As far as I’m aware, no launcher (in the style of KRunner) exists which has all those features.

With some effort, you could implement a lot of this functionality using a “generic” launcher (like rofi, for example), but integrating a system tray will be close to impossible (unless you’re willing to write a program which acts as a system tray and provides those launchers with enough information to display a useful representation of the tray, could be cool).

Molly still depends on Signal’s centralized servers.

Best solution I know of currently is SimpleX, though Veilid (and VeilidChat by extension) also seem promising, though it might take a while for those to be usable.

The reason (IMO) this has languished as much as it has, is that most sites handle this fine; though I agree that it should have been fixed by now.

I don’t mind in-house encryption (the Signal protocol didn’t just appear out of nowhere either), however the latter part is worrying.

In any case, I personally don’t trust Signal or Telegram.

Telegram secret chats are e2e encrypted though

I’m not very old, but I remember as a kid my big sister would go to the local market and buy burned copies of movies still in theaters (which were usually a recording someone made of the movie in the theater).

They didn’t close Campo Sango though, and haven’t closed other studios they bought historically (like Turtle Rock, which eventually became independent of Valve again and released Back 4 Blood).

Why are we quoting each other? I remember the comment before yours. I made it. Idiot.

Grow up

Here is a response without any quotes, I’m sure their ommision makes this comment much clearer:

Valve hasn’t done this.

At the end of January, Xbox fired 1900 employees:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24049050/microsoft-activision-blizzard-layoffs

It’s Phil Spencer’s fault that they released Redfall at 70$. It is his fault that he promised the game will be polished. It is his fault people who paid for the DLC will never get it.

He also closed Tango, which made a critically acclaimed game.

They list something that every single large game company does: buy studios, move talent around, close the old studios.

Not every large game company acts this way. This is also not what he did at all - he didn’t restructure the studios after buying them, he closed them and laid off their employees.

They also talk about how he claims to champion preservation and emulation, something we all agree with.

He’s a known liar (just a year ago he claimed Arkane will continue to polish Redfall, now Arkane Austin has closed before giving people DLC they already paid for)

Phil Spencer has been the head of Xbox for a decade, a decade where Xbox consistently got worse. The only smart decision they made this entire time is Game Pass IMO.

If they don’t want to pay to fix it, they can just block the user agent (or just fix their website, this issue is affecting them so much mainly because they don’t cache).

Relying on the competence of unaffiliated developers is not a good way to run a business.

Why should they? The users of a free software project aren’t entitled to anything.

If users want to dictate priorities they should become developers, and if they can’t/won’t at least try to support them financially.

Too bad its proprietary

I’m sure an affected website could have paid a web developer to find a solution to this issue in the past 7 years if it was that important to them.

Soulseek supports searching and it’s very simple to share, but it’s almost exclusively used for sharing music.

They also state their opinion that the issue “should have been prioritized for a faster fix… Don’t you think as a community-powered, open-source project, it should be possible to attend to a long-standing bug, as serious as this one?”

It’s crazy how every single entity who has any issue with any free software project always seems to assume their needs should be prioritized.

The original comment gave the example of calling a federated user a dipshit for saying something like that.

Also, while I agree that someone who knows little should ask questions, it is very common for them to assume they know enough.

Someone who knows little about politics commenting “Vote blue no matter who!” is not interacting in bad faith, and does not deserve to be called a dipshit.

You do realize replying something like “You’re a dipshit” literally adds nothing to the discussion right? Downvoting a dumb comment instead of replying does not make you a coward, it just reduces the amount of pointless comments in a thread.

Maybe if you took the time to actually engage with them instead of insulting them and moving on you’d be able to change their mind.

In my experience, Debian unstable has been less stable than “pure” rolling release distributions. Basing on unstable also means you have to put up with or work around Debian’s freeze periods.

The situation is improving, just very slowly. Solutions are slowly being figured out to various usability issues created by sandboxing (for example, there has been discussion for a while regarding how to solve the game controller issue I mentioned), which will allow the more user-friendly solutions to be more hardened by default. Also, even though I have many issues with Flatpak, with a bit of configuration (even graphically with Flatseal) it can effectively sandbox many programs already, as long as you use Wayland.

On the MAC front, there is a 3rd party project (apparmor.d) that’s trying to build a portable set of AppArmor profiles for all common programs/environments on desktop Linux. As you might imagine this is a huge project and far from done, but it’s actually surprisingly complete already.