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Nintendo doing the smarting

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While it's weird that they waited so long,

I think they are afraid emulation on steam deck gains traction.

Since it runs Linux, you could install and run Nintendo games on a competitor portable console that has a lot more games and a more powerful hardware

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"[GNU/]Linux being secure is a common misconception in the security and privacy realm."

First thing I read and it's not even true.

Flatpak's permissions are also far too broad to be meaningful. For example, many applications come with the filesystem=home or filesystem=host permissions, which grant read-write access to the user's home directory

You can absolutely have more narrow permissions

For example, by default, Firefox only has read/write access to xdg-download and mpv only has read access to host and write access to xdg-pictures (to save screenshots). Discord by default only has read access to xdg-videos and xdg-pictures and write access to xdg-download.

I'm not even going to waste time reading the rest...

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Is firefox with ublock or brave better in terms of resource consumption?

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Not sure if it’s an official feature somewhere

I'm not sure either, but after reading the add-on description, it seems like it might be.

Unlike the "The Great Suspender" extension, this extension uses the native method for discarding tabs, which means that even if the extension is removed or the browser crashes, your browser will automatically restore everything for you.

It appears to me that the add-on simply allows for more control over which tabs are automatically or manually discarded, and it also indicates if a tab was discarded or not

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"[GNU/]Linux being secure is a common misconception in the security and privacy realm."

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As far as I know, the only possible way to escape the sandbox is to use flatpak-spawn --host and add --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Flatpak but I only ever seen that on apps like vscode.

Imo, the point of flatpak's sandbox is to give an extra layer of protection in case of security vulnerabilities. Permissions exist so apps can still work as they're supposed to. It's not a virtual machine isolated from the rest of the system where you can or should install malware.

Besides, the manifest is public and needs to be approved to be on the default repository.

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Two moods

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That used to be true a few years ago, but now games just works without any tinkering from my experience. Except some online games due to kernel level anti cheats (like Fortnite and Valorant), but I prefer single player games anyway