Agreed. It’s not for me. But I gotta respect the game. They do a great job making a pretty UI in a world where everything is UI-by-engineer.

I’ve had to kind of strongarm employers a couple times to provide me with a non-Macbook so I could put Linux on it. But usually in my job I can choose what I run.

It was fun! Not only do you have this new-fangled OS to just fuck around with, but it gives you more access to the system and you can actually learn how it works? Amazing.

Eventually it just became so ingrained in my personal workflow that I wouldn’t be able to function without it.

If you’re primary interface to your computer is a shell, then why not do this in a shell too? You likely already have your DE setup to handle shells. It fits within all your styling (no weridness between qt, gtk, etc).

A better question might be, why run it in a GUI? What are you actually gaining from doing that?

Dark humor becomes a coping mechanism. “Fix it, fork it, f*ck off” becomes the phrase of choice.

oooo, I like that.

There is a reason nearly every software corporation out there is allergic to GPL code, and similarly why they love MIT/BSD/Apache code. I urge you to consider why that is.

I’m well aware. Are you assuming that people using permissive licenses are somehow incapable of understanding the implication of their license choice?

Licenses do affect how software is used, that is literally the purpose of them.

You implied that I would be “contributing to something” I would object to. I’m left to fill in the gaps. Maybe be more direct in your comments.

My labor is done. I’ve already made the product. I have nothing to protect it from. Someone copying the product deprives me of nothing.

Also, you seem to be moving into another topic of controlling how software is used which is rarely ever addressed in licenses.

I’m going to continue releasing my software with a license that I deem appropriate.

For things I’m building only for myself or that I have no interest in building a community around, I couldn’t give a shit what people do with it or if they contribute back. My efforts have nothing to do with them. I’m releasing it for the remote chance someone finds it useful, either commercially or personally. Partially because I’ve benefited from others doing the same thing.

I’m not anti-copyleft, but the only time I actually care to use something like the GPL is for projects that would be obviously beneficial to have community contributions. Things that require more effort than I can put in, or that needs diverse points of views.

I use permissive licenses not because I’m a pushover, but because I really don’t care what you do with it.

I’m seeding an old movie from them and it’s gotten some traffic.

GitCoin exists and has been pretty successful in the past.

Though I suspect it’s not what you’re looking for. I don’t see bounties on their site anymore and their focus has been mostly in the crypto space.

It’s a some “trouble” to install, but it’s worth it. I spend like 2-3 days getting every little thing the way I like and then I’m set for basically the life of the hardware.

It’s my Super key. It’s used for like everything in my DE (Hyprland).

May as well just rig the house to burst into flames

Protocol-wise? I don’t know. But usually major version bumps indicate some kind of breaking change.

Doens’t look like Syncthing-Fork is on 2.0 yet. They have an RC but if you use it, you might want to be careful upgrading before they release.

I’ve been on the receiving end of these. It’s such a monumental time waster. All the reports look legit until you get into the details and realize it’s complete bullshit.

But if you don’t look into it maybe you ignored a real report…

Contributors is my favorite metric. It shows that there are lots of eyes on the code. Makes it less likely of a single bad actor being able to do bad things.

That said, the supply chain and sometimes packaging is very opaque. So it almost renders all of that moot.

People really afraid of Rust out here.

I know it’s dumb to feel sad about computers and software getting shutdown, but it feels sucky to see all my hours of hard work getting trashed without a second thought.

Sadly, something we all have to get used to. Everything we do is ephemeral and the next guy will likely have better/different ideas on how to do things.

Basically everything I’ve ever built has been torn down or somehow bastardized eventually.

Start from the install guide on the wiki. It’ll branch out fast and just follow all the links and read. If something goes wrong, check if you missed something on the wiki. It’s an amazing resource.

Also, look up your hardware on the wiki before you start.