The core insight: OSS monetization was always about attention.

As an Open-source contributor and former owner of several projects, I’m embarrassed.

If you came into Open-source to become rich or famous, you’re a selfish fool. Code for the sake of the code.

I hear it’s semi-modular and repairable. Is this true?

A ir-gapped - Entirely self-contained. Runs without internet access, external services, or tracking

Yet, has a dockerfile.

Which is it? Iso27002 or no?

The plot below shows the price of TVs across Best Buy’s Black Friday ads for the last 25 years. The units are “dollars per area-pixel”: price divided by screen area times the number of pixels (normalized so that standard definition = 1). This is to account for the fact that bigger, higher resolution TVs are more expensive. You can see that, in line with the inflation chart, the price per area-pixel has fallen by more than 90%.

Yay! Now do computer ram from 1980 to 2020 before Ai was involved, and discuss size per dollar. You wanna do CPUs or hard drives next?

Heckling your friends after they dropped $3k on some sloppy fridge is kinda cruel. Advise them hard when they ask for advice - here’s where you say “everyone will laugh” and “stupidest idea” - but commiserate when they realize what they’ve got.

You want to be in a position to offer advice for the next sloppy purchase.

probably shut down the AI servers in a few years for cost reduction making the whole thing a huge waste of money.

It’s like you’ve seen the Portal video chat units. (What a beautiful piece of hardware)

If it really was so bad then all major distros and DEs wouldn’t be actively working to switch.

I’m laughing in Systemd.

That’s something the EU would do, but never America.

I wasn’t a fan. But the older handset RIGHT after they traded the clitwheel for a micro touchpad (for scrolling and clicking) and before the keyboards started collapsing; that was the sweet spot for me.

I’d switch from this to that again in an instant (with a headphone jack and Qi and reverse-qi, that is, as I have those now and they’re life-changing).

it didn’t feel like it ever dominated the market before streaming took over

HD-DVD was better error-correction (thus longevity) but Blu-ray (ugh. The name) had payola. Payola makes leaders.

I suspect the switching of horses from what’s better to what’s more popular derailed the adoption back then when we resisted shallow popularity better.

I work 100% remotely, and my day job doesn’t even have profile pics. When we meet, it’s a dozen cartoon images or memes as faces. No cams, no pics.

The side gig I’ve had for 20 years has never had a pic. These people wouldn’t recognize me if I walked in the office one day.

Why should I? We don’t see a value.

Container crutches. Ew. And if a dev can’t spell self-hosted, then I don’t trust them to do it properly.

Of course; it uses Systemd.

It’s SJVN. That’s all you need to know.

He’s no Cringely.

will let

This implies there was a choice. I’d’ve been glad for a “must let” headline.

Even if your spouse does, it’s the same bank account.

It’s totally okay not to sweat this stuff, since there’s never any good in stressing about it.

I like how OP posted a statement as a question, so I know I don’t need to read more.

Remember when conectiva gave us apt-rpm (and it worked so well it’s been used ever since) but RH was like “we need more fucking python because it’s fun to go slow and also completely go unusable when someone manages to upgrade their python” ?

Good times. It was the dumbest thing they did before Systemd.

It’s a hobby: it’s driven by your interests alone.

There’s two things at play, here:

• installing dependencies without checking
• a framework that will allow this

Both are absolutely the fault of the user.