Some of the more extreme people call it unnecessary bloat. I think it’s a great solution and really important for the mainstream adoption of Linux. And yeah snaps are shit and fully deserving of that reputation. I suspect some of the flatpak hate is also from a confusion with snap.
Flatpaks get a lot of hate but I really think they are the future. It gives all developers a standard to develop for to cover almost all Linux distros. It gives some additional sandboxing which is also nice.
As someone studying mechanical engineer I’m well aware of the process. I’m also well aware that all commercial generators must abide by environmental regulations.
I thought they where using commercial off the shelf generators?
Its all about pub sub relations. Being on a smaller instance in mastodon means u miss a whole bunch of activity and thus don’t have the full picture.
Lemmy and others have a community which means a community receives an activity and then that community pushes that activity to all its subscribed instances. So in lemmy u need at least 1 user from ur instance to subscribe to a community for its activity to be sent to ur instance.
On mastodon all activity by a user is sent to all instances with at least one user who follows that user. So if nobody on ur instance follows a specific user then their content will never show up on ur instance. Its a difficult problem to solve as u can’t just send all activity to all instances cos that will overload most instances. Their are relays that relay activities from its member instances to other instances but as u would expect the larger the relay the more content u must deal with on ur instance and u can get overloaded pretty quick.
The whole point of federation is to send activities only to instances that need them as not to force everyone to have the entire fediverse on their server and handle and activities from the entire fediverse (one of the reasons bluesky federation doesn’t work for small instances).
Year of the Linux desktop?
This is what I do its excellent.
This sounds like a problem I’m too third party client to understand
Really? I wasn’t aware of that I guess it depends who’s maintaining the packages. I would assume devs release a package for whatever distro they are running then flstpak team packages that release along with that distro runtime and publish a flatpak. I assume it would be automated build pipelines so I’m sure u could find a beta release branch if u want newer version on flatpak.