Oh that’s nice. Hadn’t seen their stuff before but that looks like a MUCH better option than Matrix, if you want a shiny gui app and that kind of experience. And can’t argue with the pricing if you’re running an open-source project with it, though I suppose you can make a comment that it’s still got a vendor lock-in problem.

And 100% agree that email is the gold standard, still, and yeah, nobody has really come up with an amazing web UI for searching list archives.

As someone with recent platforms from both Intel and AMD, man, I do not like my 7700x’s platform.

It’s just sporadically unreliable: sometimes it posts, sometimes it doesn’t, sometimes the memory decides it needs to reset back to jedc standards instead of the expo settings, sometimes it doesn’t. Even a successful POST can take upwards of a minute sometimes, and the system may or may not reset in the middle of it, resulting in two extended delays.

Perfectly stable once the OS gets booted (memtest is fine, prime95 is fine and it boosts like crazy up to about 5.5ghz all-core), but getting there is such a pain on occasion.

I realize more than a little of this is probably attributable to the motherboard manufacturer/efi settings, but the last few AMD platforms I’ve had are just wonky and less than 100% reliable compared to the last several Intel ones, which have typically just worked, correctly, every time.

I don’t agree with the whole list, but the CLA requirement and corpo projects pinky-promising they’d never do a bad thing and then going to do a bad thing as soon as their investors demand returns is certainly a major risk and harm. I’ve started self-hosting everything for my personal use, and if it’s not AGPL, then I assume at some point I’m going to get fucked and shouldn’t rely on it.

Also, the endless stupidity around everyone using Discord as their primary means of communication, discussion, issue reporting and whatnot. Politely, fuck Discord, and fuck anyone who thinks Discord is the right way to make anything accessible to the public.

There’s lots of other alternatives, including ye olde IRC and forums and even simple mailing lists - and no, I don’t mean ‘sign up for our newsletter!’ nonsense, but an actual real mailing list. And, if you want something a little more modern, there’s always Matrix which is probably feature-complete enough to compete with whatever you’d want to use Discord for anyways.

I knew #1 would be a Dodge Ram even before I clicked and viewed the image.

Stay classy, Dodge drivers.

Because most poeple don’t care and just want to play the latest $GAME_NAME_HERE?

And I mean, Nintendo has already sued people into essential slavery and nobody said shit, so I don’t know what the fuck will get people’s attention.

Looks like Debian and Ubuntu have shipped patches, but I’m not seeing them show up in the RHEL-derivatives just yet, but I’m sure that’ll be soon™.

Yep, I’m also in the dev’s matrix chat and it’s pretty much been cycling through working and broken for pretty much everyone :(

Agreed. I’d say that, if you have the option, then the libre option is the one you should pick whenever you can. But, realistically, software is a hammer, and you should pick the hammer that does what you want, and ignore the internet hollering that you’re somehow impure if you use even a single piece of proprietary software.

Sequel yes, more DLC for the first one, no.

Since when has a cat needed permission to go wherever it wants?

I’ve saved tons of money by only not playing games I get for free. Much more affordable that way.

I’m now imagining David Caruso sitting there at his desk licking hard drives. Thanks a lot.

Honestly, this should be actually illegal. It’s a fraudulent job posting designed to waste my limited time, but it’s okay for these companies to do shit like this because of uh, reasons?

I mean I’m not blaming anyone other than the manufacturers who make things and then arbitrarily decide to stop supporting them while they’re still perfectly usable, leaving basically no choice other than trashing and buying a new one.

Just a side note, Commento is kinda dead on the self-hosting front at least as it’s been years since an update, which is probably not great for a public service.

However, Comentario is a updated fork that’s being maintained.

If you want a mostly straightforward WordPress-alike that’s not WordPress, you probably should at least consider Ghost. I’m using it for my blog and it’s got a slightly weird focus on “paid blog members”, but it’s super solid and doesn’t have a multi-decade history of endless security problems.

And, soon, it’ll be a happy member of the Fediverse.

As someone who isn’t a fan of e-waste, I really hate these little “appliance” type NASes. Companies abandon them while they’re still perfectly usable and meeting someone’s needs, and tell you oh sorry, I guess you should buy a new one and throw your current one away. (Which, annoyingly, the article also does.)

Heh, you’re not kidding. Their website barely actually loads, and I gave up trying to see who they were using as a datacenter because each page load was taking north of 60 seconds, so uh, that tells me everything I could possibly need to know about their service.

So wait, they’ve gone from getting wet and having the bumpers fall off to getting wet and then instantly crashing?

I’m not sure that’s an actual improvement.

There’s stuff for sale like that on the ARM side, but you’ll pay out the nose for it, as it’s all enterprise-y server-y stuff. For example, you can buy Ampere chips and boards that have ram slots and pci-e slots and all that jazz, but it costs way too much to make any sort of sense at the consumer level.

But yeah, on the consumer side we’re never going to get modifiable and upgradable systems from the current crop of SOC vendors, and, worse, the x86 duopoly looks to want to head down the integrated RAM and non-upgradable path too :(