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I don't like the sandboxing.
I don't like the enforcement of system folder structure.
Linux Standard Base is great for Linux distributions -- and as the name suggests, it's a good *base*.
But for a production environment, there are good reasons to manage projects on separate high-level disk mounts. And if other people don't like that, that's fine -- but when they try to dictate that to me, that's an overstep. I won't put up with it.
And the sandboxing system makes a horrific mess out of the output from "df" with all the loopback devices. I literally had to get in the habit of filtering out loopback devices with grep to see the status of my real disk mounts.
I found this infuriating, and the Ubuntu commitment to Snaps was an irreconcilable difference for me. So I left for a distro that didn't do this to me.
AppImages don't do this stuff. I don't have experience with Flatpak. But I also don't really get what's wrong with just using APT.
Perhaps this makes me a curmudgeon?
🤷♂️@TerryHancock @JoannePaixa my guess is that using APT it's harder for people to sell you their proprietary apps
I'll just keep using APT from the distribution repository, thanks, and yell at those youngsters
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@aeva thank you for your answer. I came to the same conclusion as you. I host via namecheap.com so probably it is that. I looked into it and on the file manager there are files that are not mine so probably have to disable it somewhere 🙃. Thanks and keep up the good work 😉
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@Ruckbank if you're using some kind of hosting service or framework, there's probably a setting somewhere you'd have to switch off to disable visitor metrics entirely. there's always the chance that some 3rd party component might also be phoning home. tbh modern web development sounds really awful to me because of stuff like this, so i just make webpages more or less the same way i did when i was twelve XD
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@Ruckbank my webpage is static html & css that I wrote entirely by hand. when i want to add something, i modify my offline copy and then upload it to my server using ssh which copies the new files over the old ones. it's very old school. i know it keeps absolutely no visitor metrics because i never wrote any, and never will.
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@aeva hey I'm pretty new here and want to be as much privacy focused as possible I have a site (ruckbank.com ((only half finished)) ) a personal portfolio. And I can track how many people see my site on what platform and for how long and so forth.. seems like I unintentionally collect data. My question now is can you see such metrics on your site, is this "normal" and can you do anything about it?
