Edit: My bad English. I tried to rephrase this reply.

But the blog post is 2 years old and not part of the application. Since then new users started using the app. Most people don’t read blog posts, if nothing big changes. Was there never a popup message, in example after a regular update, to inform about upcoming huge changes? So that people do not get surprised. The app description should have this information very clear and prominently on the top. No current user should be in a position that the app changes like this.

How did the K9 project never talked about this? Its public since 2 years or so that Thunderbird announced they are working on rebranding K9 as Thunderbird.

K9 isn’t going anywhere. It’s still K9, just rebranded and improved.

Will I be able to sync my Thunderbird accounts with K-9 Mail?

Yes. We plan to offer Firefox Sync as one option to allow you to securely sync accounts between Thunderbird and K-9 Mail. We expect this feature to be implemented in the summer of 2023.

So is this sync functionality already available? (Edit: Citation corrected)

Linus Torvalds has been sold out to big tech companies like Google and Microsoft.

Starts with such a banger…

He himself is a billionaire and no longer writes any code.

Is he though? Even if he is, didn’t he deserve it more than any other billionaire. Linux is FOSS after all and changed the world and IT dramatically. The money from Linux isn’t in his hand, but in the hands of Linux Foundation as far as I know. Linus didn’t make much money from Linux. Otherwise where is the evidence for this claim? I’m not against any evidence, I’m just against spreading false information. Also he does a lot still and maintains the project with lot of other people.

Many people, including myself, are very unhappy with his decisions, like the removal of several Russian developers from kernel maintainership status.

Ah, its about that. So anything else is not the real reason, its about the politics. I don’t know if this is justified or not, as I don’t know much about this situation.

Reading further its also the person is unhappy that C++ is not in the Kernel (but Rust got). I’m glad that people take matters in their own hand and fork if they are unhappy (regardless of any reason), but what is the point of this fork other than just being a fork? I wish that person or group good luck.

I don’t think that there is such company trying to destroy FOSS. To me its more likely that people get annoyed that companies use Open Source without paying any money to the developers who maintain it. And there are lot of places trying to integrate a way to pay for Open Source software. And I’m all for it! But it needs to be confronted upfront, maybe part of the license if that is what they want. Not like a patent troll does with after usage.

I understand why its annoying, but why licensing it this way then? It was part of the contract letting them use without requiring any payment. Also developers are not responsible for any damage the code does, as they weren’t paid at all. They are not responsible to do any work.

If this goes on, then many companies might start abandoning Open Source. Because if people start shaming them and asking to pay for something they never signed up, it could harm the FOSS world. There will be people who are not happy with the low payment and want more, because others get more too. Then fake devs jump in to steal Open Source (forking and rebranding) to just shame companies and require payment too.

No one has to pay anyone because its Open Source. Demanding it, calling out after usage is the wrong move. If someone does not want others to use the code without paying, then they need to use a license that does not allow that without a contract.

I’m all for Open Source and not against paying. But this move here seems to be wrong to me. Maybe create an eco system to pay for the software to use it, if that is what bothers you (as the one who writes and maintains the code).

But that’s not very intuitive and would make complex editing and composition very hard. And you would miss out on advanced (or even basic) editing tools built into the application. Can you make use of font? So I wonder what type of images you are creating with it. I can see how this could work with simple composition.

I forgot that Beehaw will replace the ampersand character to &. So instead copying my code you should copy it from the link above.

Inkscape 100%

I’m a non professional and have limited talent. But I designed a few logos here and there (and still do) and the best tool for that is Inkscape in my opinion. GIMP is not well suited for this task, as it lacks proper vector tools and format support. Inkscape has excellent and professional grade support with easy to use interface. Krita could be used to create logos as well, because it has vector tools and format support, but I feel like the user interface and utilities are not as good as Inkscape for this task.

Unless you are an expert in Krita, and don’t want to learn or depend on new programs, then you could stay using it for creation of icons. GIMP could be used for icons too, if you just want to create raster format icons (as opposed to vector). In that case, GIMP could be well suited for this task too.

I never used any other program to make icons, so cannot tell you about alternatives. And I have no intention or need for it anyway, because to me Inkscape is the perfect tool for that task.

Yes, it’s a simple shell function; needs to be a function in your bashrc, not a script, because cd doesn’t work like that. Just copy the function from https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/quick-start#shell-wrapper into your .bashrc:

EDIT: I forgot that Beehaw will replace the ampersand character to &. So instead copying my code you should copy it from the link above.

yy() {
    local tmp
    local cwd
    tmp="$(mktemp -t "yazi-cwd.XXXXXX")"
    yazi "${@}" --cwd-file="${tmp}"
    if cwd="$(cat -- "${tmp}")" && [ -n "${cwd}" ] && [ "${cwd}" != "${PWD}" ]; then
        builtin cd -- "${cwd}" || return
    fi
    rm -f -- "${tmp}"
}

I use yy instead single y.

I often use it to navigate into a directory, using it as a directory selector (auto cd on exit). An essential plugin to me is https://github.com/yazi-rs/plugins/tree/main/jump-to-char.yazi , to have a Vim like quick jump with f and a letter and n for next. The default f functionality to filter is now set to F, so I don’t lose that by overriding.

Still need to handle archives too. I also want to write my own plugins someday if I get to use it more often.

I’ve installed it for a while and lot of stuff work out of the box, including images in the terminal. But I did not get around to use it more often. It’s pretty good and I think its a full replacement for the usual terminal file managers, but don’t take my word for it. I previously used vifm a little bit and have no other experience.

The “asking for consent” is just a paraphrase and not meant literally. AI tools will be trained by violating the license of GPL licensed code in example. And that I was referring to as “without consent”.

Public good does not mean invitation into license violation, such as training AI models without consent.

That linked reply doesn’t explain anything. It just says “bro trust him”. Just because you and the AUR maintainer says its trustful, does not make it clear whats behind the binary blobs. It doesn’t matter what anyone says, if we can’t verify. In my opinion, its absurd calling others absurd for not trusting the word of others.

I used Ventoy (its still on my USB stick). Its actually a pretty cool concept. Normally without Ventoy, you would flash your Linux distribution on the USB stick. And then you can boot from it, right?

Ventoy instead allows you to have a folder where you put an ISO without flashing it, and then you can boot from it by selecting in the menu. You just need to flash Ventoy once, as the base system, then you can put as many ISO files into that directory. I tested it and have 7 different Linux distributions (ranging from 1 GB to 4 GB variants) on the same USB stick, and I can boot any of them without flashing again. Replacing ISO is extremely easy, just delete it and copy a new one. Filenames does not matter, anything can be found.

But be careful in case others worked or contributed to the project as well. If you operate against their will, then it can get into the unethical part, but that depends on the context and I’m not a lawyer anyway. But if you are the only developer, then you pretty much do whatever you want, if the license of the libraries you are distributing allow it. I mean there are sometimes libraries that do not allow making money off, which would be a violation of the terms of its license, if you sell it with your program.

Then you can do whatever you want with it. You can publish it under different licenses or charge money on one platform and not charge any money on another. Its all up to you and its legally right and ethical. Some people don’t like that you charge money for an Open Source program, but that is their decision. Its totally okay to charge money for something you created. Don’t let people dictate you how to publish and sell your own software. If someone does not like paying and supporting you, you can always point to Fdroid or the source code. Absolutely ethical.