Eh it failed in the most reddit way imaginable: Most of the users are too addicted to astroturf accounts posting heckin puppers and epic memes to organise a boycott beyond a few days. Reddit ownership knew how pathetic the “protest” was going to be from the outset and didn’t even bother trying to disrupt it beyond nudging out a few of the remaining holdouts on subs too small to matter in the grand scheme.

All the mods who thought they were irreplaceable just discovered their users are all the more happy to digest low quality slop moderated by amateurs who are more interested in the title than doing anything to protect the quality of said content.

People are even relenting and PAYING for access to the API to use previously-free apps.

Blows my mind that 50% of mobile visitors are Apple, when 80% of the world uses Android (Though I guess Ph is probably more popular in anglo/european countries which uses more iPhones anyway)

Flutter gang rise up (though technically it’s just hijacking a GTK window)

Fundamentally speaking, none of these people would’ve ended up as billionaires for long. Most FOSS heavyweights already gave up their chance at being much more wealthy for their current roles. That being said, I’m pretty sure Linus and a few others here aren’t exactly short on cash

These are some good tweaks! Personally, especially the smaller changes like uniform sizes for controls, would be worth taking up with the KDE community because they might consider merging them into breeze proper. Unless it doesn’t work like that for theming of course!

Looking forward to this coming to Godot. Personally unlikely to ever need it but there are some impressive projects going on in godot right now that could use it!

The text editor that’ll be coming with Cosmic looks pretty slick! I’ve got a loooong way to go with learning rust so maybe I’ll take a look at the iced/pop libraries when Cosmic comes out 👀

The Nintendo switch and probably other consoles also use fuses to stop you from downgrading major firmware versions. There’s just a massive bank of fuses on the mainboard that blow when you upgrade

the gpio one could also just be the BIOS being whacky. I think I have the same one show up on my Acer laptop and I’ve never had an issue.

Secure boot uses them

yup. and it’s usually on laptops that run less standard bios setups that aren’t easily flashed anyway

It’s a thing with certain laptops, where their secure boot certs are outdated or something. Not really anything you can do to fix, but it doesnt mean anything in practice - I never had issues with it after running linux across multiple distros about a year on my Acer nitro 5.

only thing you might have issues with is using secure boot in certain distros but if you don’t have problems then no need to worry

his last comment before closing the thread suggests that “99%” of the code is controlled by him and other paid contributors. still seems like you’d have to manually contact the last 1% to relicense their code.

me, who gets it mixed up with apt: why are we discussing debian?

Not that I dont dislike electron anyway, but I’d hazard a guess that most of the jank we see in electron apps is more to do with javascript and overengineered web UI frameworks than the browser runtime. If it runs like shit in a browser then it wont be much better ported to electron.

I mean, at least for Linux, I was under the impression that the disk cache only stores programs that have already been loaded once, since there’s not much point loading something from disk to cache if you never actually load it later.

stop using javascript i guess

it’s wine, theyve been releasing versions for years. am I missing something?

I fundamentally distrust the language package repos with a high share of unlicensed libraries in their repositories. It’s a basic legal step for protecting the software supply chain and supports the open source community.

Also, it feels like a sign of immaturity from a package repo to have many unlicensed packages since most serious maintainers see a license as an important step in declaring your software “ready” for distribution. You just can’t assume a package will be maintained if the contributors aren’t going to do these basic steps.

Dart’s package manager actively penalises packages without a license file (at least when browsing on the website directory). Many languages, including those better at enforcing license declarations, would benefit from a similar feature.

I did a similar fucky-wucky before and honestly i just cut my losses and backed up the user data before reinstalling the OS from scratch. Took a few days of tinkering to get my system back to where it was but there’s no telling what kind of system you’ll be left with when you merge a known good image with a broken system.