific app.
• Snaps never.

Today I’m making yet another variation of my witbier, this time with kweik and lemon balm.

Oh thanks, I’ll check it out.

I tried running the tgz a few months ago. It needed a shitload of deprecated python dependancies, I’m not well versed in python so after the 10th pip install I gave up.

Version 4 is unfortunately closed source and paid.

Seriously tho. Wefwef is incredible. Every instance should install it and give the choice to its users between the two frontends. PLus it would solve the rate limitation problems as both would be hosted on the same server.

I use Mlem ATM and I like it but Wefwef is crazy good.

Wow nice! I just replaced the Apollo icon on my Home Screen with this.

Looks great and feels like Apollo!

It’s meta. Their intentions are never honest.

I went to my first IRL GP in Monaco this year, and the F1s were definitely the “quietest” of the lot. Still painful after a while, but not as much as the other series.

The Porsche Cup cars are obnoxiously loud. The F2 car engines sound dull but downshifts sound like gun shots.

I think if you want ear splitting sound levels and variety, go see a GT3 race.

I bought an AES with controllers, memory card and a few games from an unsuspecting kid in the late 90’ for next to nothing because “2D games are old”, best deal I ever made.

I could never afford “new” games tho, so I bought and superguned a MVS a few years later. Windjammers still is a late-night staple with friends.

Eh. To each their own.

I feel this should have been part of my beloved “Trotskyist insults” stamp set I was gifted many years ago.

Pandering to his misogynistic neofascist fanbase?

Seeing him during interviews on french tv is getting more and more heartbreaking. What we see is a broken man, frustrated by so many fuckups that he lost all hope. Fred needs to step up and find race engineers who can handle the pressure.

I feel like he isn’t overdriving anymore. There’s no hope for championship, therefore no need to compensate for the clownery or the car’s shortcomings. Last year’s first half, he could keep up with the RBs by staying constantly at the limit, which left no room for mistakes, while Max could casually sbinalla and retake the lead in 3 laps. This year… yeah.

Yeah, no problem with a super tight community on a forum. I’m part of places like that, they’re great, we really know each other, some of the people I met there are now some of my closest friends.

I just feel that for place(s) like here, everyone should have the right to choose what content they want (or not) to see in this fast growing network.

I swear I’ve never heard “tankie” before a week ago and now I’m on Lemmy I read it 50 times a day.

undefined>Beehaw.org wants a curated community and Lemmy.world doesn’t. Beehaw.org has a tougher sign up process while it’s basically free at Lemmy.world.

To be fair beehaw seems very different from the joyous anarchic freedom we enjoy here (I’ve been on Lemmy for a week and feel more at home than I ever was on Reddit). No right to create new communities, registration needs approval…

maybe they’ll come back to the federation, maybe they’ll be their own thing. I hope for the former because there is some great content there too.