Tesseract is my favorite: https://tesseractui.org/post/startrek.website/40236571

“The guy”? What?

The social ecosystem around FOSS is so horribly toxic. There’s an “upper middle class” of power user that aren’t quite developers, that insult everyone with less experience, and openly harass the developers themselves. I honestly don’t know how FOSS can expand adoption as long as these people exist. They are a dual-edged sword that disincentivizes both new adoptees and long term app support.

Funny I had a 15 year account and was never once banned from anything, ever.

I swear the threadiverse is a remote island made up of 50% idealists and 50% convicts.

N64, Dreamcast and Saturn be like 😠

😂 It wasn’t until I was finished typing out my comment that I realized I was doing the classic Lemmy thing of just wholly ignoring OP and ranting about something tangential.

I may not be able to control myself but at least I can acknowledge my poor behavior!

If one wanted to avoid using for free anything that had a fascists hand in it’s creation you’d be living in a mud hut. Seriously.

I can’t help you so I’m going to rant about something not related.

Gramps is great once it’s up and running but it’s so frustrating that you cant add a person and just add a residence or wedding date or birth. Noooo, you need to create the events and locations first and then create the person and link the events to them.

Which is basically the opposite way humans think about lifetimes. I would kill for a feature of “Create new birth/wedding/etc event” from the person page.

I’m confused, Omarchy is MIT licensed. It means you can use it and keep all the rights. You are under no obligation to financially or politically support the people who contribute code and they do not get a say with how you use the software.

EDIT: Also literally posting this to a Lemmy instance…

stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?

It absolutely is!

He doesn’t owe you shit. You don’t get to harass someone because you don’t like how they spend their free time.

Big “it’s your fault I hit you” energy.

That quote is just total nonsense. There has absolutely never been a “great man theory” of open source. The concept of “forking” is a fundamental aspect of the entire philosophy.

The individuals who do stand out stand out precisely because of their humility and how little (nothing) they ask in return for their contributions.

I expect better from David Gerard. Andrew Tridgell is an S-tier developer that is getting older, and has been asking for assistance for a long time. When help never arrived he turned to LLMs and is now getting insanely harassed for this decision by the exact same people who sat back and refused to help him.

If you ask me the real slop is articles like this from people who prefer to put their energy into bitching and moaning about how someone else spends their free time. The idea that it’s ok to bully someone for the “crime” of not maintaining “critical infrastructure” for free goes against everything FOSS stands for.

You: “Now listen child, and heed my tale of woe…”

Them: “drop it one banana”

Proton is arguably the best option if you’re trying not to rely on Google, and they are slowly building a suite of apps with the goal of directly competing with Google Drive, Calendar, Sheets, etc.

I was speaking moreso culturally, but that’s a great point, too.

boooo

I stand corrected! Thanks for pointing that out.