Search for "how to install Firefox in Arch". Snapstore page which asks you to first install snap from AUR, and then install Firefox through Snap is the second entry, I kid you not!

And they have same pages for Fedora erc.

This predatory behavior is to try and get any potential new Linux users to use their crapstore instead of their distro's package is disgusting and malicious.

It makes less sense since extensions actually ran on Android, e.g. via Nightly and creating your own list of exceptions. Also if you downgrade and install in an old Fennec version, extension will continue to function if you then update to the latest.

I think the move was an attempt to create a walled garden. But for whatever reason, they have now decided against it. Thank goodness.

My goodness that's awesome. I never understood why they locked it down in the first place about a year ago. What changed?

This is a case where the class is led by a moron. That person should be reported.

Piracy for the students was justified because they had no other option. But outside of this school, if I were you and I needed the software again, I'd definitely use Octave without question. (Or Python if I'm willing to learn something new.)

The point is, if you have free and open source alternatives, use them. You'll be better off.

This is the kind of things I like to hear!

Are you sure the distances are not swapped?

I certainly wouldn't think possibly badly written and indexed docs without crowd sourced helpfulness indicator where you may or may not find your answer is 1/4 miles, while a concise highly upvoted answer in stack overflow is 21 miles.

I don't need an AI helper for my OS, thank you. (What I need is to drop the push on snap.)

With moves like this, they are really foreshadowing what Windows has become (who ironically is finally dropping Cortana now).

How do we know that Fediverse will be any different? After all if it is a law and you get a legal subponae, you comply with it.

I hate that they also SEO'd the hell out of major search engines to show snap setup and installation instructions when anyone searches for installing a package. E.g. "arch install firefox" leads to https://snapcraft.io/install/firefox/arch which is downright dishonest marketing.

And snap has other issues, such as it's very badly implemented. No sane person wants to see 100s of lop devices mounted on lsblk all the time.

Just like YouTube is a left wing cesspool with cancel culture?

Lemmy is also ad free. Love that.