Yes. Now if you use apt to install Firefox or Thunderbird, it will reinstall snap and install the snap versions of those programs.
If you blacklist snap, it’ll throw an error when you try to install Firefox or Thunderbird cause it can’t resolve their “dependencies”.
You’ll have to install those programs from outside of Ubuntu’s repositories, and the list of affected programs is growing.
Ubuntu’s stated goal is to eventually use snap for all userland apps.

You mean old Ubuntu?

This, but unironically.

Call Microsoft about a bug and tell me how well their support works for you.

Pretty well, actually.

Do you want cats on your desk? Cause that’s how you get cats on your desk.

I fixed a boot issue from the grub command line for the first time.

If Christians could agree with each other about what’s in the bible, history would be a lot more boring.

In Lom Stave Church, a Norwegian church from the 12th century, there are Nordic runes carved into the wooden wall, right below the ceiling.

They read:
“I was here, all the way up in the corner.”

https://www.worldhistory.org/image/12785/runes-in-the-lom-stave-church/

“If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying ‘End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH’, the paint wouldn’t even have time to dry.”

– Terry Pratchett, in The Thief of Time

The Christian explanation for this is that god doesn’t do evil, people do.
And god created people with free will to do evil. If he made people stop doing evil deeds, they would be his puppets, not free-willed humans. So he has the power to end all evil but chooses not to.

Now as for why god allows natural disasters, diseases and other tragedies to befall his creation – again, that’s just the consequence of our actions, cause a woman gave an apple to her man in the past.

Because Windows 10 Support runs out next year.

With the current Windows 11 installer this doesn’t work anymore.
But you can download the ISO, use Rufus to create a USB boot stick and disable all the requirements (account, RAM, TPM, CPU generation) in Rufus’ options. Also lets you auto-deny all telemetry options and create a user account without prompting.

My bank requires a second factor for everything done over the web instance. That second factor is either an app or a hardware token generator you have to buy seperately.

Monosodium glutamate

Transaction number. It’s a second factor for authentication of basically everything you want to do while banking online.
Most people use a phone app for it (which doesn’t reliably work on degoogled and rooted phones), but you also have the choice of buying a dedicated TAN generator device, so people without smartphones can use online banking.

Things I need from the Play Store are:

• Banking App
• Banking TAN App
  I downloaded them using the Aurora store and although they complain about missing play services on every startup, they work without them.

Things I don’t need, but use (installed in the same way and run without play services):

• App from my country’s train service
• App from my carsharing service
• Netflix
• Spotify
  I could run those in a browser, but I don’t see what the big difference would be. They run without play services.

So luckily, in Germany, you can live without Google. Nothing actually requires it.

No, the French are always revolting.

Which they did on purpose, so you can’t use the recorded song commercially.

Framework’s choice for display isn’t Linux compatible.

They really should have set the option Make_Discord_Blurry_On_Framework_Laptops to "false" in the Linux kernel.

Every car you could buy in the past 20 (probably 30) years had a computer system, because you can’t meet emissions regulations without fuel injection.
In Europe, the Dacia Sandero base model is a car that literally only comes with what’s needed to drive or mandated by law.
The previous generation was still available with wind-up windows, no power steering and no radio.

I don’t know about any offerings in the US market.