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Depends on the country. Some only criminalize depictions where children were exploited or harmed, so the cartoon stuff might get a pass despite being nasty. AI images I'd imagine it might be hard to prove they aren't real children and at that point might be treated like a robbery with a fake weapon or selling fake drugs (still chargeable as the real thing in most places)

This should be an actual game. I'd play it!

A lot of stuff beyond the top distros is already being maintained by people who may not be affiliated with the underlying product, but even then it doesn't need to be painful.

I could have one system running a base OS and a hundred subs of compatible architecture running under VM's or a chroot for the purpose of automated builds, updates, and packaging.

IMO, I'd still rather see common software maintained as packages on the more popular distros, and then a flatpak or whatever to cover bases on the rest.

Yeah. Great as an option, but not when the become the only option like it seems Ubuntu is going

If those updates are security patches etc then in most cases that might be a good thing.

AFAIK you can still use revert to roll back to a previous version if needed.

I hope the opposite, because I bloody hate how everything is a huge package. I don't want to download a bunch of massive packaged apps just because one library needed to be updated, or have one packaged app with a persistent security flaws because - despite me updating the library in my system - it's still running an older version.

I hate that shit doesn't work because the monolithic container conflicts with local security policies (for example, when I couldn't use separate browser profile directories).

Everything is huge now and while drives are bigger these apps are taking way more then their fair share

I hate running "mount" to see my partitions and seeing a dozen freaking snaps.

It may be a useful solution for a few key apps - similar to the "portable apps" on Windows but I don't want everything to be a damn snap and personally wish I had more choice as to what was (but in make cases they've supplanted native packages entirely).

They're back? When did that happen?

That somewhat makes sense to me. If for example you're into cute animal pictures, then there could be a few ways of it

a) have cats, dogs, etc be a sub-category of "cute animals" and you can either subscribe to the individual categories or a sub-category (or possibly unsubscribe from a specific sub-category if you for example don't like cute rodents). A "tree" view for nested subs comes to mind

b) the hashtag-like format where stuff is tagged to multiple categories but isn't subject to the character limits of Mastadon etc (and better handles threads)

c) Reddit style where it's discrete subs but with the ability to cross-post from one to another

(or some combination of the above)

Or just use a model that slips over the original caps