Isn’t it kind of what Liberapay is doing?
Isn’t it kind of what Liberapay is doing?
Maybe I’m missing the point, but if you want to have union of maintainers/contributors, please go ahead, just be careful with assuming it can actually address the problem. You will never have any substantial percentage of maintainers. That’s kind of the main point of FLOSS: people do what they want to do, where they want to do.
If you want to collect data about what is used – with the goal of “not forgetting the little project with the library”, that’s also great but that’s going to be a lot of work and might be impossible to reflect. I can’t think about solution that would not be platform-specific.
Don’t get me wrong, uniting FLOSS developers along common goals, technology domains or philosophy, building communities and providing support systems is an absolute wonderful thing to do, even if you end up having what might feel like just a few projects.
Today I learned:
How cool is that?
Yeah, I phrased it weirdly, but that’s what I meant.
Just a follow-up with what I use now.
As a replacement, I ended up setting up Nextcloud AIO container set and so far the experience has been pretty good. I do occasionally have to go and do the update manually but the AIO interface makes it pretty straightforward.
The limitation is that I don’t have a very strong machine to host it. I have cheap VPS with only few gigs of RAM so I could give 2G to the nextcloud machine, which prevents me from enabling the more resource-hungry features, on the other hand the base NextCloud with caldav/carddav (which really is all I need) works fine.
Unfortunately later I learned that for some reason, somehow (surely my mistake), the only full copy of my dad’s contacts was at the nextcloud instance, so that collection was the “hostage”. Far more sadly, my dad deceased earlier this year, so in a weird irony when I received bill this time, the sad fact enabled me to put this all behind myself, so today I just canceled the service and goodbye.
activitywatch looks really good. thanks for the link!
rescuetime looks nice but is actually mac/win only.
I heard of Toggl but I can’t wrap my head around how – a web-based app can even know what i’m working on – in other tabs or outside browser (which for me is 90% of meaningful work)?
why so?
yup, that’s why i avoid it like the plague.
It’s .deb’s and .rpm’s all the way down.
And sometimes flatpaks. And sometimes AppImages.
But never pips, gems or any of that sort of …
Months are an unnecessary and leaky abstraction, they don’t need to be taken seriously.
I agree with this programmer.
It should be obvious that this has nothing to do with intuition, and everything to do with familiarity and comfort-level.
Not to be petty, but I think that intuitive is not that different to familiar.
I mean, the problem is in using the word intuitive when “selling” something in the first place. User interaction involves ton of things, large and small, and the intuitive things are rarely noticed. Such promise is likely going to lead to disappointment.
Adapting to these small differences is a skill in itself.
I’ve realized this true randomness is something that current Web does not offer, all the algorithms are so optimized to keep bringing “what interests you” or “what interests lot of people”.
The randomness is so addictive, and perhaps even a bit dangerous.
I’ve checked https://voidlinux.org/, looks nice but there is no screenshot! How can I decide without screenshot?
/s
that’s some serious good-ass news good ass-news
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Reminds me of Technology Connections but with Linux and I love it.
Intriguing…
[goes to watch the video]
Indeed! Not a copycat or anything like that, but really similar good-spirited style of presentation. And very good content!
subbed…
where Linux has not completely crushed all of its competition
…yet.
But the time is coming! in 90000000000000003, 90000000000000002, 90000000000000001…
I would not say “not believe too much in your efforts”, I think the tendency to simply scale down enthusiasm can be toxic in its own way.
I like to remind myself of how Václav Havel said it:
Yes, being enthusiastic about false goals can lead to devastating results. Being hopeful by realizing that your work does make sense even if you won’t necessarily see results of it, that’s much more sustainable source of motivation.
Also, remember that no matter how it turns out you will learn something on the path. If anything, this is one of the “certain” parts.