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And why they dismantle the systems they’re tasked with protecting the moment they can.

Dishonor on you! Dishonor on your cow!

They even literally have a section of the article that says they “see Fair Software as an alternative model to the free and open source software model”, and they think it’s superior because the “developers can profit”.

Newsflash: the developers usually see fractions of those cents while most of the money goes to the management and shareholders of the company that employs them. Hmm, doesn’t seem fair to me.

Also, developers can and do profit from FOSS in many ways, but the most popular models are with commercial support, SaaS offerings, and additional functionality (like providing a web interface, clustering manager or other external piece of the puzzle to solve the problem at scale in enterprise).

Like you said so succinctly: propaganda website to make rug pullers like Elastic and Hashicorp look better.

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Accurate, but not bad, yes. It turns out standardized base systems and ABIs are important to an ecosystem.

Linux tried the disorganized free-for-all for two decades, and what we got was fragmented “Ubuntu admins”, “debian admins”, “redhat admins”, “suse admins”, and a whole shitload of duplicated effort in the packaging ecosystem, only for half the packages out there to be locked to Ubuntu or RHEL. So the corporate interests, and a fair number of the community efforts, centralized their problems and solutions into a small standardized suite in Mesa+Wayland+systemd+Pipewire+flatpak, etc

The result is a ton more interoperability, a truly open ecosystem where switching your distro doesn’t mean hiring different people and using different software, and a lot more stability and maturity.

And hey, if a user or distro wants to do their own thing, they can make and own their niche, same as before. Nothing lost.

It’s been kind of wild to watch over the past 15 years or so, makes me very hopeful for the next 15.

No no you don’t understand. The evil corporate overlords abused their power to force a choice on a developer, even though that choice was objectively the right choice and the developer was throwing a tantrum.

This is truly awful. We must not let evil corporations, no matter their credentials, expertise, and decades of beneficial partnership with open source, tell immature and short sighted developers how to develop.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Didn’t Solid get sketchy too? I remember feeling obligated to migrate to Material Files.

And most decent indexers these days.

Using automation software like the Arrs, dramatically improves the UX/UI, providing another layer of filtering too.

The cost for these things isn’t terribly high. You can get three excellent indexers and a good provider for less than $12USD a month.

Disagree. I’ve never encountered malware in over a decade. Cost of should be less than the cost of a Netflix subscription.

Man, all these world class athletes from Russia have these horrible heart conditions at such young ages!

Must be something in the water…

Voice, on F-Droid.
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/

Voice has never made me want a different player, fwiw.

You may enjoy the Red Mars/Blue Mars/Green Mars series from Kim Stanley Robinson.

I confess I only got part way through because it’s more a political thriller with a sci-fi backdrop. But what I read was pretty good.

How could he make matters worse when he has the best words and the biggliest brain?!!

Just chip a couple bucks to your local instance owner! Basically the same thing, without the glitz.

Me too, but I don’t like my odds.

For second hand, I highly recommend https://serverpartdeals.com/

Person A: it’s bad that China is bad.

Person B: OMFG but USA bad too!

Like, do you actually think this is a real defense for China’s behavior? Or are you just blustering because you understand there is no defense and that hurts your world view?

LazyGit may actually be black magic from Satan to tempt programmers into sin. And to that I say: ‘where is a goat I can sacrifice to my dark lord?’