Wait, so people used to take this guy seriously? I watched a review he did on some sim racing gear a few years back and it was obvious the guy didn’t google even the most basic advice on how to set up a sim rig properly.

Since it seems like a lot of people here aren't aware, this is app is open source and publicly licensed, and you can watch the effort being put in on github. It seems like the developer has been working around the clock to get this done, for free, writing code that is owned by the community. If you are loving it, send a few bucks to say thanks: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

The short version is this - once politicians realized that human engagement was maximized by anger, a segment of politicians focused on making white christian Americans believe they were a minority group under attack and being disenfranchised by their country. The seeds of this have been getting sowed for decades.

Well they were dishonest about the product behavior in multiple cases, such as adding referral links to search results. That makes it a bad product.

Watching the github repo, the amount of time the developer has been putting in has been ridiculous. You can send a few bucks to say thanks: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

US companies don’t care about ownership of data.

Push notifications are an ongoing cost as well.

Was gunna say, looks like he’s looting the lava more than doing a carefully controlled scientific procedure.

Not really, IMO. I maintained a large open source project for a few years and the amount of time suck and mental drain is hard to overstate. Most employers seemed to barely look at it even though they could have clearly seen how I programmed, interacted with users, etc. And, if you decide to stop maintaining it, all those happy users are going to be unhappy users. Given that even bad developers have not much trouble getting steady work, and that all that time could have been invested in a project that earned or had the potential to earn money, it’s sort of hard to justify outside of personal passion. Just my experience, anyway…

TIL Valve started and maintains Proton..

This is a great explanation. I started an open source project that was reasonably popular because I was off for two weeks and had a problem I wanted to solve. Before those two weeks were up, I had completed everything I set out to do. I didn’t really expect anyone else to use it or care. But they did, and over the next 2-3 years I burned myself out testing different distro configurations, debating with people on mailing lists on other projects that affected mine, responding to hundreds or thousands of issues that came in, coordinating language translations, reviewing pull requests, etc. I kept going thinking that maybe it would look good on my resume or lead to work in the future, but the only person in an interview that had heard of it told me he disagreed with its existence!

Even though I had total control of the project, it was so hard to keep my original vision in place. Should I turn down an incredibly ingenious pull request because it didn’t fit my original vision, even though many other people will use it? But if I accept it, it’s another complexity to maintain. What about a pull request that meets a lot of goals but is only half way there in terms of implementation - do I take my time to finish that? Some of the people arguing in the ecosystem were paid employees of Canonical, Microsoft or some other entity that seemingly had nothing to do all day but try to bend projects to their will. I really had no time left to deal with my own interests in improving the project.

I know this is a long rant, but many of the projects in the Linux ecosystem are maintained by people in a similar situation. It’s pretty amazing that it’s as cohesive as it is.

Thank goodness. I came here because I didn’t want to be a customer.

I’m in the US and I only have Standard as an option in my account. Is that the same as Basic or did they get rid of it here already?

The code is open sourced under a public license. The developer doesn't own the code any more than you do. If they added ads someone could just fork it and remove them.

That said, running a large open source project is difficult and frustrating. Any donations they receive will likely be a pittance compared to what they would make spending that time coasting in a corporate dev job. Send them a few bucks as a thank you: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gavink

Memmy is open source. Anyone can fork it and work on it if they want to. The developers are all of us. Why don’t you give some time?

Funny someone with your username would advocate for people who outright bought a piece of hardware to be controlled by the manufacturer in terms of what they can do with their device, while also forcefully taking an enormous cut of any transactions involving it.

Epic has forced Apple to give users more options, and that’s a good thing. Epic are usually the bad guys - this time they weren’t.

Well, it's showing up now! Not sure if it's related to the upgrade. In general, what is the exact format needed for it to locate an unsynced community? "penguins@lemmy.world" ? And does that go in the Community auto-complete dropdown or the search box?

You can delete an account from the account list.

(To be technical about it, That’s a little different than signing out in that the api key issued will still be valid as Lemmy doesn’t provide a way to invalidate the key. I believe the only way to invalidate a Lemmy api key currently is to change your password)

Avelon seems to be closed source…