Bilb!

The danger and the stakes are not what is being compared, though. It’s a perfectly good analogy.

I couldn’t say why, but many of them freak me out. I don’t tend to demand that someone kill it, but I feel the “ew.”

But the AUR is (was?) the much tauted reason to use it! I had a pretty bad time with Arch and its derivatives, but I wonder if Arch + flatpak + distrobox (steamOS?) could be great these days. Probably.

Man, I tried Sabayon twice (both a long time ago) and quickly regretted it both times. In my experience, it was extremely fragile. I had used Gentoo at the time and had a mostly good time with it, and wanted to try something that set it up easily.

I wish donald duck was my wife so bad

Yes! I’ve done both. I played Castle of the Winds in DOSBox running Windows 3.11. What have you used it for? If it’s Castle of the Winds, we’re officially friends. Otherwise, eh

I’ve used a windows version of Wine to play a 16 bit Windows game before, so it’s already kind-of a thing.

I wonder what Unidan is doing these days.

Sometimes a decent FOSS app is created with no income flow, true, but I don’t think anything on the scale of a web browser/rendering engine has ever.* All of the sizable FOSS projects I can think of have the support of one or more sponsors who have an an interest in seeing the project succeed. I’m thinking of Linux, Chromium, AOSP, Debian, KDE, Blender, and the like. About 85% of commits to the Linux kernel are from full-time employed corporate contributors.

Lemmy gets some sponsorships I think, but from non-profits. Besides that, it is supported by donations, and seemingly not enough. I was a regular donator, but I’ve since fallen on hard times and cannot help right now. They deserve better, honestly. My point is, we take nice FOSS projects for granted, and I don’t think we really have any right to complain if they go away or wind up driven primarily by corporate interests. The work is not free.

*Come to think of it, I think KHTML, the rendering engine on which Blink and Webkit are ultimately based was started as a volunteer project. After it became a viable starting point for Apple and Google though, it was forked and primarily developed by employees of Google and Apple. I guess that’s a similar story as Linux, but without the fork.

Unless I’m mistaken, this is just a matrix server. If you were using Dendrite, you wouldn’t say “hey let’s try dendrite,” you would say “let’s try Matrix, here’s my server.”

At least, that’s how I would say it. Server software choice is details they would not care about and would likely cause confuwusion.

Too many people are ignorant of this.

I have a belief (not based in law, just my personal feeling) that once you post something in a conversation in a public forum, you no longer have any natural right to control it. By posting it in a conversation on the public internet, you have, in a practical sense, waved any right to control it. That is a part of a conversation that belongs to the public, and you gave your comment away freely. It is public record. You cannot demand that it be forgotten or erased any more than I can demand that something I said to my friends yesterday be forgotten and erased.

If I hosted a forum, I would make it clear that this is the policy, and I would not allow people to delete comments that they posted. Edits would be allowed, but the history would be available. Deletions would only ever happen if I was legally compelled.

This all gets complicated if someone posts private information about a third party. I would rapidly delete such posts and ban such users. The third party never consented to anything, so it’s not the same.

Beast is more attractive as a beast than as a pretty boy human. That’s my unsolicited opinion, and you have to be nice to me because it’s pride month.

For what it’s worth, I’m with you. /s is for cowards! YOLO that shit 😎

Oh, well you see with Vaultwarden what you do is just don’t update it until you’re forced to because the clients stop being able to talk to it. ;)

I got it up and running in about 10 minutes just yesterday, but that’s probably because I had already spent a couple of days learning how to use quadlets and getting my remote access scheme figured out.

Yeah, I hear you. There’s really no practical difference between saying 174cm and 17.4dm I think from the American perspective where 6ft is a sort of benchmark for adult male height, so psychologically that 6 looms large. CMs obviously work fine, but I’m trained to see the bigger 17 as a sort of benchmark/goal. None of that is healthy or rational, though.

Maybe it’s easier to say “Oh, they’re 17dm” or “15dm” and get a general sense for the height of a person. When you need to get precise, it’s not useful.

Right, I almost, and probably should have, mentioned that. They use a different, parallel system that is also not available to the kind of alternative devices people on this site are interested in.

This is misunderstanding the problem, I think. This is not a weakness in GrapheneOS due to being an AOSP derivative, it’s a weakness imposed by Google on all alternative OSes whether they are AOSP derived or not. They present a scannable code that will only be cleared if you scan it with Google’s Android.

Unless there’s something else going on here. Either way, anger should be directed at Google, not GOS or its users. (annoying though they might sometimes be ;)

There are some other features only in pro, like Hyper-V for instance.

If you don’t play some of the big multiplayer games, definitely.