It’s cool, it’s probably just self extracting. For convenience!

Plus you have plenty of time to tumble once or twice while your large codebase compiles.

Yeah, this is pretty textbook selection bias.

At least you know better than socks with sandals!

If you’re color blind enough, this could be either!

I’m not saying it doesn’t suck for this person, but product market fit is a thing for open source too. If people need it they’ll use it and contribute until something better comes along. If not, your idea wasn’t the one. That doesn’t mean it’s not possible. Nearly my whole life runs on open source software, so it’s pretty clearly sustainable.

over the years, using “open source” has become an excuse to avoid paying for software

Um. Yes. And to be blunt: obviously. And in return, I give away software I create for free whether people need it or not, and try to give back in the form of contributions too. But I’ve never once given up my day job for it. Would that be nice? Maybe. But open source software is more frequently sustained by passionate people using and expanding it for their own projects and not by expecting people to pay you for your efforts when you’re likely not paying (nodejs, github, ahem) for the software you’re building it on anyway.

Can we joke about log4shell? Maybe heartbleed?

A few days of my pain in exchange for months of glory and beyond.

Can this power be learned?

Well my owner is definitely getting his money back or starting a class action suit for false advertising.

I’m pretty sure they blame the others for not being more careful and that they if only they slipped and fell more often it wouldn’t hurt so much.

Yes and then they get drenched and track it all over the house causing others to slip and get hurt.

They should just require ships to bring their own water to replace it. 🧠

1. Have you looked at OP’s username?
2. Two posts is everywhere now?

This is floating point. We also need to know what happens when you escape with -0.

My time perception is so screwed these days. I could have sworn I’ve been here a few years at this point.

And so many other things. I’ve also used it for “cloud saves” back/forth from my desktop to my steam deck on games that don’t support them for various reasons. Dyson Sphere Program being one, because the files can get quite large.

That’s been my experience for 95% of Lemmy communities right now, though. I don’t know if it will last but for now, it seems pretty high quality.

I do all my Linux kernel development, and especially compilation, on my steam deck.

Might be worth some tooling to purge communities with no activity where the mods of that community are also completely inactive. The land grab during APIgate probably led to a lot of familiar community names getting taken with the best intentions but by people who fizzled out on Lemmy more quickly.