An astronaut’s laptop running Windows is obviously not what’s controlling the rocket.

Or a completely made-up bullshit answer that just wastes your time.

I meant applications not bundled with the distro, then.

Well, app just means application, and applications are just programs. Almost everything on your computer is a program, including core parts of your operating system.

If you mean third party applications, then sure, you could use your computer without them.

Define app

I’m still getting used to the UI update of 2.8

i’ve never had noticeable lag

I think you misread ‘nagging’ as ‘lagging’ in my comment

Yeah, the branding is definitely ‘meh’ at best, but even worse, in my opinion, is the tight integration with the whole Muse ecosystem and MuseHub thing (and the default download on the website being the MuseHub-based installer too) and built-in cloud storage crap. It just feels wrong to have an open source application integrated so tightly into all their proprietary services all the way through. Just installed the latest version 3.7.5, and I was surprised at how much nagging there was, on both the website and in the application itself.

But other than the whole Muse stuff, Audacity 4.0 looks really awesome in terms of UI and UX. And at least there is a non-MuseHub installer and you can choose not to use their other stuff, and say no to the telemetry…

It’s currently my backup comms plan for my wife, as fell as a few friends and family

What kind of range are you getting between you? I assume lots of people are using it in your general area then?

Snaps are basically the only reason I don’t use Ubuntu.

I do value my adblockers very highly, and I blocks ads in the browser, via DNS on my home network, and on my rooted phone too. Every time I access the internet on a device that isn’t mine, I’m blown away with how bad it is.

There’s still a lot of filament sitting in the Bowden tube between your sensor and the hotend.

Maybe, but I’m using Gluetun’s API too (which is very badly documented), and it seems to me some of the endpoints only work for OpenVPN. But I’ll have to look into it properly.

Well that’s annoying. When using it with Gluetun, I’m not sure I can even use Wireguard there.

It also depends how humid it is where you live.

Dumps with complete page edit history can be downloaded too, as far as I can see, so no need to crawl that.

valid reasons for not wanting the whole database e.g. storage constraints

If you’re training AI models, surely you have a couple TB to spare. It’s not like Wikipedia takes up petabytes or anything.

Yeah, but organized into as many threads as there are issues/PRs, so it’s exactly as daunting as the same list as viewed on GitHub/project/issues (because it is exactly the same content).

Surely, dedicated tools for managing/tracking issues give you better tools for triaging, filtering, planning and such, compared to a mail client…

Why would anyone crawl Wikipedia when you can freely download the complete databases in one go, likely served on a CDN…

But sure, crawlers, go ahead and spend a week doing the same thing in a much more expensive, disruptive and error-prone way…

Ah, makes sense.