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Okay, so there's a technicality. I could also install Firefox from the Android subsystem's Google Play app, but it would be the phone/tablet version, not a desktop/laptop version, which means the UX, UI, & add-on ecosystem are significantly restricted.

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@arielmt assuming the distribution you're on has manpages and the software to render them installed by default!

The only reason I use flatpak at all is because, in Google's tightly controlled walled garden of ChromeOS, it's literally the only way to install Firefox.

Mozilla Support, "Run Firefox on ChromeOS": support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/r

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The flatpak "app" system has always felt like amateurish techbro crap to me, but today I finally put my finger on why.

The website is loaded with how-tos for installing it & packaged applications ("apps"), but there's not even a hint of how to maintain, manage, remove, or update them.

It has a set of halfway decent manpages that *do* say how to do these things, but there's literally zero reference! You have to just know they exist, & you have to just know `man flatpak` is how you start.

Furries:
- understand that it can be challenging to recall names/faces.
- often get custom badges made with their name and cute art, to facilitate recognition.
- will sometimes wear those badges to things like large house parties.

More people should be like furries.

Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables...

Arabic is one of the globe's most gorgeous languages. Its speakers wrote some of the finest prose. Yet it is also precise enough to be used by scientists and mathematicians. It is decorative enough to be bas relief in the world's most incredible buildings. Spoken, it is poetic, yet capable of an easy wit. As calligraphy, it's art. 1/3 of the stars in the sky have Arabic names.

But some clod can just breeze into CNN and call it ugly and not be challenged, and even invited back to do it again.

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Casual racism against Arabs 

Some Israeli defender was on the news and dropped in that Arabic is a hateful sounding language and Jake Tapper was just like (nodding with interest)

We do this with China all the time too. Be as racist as you want to official enemies

Maybe the real treasure is the microplastics we ingested along the way...

Ransomware:

I have installed an unlicensed copy of Oracle Database somewhere on your network. Give me five Bitcoins by the end of the week or I will inform Oracle's legal department.

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