Want more GNU in Linux, so Guix, btw. पूंजीपति will be sent to corrective labour camp.

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  • Are you Marathi by any chance? Jhinga or the alternative word Kolambi or Sungott is what I hear from Marathi or Konkani people, and not people from the North. I’ve never heard of river prawns growing in India, to be frank.

    BTW, we also make Mangalorean yetti biriyani over here in the South. It is nothing like the Hyderabadi biriyani with it’s Mughlai influence. You could consider it as more of a casual biriyani.



  • Everything she makes is really good, be it native Tuluva food like Yetti gassi (prawn gravy), Bondas sukka (dried calamari masala with coconut flakes) or Padengi-Bajeel (Pressure-cooked moong beans porridge with jaggery and coconut flakes, alongside flat rice, coconut flakes and chilli), or casual Indo-fusion like Bombay grilled sandwich (Indo-American), Veg Manchurian (Indo-Chinese dish) or Hakka noodles (Indo-Chinese dish). She even tried making creamy garlic pasta with penne, although with inadequate cooking appliances, and it was quite nice.













  • Snaps are a default no, obviously. Most of the points by Flatkill still hold true to this day. Apart from that, I have my own set of disagreements which I’ll not be talking about - basically, stuff like reproducibility, storage space, inconsistent permissions, inconvenient configurations, outdated runtime - well, you get the point, so I’ll not be expanding on that.

    My primary disillusionment towards Flatpak has to do with how people with shared backgrounds and vested corporate interests have taken over open-source - in this particular case, I am talking about Big Tech. It’s almost as if the space for a community-developed organization is hijacked by them - by them occupying core positions of the organization.

    These organizations do not follow a horizontal approach to decision-making, they often come up with decisions without consulting folks that aren’t within their direct circle, and worst, when they’re held in a tight-spot, they can evade any criticism by appealing to authority - that they’re the maintainers/contributors, and they know what’s best for the project’s future.

    The same is true about funding - it is always through members of the company that they’re indirectly funding these projects, that I can’t help but feel that the “community”, aka the outsiders never had the chance to be a part of the decision-making.

    Flatpak may have it’s share of poor features that can be fixed - sand-boxing can be improved by using permissive containers that allow particular shell variables, installation will throw dialogue, informing the users beforehand about the permissions these apps will need, developers may be forced to use proper run-times, and perhaps, some of the runtime be eliminated to use system dependencies, thereby complying with storage compliance - I don’t know, but it could be fixed. But this invisible, unspoken flaw in the governance? No way.


  • velox_vulnus@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlFlathub has passed 2 billion downloads
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    With the largest group of people graduating with an engineering degree, you’re telling me they don’t use Linux? Just check the stats at NSF for the number of degrees awarded in S&E.

    India alone has 14% in the desktop market share for Linux. China’s market share is not easy to tell, thanks to the firewall, but 90% of government computers use Kylin and other Chinese-developed distros.


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    Wrong, India and China has the highest number of engineering grads. From NSF:

    India awarded 2.5 million S&E first university degrees in 2020, followed by China (2.0 million) and then by the United States (900,000).

    With a younger population that is more than ever, a need for laptop would be in the highest demands. In fact, if you check the desktop market share for Linux in India, it is the highest, at around 14%.