unwarlikeExtortion

Olive oil?

In american cars?

Clearly american mucscle cars require maple syrup!

Wait, are you telling me...

...that a device meant to disable a vehicle...

...was used to disable a vehicle?

Whould've thought?

It isn't.

All of us were laymen at one point.

I still am, for one.

What I see big apps do is treat users (both power, regular and new ones) as idiots, ruining the experience for everyone. Users should be treated reasonavly as reasonable people. This means giving them the options and opportunity to become power users, as opposed to saying "yeah, that'll never fly with them" and then you're the one to shoot all of them down preemptively.

Violentmonkey is simple enough to install as an add-on, and clicking "Get a Script" requires no coding background.

So yeah. Impossible for utter idiots.

Which users are not.

They're reasonable people like you and me, and giving them the opportunity to know about Violentmonkey and what it does should be more enough for them to use.

Discover itself doesn't care about security - it's the underlying package manager(s) that do.

Flatpak is perfectly safe IMO, as are the built-in repositories.

Both Flatpak reviewers and Debian maintaniers do their due diligence when auditing the software they distribute.

When using distros/repos which are less FOSS purist (such as Ubuntu), you could run primarily into privacy issues. When using smaller ones, the risk of a backdoor or voulnerability is a bit larger, as less eyes are on the code.

That being said, the only way to be immune to untargeted cyberattacks is to be offline, which isn't reasonable in this day and age. As long as you stick to your distro's repo and Flatpak you should be perfectly fine, save for the "normal" voulnerability or two that unfortunately slip through every now and then. You could think of this as a kind of digital "herd immunity".

As long as you don't add repos willy-nilly but think about who you trust, you should be fine.

So yeah - you can assume Flatpaks and the Debian repos are safe. They have good security policies about adding stuff in and do do their due dilligence. Though, this might change in the future, alrhough it doesn't seem likely. But for now - you'll be fine.

The only real risk is if a backdoor like the recent one in xz-utils does slip through the cracks, but then you'll be one of millions of affected machines which, while not mitigating the vulnerabilities per se will at least mean the problem will get fixed sooner once it does get found.

No, there are.

The "teachings of Jesus" seem just fine: stuff like love thy neighbour no matter what (aka don't hate minorities), let the one without sins throw rocks first (aka don't judge), throwing a tantrum at money changers (aka communist).

If only Christians looked up to the one and only character they literally believe is God in human form and try following his actions.

But alas, those Christians are "Christians", and most know more abot the teachings of Thomas Aquinas than Jesus Christ.

Seems like it could work well for upscaling Oblivion.

"The most uneditable proprietary shit in the world that's somehow nonproprietary and ultra popular but really has no right to be any of these"

Aka one of the biggest paradoxes of modern computing.

So, how do you say "J" then?

"ᒋ"?

It isn't Jason, it's Jayson. But yeah, basically indistinguishable.

And the only sane choice, as opposed to Sequel.

What will likely happen is that if you try to log into your Facebook account you will get a message that says "Your Operating System is not currently supported. Your user experience will be limited to Groups labeled "Everyone"."

That's basically it. Your personal user experience will be limited to "kid friendly" areas of the Internet. (Same with apps and games.)

Well, that makes no sense because that means that using an unvetted machine is more beneficial for groomers and predators than a vetted one. Meaning they'll be incentivized to use that, instead of some perfect system where they'd be easily trackable and held accountable.

All the "App Store" apps like Discover are merely frontends for your system's underlying package manager (apt for Debian and derivatives, dnf for Fedora and its derivatives).

The underlying package manager does the updating of packages: if you've installed it through the package manager (which is usually most stuff on an install) - it'll get updated.

Discover just gives you a nice, user-friendly way of interfacing with the package manager(s) on your system so you don't need to bother with the CLI if you don't want to (that's what "frontend" means - a nice, friendly UI for underlying services).

And yes, you can have multiple - for example apt and Flatpak. Discover and friends should update all.

Well, it is good at something. Spending money on advertising.