I’m a developer, so my chances are pretty good. But I take your point.
Even if I weren’t, there’s enough software options out there that I don’t have to pick between paying for proprietary software and living with abandonware.
So I think the need for this security is exaggerated.
Of course. I used proprietary software for a long time. Having things I relied on get abandoned got old, but it worked.
I just expect more from most of my software, now.
I’m happy to pay for software, but I want more than just permission, I want long term security that my investment in the tool will last.
If IntelliJ would open source their oldest versions, I would make my boss buy me a copy of the newest version every year.
And to every other bidder, too, of course.
I can explain this chart: SO and AI both give me questionably useful example code, but AI isn’t as much of an asshole about it as the average SO user.
The issues should be central, but it would be nice for my reputation as a contributor to migrate between instances.
What now?
Some options:
Ooh. Thanks. Today I learned about RePebble. If it doesn’t deliver, there’s still also Gadget Bridge (connect most devices fully locally) and PineTime (another spiritual successor to the Pebble).
I’m just learning this is an option, but Matrix Signal Bridge.
Best I can tell from the documentation, we add the Matrix server bot to a signal account, and it relates messages between the two platforms.
Welcome!
Let’s see, what useful welcomes advice can I share…?
Gowron has any remaining relationship with the original character, but I guess he’s one of our mascots, now.Is there a way on lemmy to have small communities new post always come up on the top of your feed?
Choosing “all/new” gets the job done.
And many Lemmy clients have more options with additional cleverness to get a feed with a mix of fresh and familiar.
It’s worth pointing out (to communities thinking about moving) that there’s nothing algorithmically suppressing new content here.
Getting (and staying) noticed is way easier, here.
Would you settle for a meme about a character from Star Trek installing Linux on something?
I kid. We’re growing. But I agree, we could spend less energy on then.
They mostly ban our accounts when we do, but I don’t mind. I like to tell people when the party has moved, if they seem cool.
Don’t worry, I’ll fix it all with my unchecked political influence once I earn my first billion.
(This is sarcasm.)
Ah…ah…ah…ach-<no one should be allowed to bomb hospitals>-choo!
Welcome!
In case you’re very new, I should mention something about this place…
We have the best Star Trek memes, here…
Well, the most anyway…
Okay not the most…
But our devotion to Star Trek memes is both adorable and worrying.
Flippers because we’re penguins because we love Linux?
We’re not going to live down that time we held a guy at gunpoint in Grand Theft Auto to help him consider switching to Linux, are we?
Welcome to the party!
Yes. This hurts the GrapheneOS project. It won’t stop the project, but it makes their work harder.
We’ve had this fear about Unix and various database engines, in the past. But we managed.
I would welcome a utility that makes it easy to find donate links for my software packages, based on my Apt, Flatpak, and F-Droid package lists.