Maybe he wasn’t even aware of this until everyone else was and got blindsided too. I’m still wary but I’ll give him a shot.

His original comment of not wanting to fork to respect Tibor’s decision to sell his users out doesn’t make me confident in him.

User: “Hello microsoft tech support forum my computer catches fire every time I run mspaint”

Microsoft tech support autoreply bot 3 nanoseconds later: “Here is a link on how to clear your temporary files. Locking thread.”

Microsoft support forum tier?

Nice try, department of defense.

now if only they stopped banning us for open sourcing classified military papers on their forums :(

25 years and still can’t be run on bare metal.

That’s where you made the mistake. You trusted a journalist to title their article accurately :)

i am seething with rage

Can you expect much else from someone who uses JS?

teaching people how to be self-sustaining and not have to rely on the supermarkets is a great way to get drowned in the alphabet soup

bookmarking this shit

I prefer the simple, sane defaults that work for everyone with a heavily commented config file giving detailed information on what each value for each option does, personally. Like MPV’s config file.

What if I do a PR for a program that isn’t even related to Linux and Linus still sniffs it out to tell me I’m a dingus :(

I can only speak for myself and a handful of other people I know who are into FOSS, but for us we care more about it being functional than looking pretty. I just want to see what I’m getting into, a reference for what a successful install looks like, or just check to see if it’s got the buttons I want on it.

I hate elves. If I see any elves in my computer I’m throwing it in the forge.

https://hotdoglinux.com/

How come I can’t install Lemmy on my grill and have it cook me hotdogs?