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?

It’s not very sophisticated and has no error handling, but I only run it locally…

#!/bin/bash
echo -e "\n...READING NEWS...\n"
yay -Pw
echo -e "\n...UPDATING MIRRORS...\n"
sudo cp /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist.backup
sudo reflector --country Germany --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
echo -e "\n...UPDATING REPO PACKAGES...\n"
sudo pacman -Syu
echo -e "\n...UPDATING AUR...\n"
yay -Syu
echo -e "\n...ORPHANED PACKAGES...\n"
pacman -Qtd
echo -e "\n...PACKAGES NOT IN ARCH REPO...\n"
pacman -Qm
echo -e "\n...NEW CONFIG FILES...\n"
sudo find /etc -name *.pac*
echo "DONE 😊"

#Dependencies: yay, reflector, rsync, noto-fonts-emoji 

I do.

Every time I install a package, or once a month.
I use a script that shows new Arch news messages, updates the mirrorlist with the fastest mirrors in my country, updates repo packages, updates aur packages, then prints created .pacnew and .pacsave files as well as orphaned and dropped packages.

This, but unironically.

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

What the fuck is “fruit essence”?

novaramedia

“Today should be a day of celebration for supporters of democracy and human rights worldwide, as Gazans break out of their open-air prison and Hamas fighters cross into their colonisers’ territory. The struggle for freedom is rarely bloodless and we shouldn’t apologise for it.”

– Rivkah Brown, commissioning editor at Novara Media, on the morning of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel

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.

Though these days, you might get to recommend Linux anyway by saying “you should use wsl2.”

You really really shouldn’t. It sucks in a number of ways neither Windows nor Linux do by themselves.

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.

Yes, in the same way that all biologists are owned by Monsanto and all computer scientists are owned by Microsoft.

What you need is service that guarantees citizenship. And Dina Meyer in a group shower.

I daily drive an Android phone without any Google services or apps.

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.

My friends call me “Please fix my printer”.

I bet it’s North Korea!