snapd is in debian repos so you can add it if you want, and then also integrate it into kde’s discover.

if you haven’t added the flathub repository to your new debian kde desktop install, discover will only show you packages from debian’s repositories that were automatically configured during installation… even if you’ve added the flatpak ‘backend’ from inside discover–flathub still has to be added to your sources (see step 3 in link above).

once you have multiple sources of an application (for instance, ‘vlc’), discover will add a ‘sources’ pulldown (top right, next to the ‘install’ button) where you can choose debian system package or flatpak (or snap, if configured).

which source you use is entirely up to you. on my own debian desktop, i usually stick with debs if it has what i’m looking for, as i’ve chosen debian and have accepted their pace at which new software is added. if i wanted ‘bleeding edge’ i would have installed something else entirely on it. but you can certainly go ‘all flatpak’ if you wanted to.

cookies are just text. they could literally contain an ip address or a hash or other identifier that refers to one.

spotify can’t directly obtain data from a linkedin cookie. but ad networks and other ‘third parties’ could provide ‘targeting’ or even identifying information to them.

use a different browser profile, or better–an entirely different browser–for vpn browsing.

already not looking forward to the next updates on a few systems.

we could have had bob or clippy instead of ‘cortana’ or ‘copilot’

you mean, doin’ what microsoft and their ai ‘partners’ do to others?

Also, as Microsoft appears to have recognized scraping for AI training as a problem, are you seizing your own scraping activities on public code and the larger web or is this a case of double standards?

that is not an acceptable ‘solution’ and opens up an entirely different and more significant can o’ worms instead.

i’ve hit it many times so far… even as quick as the second page view (first internal link clicked) after more than a day or two since the last visit (yes, even with cleaned browser data or private window).

it’s fucking stupid how quick they are to throw up a roadblock.

besides these–which i occasionally use the oem option with… i just put endless on one here, it also sets up the initial user during the first boot after install.

the oem install option that is available with ubuntu and some ubuntu-based ones lets you do some initial extra package installs and stuff, though. you run a command linked on the oeminstall desktop when you’re finished with your ‘preinstall’.

it’s only “embattled” because the far right sees fema as ‘handouts’ that often benefits some ‘brown’ people, and are quite vocal about their hate and disgust for the agency and ‘those people’.

mr. hamilton got the gig after criticizing “biden’s” fema. makes sense. donvict loves those who hate biden or obama or “the libs”.

starts work, sees what the agency really does, how it works, who it helps–realizes that “hey, this shit’s important work”.

tells others what he’s learned.

gets immediately fired for not blindly following the project 2025 playbook of chopping fema off at the knees and privatizing what’s left.

translation: “lol. like anyone’s gonna listen to us anymore.”

hate is a powerful thing. and it’s what binds them together.

they just wanna ‘ask’? and not do the actual dirty work (and unpopular–a majority of that state supports same-sex marriage) of writing and passing a state law that conflicts with obergefell, and then defending that law as it is challenged up the judicial ladder?

face planted right into a big steaming pile.

and the dumb-as-fuck lardass can’t get out of it without stinking of his own filth and shit–so he wants everybody to, yet again, just forget the stupid shit he’s done.

losing money on a sure thing would be totally on brand for donvict & co.

they aren’t ‘defending’ mifepristone–they want the case dismissed, as in no ruling.

they’re looking at a probable ruling against the current magat agenda and they don’t want that on the books so that the brain worm can just ctrl-z and undo its approvals.

making-up shit to fit the narrative is what they do.

passing the buck, straight from the narcissist prayerplaybook.

two dolls instead of 30 dolls

so stuff is gonna cost 15x more by december? i can hardly wait. better go reserve my new home site down by the river now–so i can get a good spot under some cover.

if it walks like a duckcult…
talks like a duckcult…
acts like a duckcult…
dresses like a duckcult…
oppresses minorities like a duckcult…
suppresses the vote like a duckcult…
squashes free speech like a duckcult…
censors the press like a duckcult…
detains and arrests the opposition like a duckcult…
denies science and facts like a duckcult…
defies the law like a duckcult…
rewrites history like a duckcult…

guess what… it’s a fucking cult.