Why bother? It's not like there's a shortage of login managers out there.

I don't do web development, but I dabbled a little with Tailwind CSS a while back and found it to be a really nice way to work. AFAIK, you can't do that in standard CSS without dedicating the time to design and write your own library of classes.

I don't know you, but I'll give you an example of someone I do know

• Didn't give a crap about computers throughout highschool. Didn't really know what he wanted to do in general

• Picks computer science last minute because it supposedly makes a lot of money

• Cruised through shitty community college doing the bare minimum, no side projects or any sign he's even interested

• At graduation time, he barely knows how to code. Has a github profile with some homework assignments he was forced to do

• Is part of the job market now, competing against you and me.

I don't know if he's employed as a software engineer right now, but I've worked with people who obviously fit the same profile. People who expect real work to be as simple as submitting a homework assignment last minute using shit you copy pasted from SO (or I guess ChatGPT now), and then fucking off to enjoy life while your coworkers are burdened by your incompetence.

This is a field where actually giving a shit is a requirement.

I don't agree with OSI either, and think their licenses are exploitative. But their definition is useful to call out orgs like FUTO.

The solution to devs being exploited by big tech is the GPL or AGPL, not whatever FUTO is doing. They're trying to have their cake and eat it too: earn the goodwill that comes from claiming you're open source, while keeping the same restrictions in place you'd see in a commercial software package, which keep users locked down to one vendor (aka "free beer" rather than "freedom")

This isn't a new idea invented by FUTO, it's called "source available". Gitlab is another example of this, as is Unreal Engine, and many others.

How much VRAM does alacritty use? On my machine, nvidia-smi reports 6MiB for konsole, which I'm seems to be some default reserved by Qt apps (eg dolphin reports the same amount)

They were only in office for 4 years, and while they did a lot they couldn't do everything.

Not everything is about politics.

No, but antitrust enforcement obviously is

Take away his other toys lol

Idk what got me into it, but I do remember that I would frequently play around with MS Paint at my mom's workplace when I was very young. I don't remember how frequent my trips to her job were, but obviously I didn't have anything else to do while there. So when we finally got our own computer at home, I immediately knew what I wanted to do on it. From that point I would start learning more and more.

I don't have kids, but lots of young children in my family. I've tried getting them into computers too, but they also seem scared of them. I think where I went wrong was trying to show off all the cool things it can do too quickly, as they might have gotten intimidated by the arcane rituals I did to make them happen.

Regarding games, idk. My first exposure to games was on consoles, and I didn't play any PC games until we got internet at home and I stumbled across flash sites. I remember spending WAY more time looking for funny videos/animations than games.

So... I have no real suggestions, just a few personal anecdotes.

It's a very high quality code base too, but not for the faint of heart.

Qualcomm seems to be in a tough spot nowadays, so maybe they'll be open to playing nice with others for once? One can dream.

Is it still fashionable to claim you were always an AI company, and just developed to build the capital to achieve your AI goals?

In any case, AI is (and always was) a meaningless buzz word. Worse, it's a pop-culture adjacent buzz word.

I know, I've played with postmarket os before on an old Pixel. The issue is that the usability gap between even AOSP (which is barely usable) and the latest and greatest mobile linux distro is enormous. The issues that exist right now may or may not bother you and I, but they are showstoppers for normal people.

I just don't see what there is to be gained (for end users) from creating another Linux mobile OS instead of just building on top of AOSP. In theory, having a community-driven OS is a great idea because even a GPL fork of Android wouldn't survive long due to divergence/fragmentation. If a truly community-driven OS can achieve a sustainable development process, that'd be nice. However, in practice the evil stuff Google does is on the business side, not the code side. For example, if you port Phosh to Android as a custom launcher, you'd end up with a similar user experience, except with the added benefit of a phone that actually works and a massive ecosystem of working apps. Sure, you can't apt install blender, but nobody actually wants to run desktop apps on a smartphone.

And another thing is that a lot of the freedom-restricting bullshit on Android today is the fault of device manufacturers who lock the bootloader and make it difficult/impossible to run custom operating systems. Even if you build a feature-complete alternative to Android, you're still going to be struggling hard to get it running on real devices without buy-in from OEMs. How will you convince OEMs to ship your OS over Android? Answer: you won't.

So IMO, Postmarket OS and similar projects will only ever be toys for nerds like us who want to play with e-waste devices abandoned by the manufacturer.

Want to break Google's stranglehold on Android? Write to your representatives and start voting in more than just the presidential election (If you're American). We live in a democracy, and Google is obviously breaking antitrust laws. It's just that current politicians are corrupt and incompetent boomers who don't understand tech, and are more likely to listen to the billionaire's lobbyists than us internet nerds.

Besides myself, I think I've only ever met one or two other people who know enough about technology to even be capable of using something like that.