Ladybird needs to support openness & stop using MS GitHub & Discord as their only means of communication/collaboration.

They don’t package LTS kernels which is pretty concerning—especially if using out-of-kernel modules that don’t always get released in lock step that could leave you with a machine that won’t boot.

Matrix isn’t ActivityPub ∴ not a part of the fediverse

I just had a nice cup of Thai white tea, which induced the opposite of rage 🍵

Hot season is my least favorite, but I come to love the rainy season for being cooler & more dynamic even if it can sometimes be inconvenient

Eh, in a myopic sense yes, but folks are using Microsoft GitHub for their CI, issue tracker, forums, kanban, Wiki & so forth. By choosing their Markdown fork, you are locked into that too. Some communities like Elm, Unison, Nix use MS GitHub as your primary community identifier (Elm doesn’t even allow you to create packages on another platform). Many tools only allow MS GitHub single sign on. If you fork off of MS GitHub, in most scenarios you’ll still be required to have an MS GitHub mirror or you won’t be able to submit a pull request as most projects don’t have an alternative contribution channel.

Some of this can be migrated, some of it can’t & the whole time being entrenched in MS GitHub land projects will fear friction & loss of users/contributors if they move (& the platform they would move to likely isn’t offerering anything more than being open source).

So can you just move the code elsewhere since Git is a DVCS? Yep. But projects are more than just the source code.

If they whine (pun not intended) make the moderators add a Linux category & proudly show off that you run games fast on a free OS.

That just converts tabs to space but doesn’t address the underlying accessibility needs where some folks demand different indentation due to vision issues or nonstandard IO devices like braille readers. Tabs allow the user to configure the width for their needs. Being static spaces ignores the needs of many folks.

Do you remember CSON? CoffeeScript Object Notation was a cute way to make JSON readable before CoffeeScript kinda died.

My previous laptop got struck by lightning last month. Because I had a passphrase & not TPM for unlocking, I stripped the NVMe from the board, put it in an enclosure, entered the passphrase, & now I can access all my data for recovering from that situation. Had I tied it to TPM, I wouldn’t be able to recover my data (ZFS & Bcachefs only have one ‘slot’ for passphrases so no secondary, backup key)—while, as you pointed out, a thief can just boot the laptop they stole to get the data. Point being: passphrases offer advantages while being dead simple.

Doom Emacs is the Emacs users that found their operating system, but are trying to stumble their way into a good text editor :)

Ones with voice activation & stuff do this already. TVs will pull a lot of power when ‘off’ since they’re not off.