But companies like to make money default though.

Many smaller projects not explicitly supported by the vendor only make new releases and don’t also maintain a stable version.

The motivational component hits first. Developers lose the ability to push through tasks.

Eh… they lose the motivation to fix issues for free that don’t affect them. Crazy, I know.

More software I wanted was packaged for Arch than Ubuntu.

Say you rented a server at Amazon and ran your own VPN server software on it. Not that hard. The server could expose an HTTPS endpoint.

VPN software on your laptop connects to that.

From the network level, it appears you spend a lot of time connected to the same random website, hosted on some IP not owned by a VPN company.

Imagine a beach of infinite length with one lemonade stand on it.

Where do you open a second lemonade stand to maximize sales if people will buy from the closet stand?

The answer: next to the first stand. Everyone to the left of your stand will find you are the best option and everyone to the right will choose the other.

This model explains why two political parties along a spectrum can end up not too different from each other in an attempt to capture the most votes.

It’s a Roman numeral…

Yes. I used CVS when it was the best option. If I recall, CVS made it easy to check out a different version of only one fail, making it easy to put a system in an inconsistent state.

For modern VCS that’s pleasant to learn and use but won’t scale to the Linux kernel, I recommend Darcs.

A single binary, interactive commands and online help.

CVS does not even support atomic commits across four files.

You used CVS and it wasn’t a drugstore.

But you haven’t even heard the theories!

Xh is my favorite— a rewrite of httpie with some fixes.

None of the Mac web devs I know are talking about it. I’m not sure they have even heard of it.

7” is a tablet.

The post suggests that Cloudflare is donating $100k to Omarchy, but no figure is given by Cloudflare. Cloudflare’s press release reads more services in kind for an open source project— something many tech firms already offer without a check on the politics of the maintainers first.

Ubuntu has a diversity policy to explicitly welcome and encourage participation, mentioning that they explicitly honor diversity in sexual orientation among other things. It does not explicitly mention queerness.

A moderator made a bad a call. It sounds like there may have been some confusion about the word queer used as a slur vs a self-identification.

I think that’s part of it.

5% is 1-20 users.

I doubt in my city that 1 in 20 people are using desktop Linux, which means there must be higher concentrations somewhere else, maybe in some corporate fleets or university labs.

So where are the big concentrations of desktop Linux in the US? I’m not hearing more stories of big migrations happening outside of ChromeOS.

Ducks? That’s quackery.

Microsoft is recognizing that their biggest threat to MS Word is Google Docs, a product they underestimated in the beginning as being a serious choice for word processing.

Saving in the cloud means automatic backups and access from all your devices. Increasingly, people are willing to choose that over the real privacy benefits of local storage.