Pyra without decent web browser?


All commercial websites I tested work nice, smooth and fast! It's a real pleasure :happy:
Needless to say that you can't expect same performance with 50 open tabs like on a desktop environment...
 
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Thanks for the link. I do prefer firefox and the launchpad build works much better than the one in the debian official repo.
 
The one that replaces the ads with its own ones? Never tried it, I want a navigator that displays what is expected (which does not include ads at all in my case).
Well I still don't have a Pyra anyway.
You're welcome for this useless comment huh :)
 
The browser wars.... Another war of attrition
It's less about "browser wars" now, but more about http "standards" bring an utter train wreck and only getting worse, especially with Google et al trying to DRM and monetise the entire web (and passing it off as adding "security").

In an ideal world, in my opinion, no individual company should ever (have had) more than a 30 percent influence/hold on any single mainstream tech in use.
 
The Digital Services Act isn't about to do us any favors either. It too is passed under the guise of "online safety", but will mean zero tolerance for opinions that aren't mainstream-compatible. Orwell would love it.
We're living in interesting times.
 
Does Pyra support any sandboxed package managers eg snap or flatpak?
I'm a fan of this type of thing.
 
Does Pyra support any sandboxed package managers eg snap or flatpak?

Yes, no problemo.

Code:
$ sudo apt install flatpak snapd
$ sudo snap install core snap-store
$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
 
Can’t we just use that then to run newer versions of certain* software without touching the underlying os?
 
Can’t we just use that then to run newer versions of certain* software without touching the underlying os?
Thanks you added a new thing for me to test out on my copper Pyra. :happy:


flatpak + snap use lots of disk space. So I'm curious to see how much impact they have on the embedded 32GB Pyra storage.
 
I think from the 32GB the Pyra got, whe should have easely 20 gb free space, our Debian is not that big, the Image of Bookworm is 720 mb

If flatpak and snap got every package allready on your Drive, then, perhaps the 32 gb are much to small..
 
Thanks you added a new thing for me to test out on my copper Pyra. :happy:


flatpak + snap use lots of disk space. So I'm curious to see how much impact they have on the embedded 32GB Pyra storage.
The disk space is negligible when you boot from a SD/mircoSD card, I am more concerned about the performance.
If you're testing web browsers via Flatpak or Snap, can you report how they perform compared to browsers installed from the repository?

At least, we can still use Mosaic, the timeless browser.
It compiles well on the Pyra :D
 
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The disk space is negligible when you boot from a SD/mircoSD Card, I am more concerned about the performance.
If you're testing web browsers via Flatpak or Snap, can you report how they perform compared to browsers installed from the repository?

At least, we can still use Mosaic, the timeless browser.
It compiles well on the Pyra :D
Everyone forgets Lynx. :(

And if you want the best of Lynx + modern web browsers, Linux Magazine clued me into Carbonyl existing.
 
It seems flatpak gave up on armhf but I see snap on rpi4 has the latest firefox/1.22. But I share the authors concern.

Because I hate upgrading os's (since often they are forced) I have been struggling with obsolete browsers for a long time. That's why I went through the hell of compiling mozilla from source. On macs often the browser is the hair that breaks the camels back and forces you to buy new hardware. Actually I used to run vm's specifically for browsers.

A decent sandbox package manager could keep Pyra usable much longer.

I use flatpack mostly for unfortunately necessary commercial software.

$ du -sh /var/lib/flatpak/app/*|sort -h
23M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.github.AmatCoder.mednaffe
62M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu
137M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.telegram.desktop
241M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.mozilla.firefox
293M /var/lib/flatpak/app/com.spotify.Client
300M /var/lib/flatpak/app/org.chromium.Chromium
663M /var/lib/flatpak/app/us.zoom.Zoom
 
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