I have friends that daily drive BSD, but I never have. For me it’s because Open Source is already a small field, and Linux solves all the problems I have, while also having the most mind-share, focus, and community. I want it to be FOSS for ethics, which Linux is, but otherwise don’t need anything that BSD offers, so there’s no reason for me to attempt anything more. If there’s even one compatibility problem, it’d be one too many for no benefit.

That having been said, I do donate money every month to one of them, because I like that they exist. So that’s probably weird…

I’ve encountered it very little, but when I encounter it it’s because I try to do something and it doesn’t work. So I check the permissions with ls -l, and it all seems reasonable. Huh, this should work. Try again, nope. Hmm. 20 minutes of trying random variations, strange results. Oh fuck, is this SELinux? Shit. Where do those configs exist again? How do I configure that? Google “SELinux cheat sheet” hmmm, I don’t have enough context to use that, Google “SELinux getting started”. Read tutorial, try to skim just enough to figure out what’s going wrong for me.

So I don’t hate it, I just haven’t ever had a use for it, but it has surprised me in a bad way before and cost me a lot of time and confusion, but I’ve never spent the time getting familiar because I’ve never had a use for it. And it comes up rarely enough I never remember anything about it by the time it bites me. I can’t even recall now what I was trying to do the last time I bumped into it.

It’s nice of this poster to ignore the $181m spent on “other projects” and conclude this is some kind of scam. If we include the Linux Kernel with the other projects part, that’s about 67%, or two thirds, of their expenses are paying for various and assorted open source projects. Among them the kernel. So if you’re a “cash and cash alone” person, then 2/3rds of your money is still going as cash to software projects.

And if we include things like community tooling and project services, which may help a project in ways beyond just cash that becomes about 78% in total, or over three quarters.

That’s pretty good, I think, but to each their own.

Maybe I’m confused about the current state of things, but I thought we weren’t 100% sure Will Shakespeare was even a real guy, or a single guy, but now we’re testing residue off the inside of a clay pipe we know was his and attributing plays to that?

“Hmmm, I’m going to write you a prescription for 75% more RGB LED backlighting”

If you self host it, yes. But Snikket the company will host the server for you for a fee if you’d prefer to just sign up online and download an app from an app store.

Not the same as any of these, but I always felt Spyro had a beauty to it, even if it is a bright and colourful one.

He was teaching her to count O’s, and she was learning the big numbers that day. Luckily her toes were close at hand.

He was removed, not because he was bad, but because he was bad and unnecessary.

If the monster world went into a blackout, he’d have been out and operating the child-reactor with full government support. Only because Sully found a new, compatible, source of power was the ethics of the old system finally up for debate. Slavery is only allowed to be abolished after it stops being “necessary” for the economics of the system.

And yeah, it’s a movie, so he got taken away in cuffs before the new power source was operationalized, but that’s just a bit of movie magic 😉

I’ve been using a printer called 4barcode for a while. It has an apt package with ppd cups drivers in it, and it works well.

I don’t know the exact model, and I think the brand of the printer might not even be 4barcode and it’s just a different “brand” but really they’re all the same?

That having been said, the one I have once failed to work with a brand of labels on a roll I bought in a pinch, but the fanfold ones I’ve been using from Amazon work well.

I run stock Ubuntu Gnome on one of my machines, and I have no idea what you’re talking about with “its way is to emulate an iPhone”.

I’m not a fanboi or anything, and it has a few things I think it could do better at, but it’s a pretty normal DE as far as I can tell?

There’s an app I’ve never used but heard of: https://adresilo.com/

I think the way it works is that it queries Google’s API for locations, proxies through them, but it can’t show them on a map due to Terms of Service, but it can provide links that will then open in any map app of your choice.

The app is open source, but the DB is obviously Google. So it’s trying to blur that line of providing Open Source functionality, and using Open Source maps, with the practicality of “Google has all the stuff” UX problem.

At least I think…

You might actually like Taler, it’s fundamentally different from blockchain based systems, to the point of being a cryptocurrency only in the technical sense, but not having any of the properties people associate with that word culturally.

Taler doesn’t use any kind of proof of work, and so doesn’t consume excess power or other resources, at least not more than, like, visiting any normal webpage. It’s also not decentralized, and only partially anonymous, so I can acquire money anonymously and no one can trace the money I got to a particular spend, but the only place I can reasonably spend it has to be registered to the centralized issuer and is firmly not anonymous. And the only things they can do with the tokens they receive is redeem them, which means there’s no place for tax evasion because the issuing authority can track every dollar the registered vendors redeem with them. And you can’t really transfer money from random person to person, so there’s no black market opportunity, etc.

So basically the only thing Taler “protects” is that the buyer’s identity can be anonymous, but any vendor accepting Taler must not be and are highly trackable.

These are things I actually don’t like about Taler, but we may be on opposite sides of a few issues, which is fair.