I use Session Messenger, on the Oxen network. Love it on principle even tho the implementation is a bit lacking in places.

And there’s Tor… Which is what it is.

It seems like most FOSS I’ve seen is a free, buggy, alternative to mainstream software, which resolves a problem the user had.

I don’t know what kind of sw you use, but usually I find Foss software to be sleek, functional, fast with good support and updates, while commercial software is ridden with ads, trackers, bloat and bugs. Exceptions on both sides but the notion that free software is generally worse is categorically incorrect.

Everyone can contribute, but how do they make a living?

So first not everyone can contribute. Usually people who also use the software and have personal (or monetary) interest in it, contribute.

And why does everything has to be about monetisation? Yes, both people and gigantic corporations make money off foss in various ways, I’m sure others have explained that already. But people also do things for other reasons than just money.

But I’m just baffled how people so often declare that foss can’t work or that it’s qualitatively worse, even though the entire planet has been dependent on foss for decades.

No, just because someone sells something directly, doesn’t mean it’s inherently better.

Guess it’s time to finally retire Bromite

Well I hate your stupid png screenshots

Sigh, just when I really switched over to making memes in webp

Maybe don’t use programs from 1996

(Or when you do, don’t complain that new shit doesn’t work.)

Long tap works in the last two versions.

But I was hoping you were asking about preview of the actual web site rather than the url, ha. Anyone knows the solution to that? Some apps have a simplifier browser that can view web pages in reader mode.

Microsoft is using malware-like Windows 11

Removed fluff

Ah yea I don’t know why I didn’t see them before when I installed it… Weird. Thx

Lovely, but no widget support… Is there any foss weather app with good widget selection? I tried a bunch from F-Droid a while ago and didn’t find any.

• you open your code under a licence that means other people can use it, that means other people can use it

• reporting a bug is not demanding free labor

Like how do you think this is supposed to work?

A) That everyone who wants to use open source stuff needs to be a programmer and contribute?

B) That if someone posts code under GPL or some other licence permitting commercial use, that it’s not permitting commercial use anyway?

C) That you need to pay to report a bug?

Come on. If the dev wants to only fix particular things and wants payment for fixing other things, fine, but don’t say this is the only way foss should work.

Looks like Lemmynade is a web app rather than an Android client?

Hot take, but the main issue is - developing a program requires programming skill. Shocker, I know. But think about it, a ton of people may be interested in “taking on” a project, but without being a programmer, nothing can come out of it, unless somebody takes care about the program so much they’re willing to fund development.

Is there a solution? Maybe soon we’ll have AI programming assistants good enough that even a non-programmer can do something useful with source code. At least temporarily keep the project alive with minor updates until someone more experienced comes along.

You know what grinds my gears more however? Rewrites. Whenever a small foss projects announces a complete rewrite, I consider it done, as it’s virtually certain it will be abandoned and the rewrite will never be finished. Seen that soo many times, it’s insane why people attempt it in the first place. Actually insane if the same thing keeps happening over and over and yet you expect different results…

Recently I’ve seen that NewPipe is getting a rewrite. While I have more trust in these guys than in some other projects, it’s time to look into alternatives.

As long as something is running a desktop OS, anything is a use case for it. Maybe that’s exactly the point why it’s x86. It has a 12" inch sceeen after all, so it’s not like it’s just a mini 8" tablet you take to bed to watch vids before sleeping.

Does everything run on ARM? Steam, Wine, stuff like that? Are the power optimisations as good on Linux/ARM as on x86? Not saying they aren’t, but I imagine on a laptop replacement thingy x86 makes sense due to this kind of support.

I want one! Well, I’d rather have one with a 10" display, but this looks good too.

I guess? But the same thing works with Lemmy already, you can search for an url. I don’t really know what needs to be done to have instance-agnostic permalinks…

My main issue with Lemmy permalinks is that they’re instance-specific, so to load a comment link on my instance I need to search for it. There needs to be something like ! for communities. Same for post links.

Another issue is that if a commentisn’tf found (deleted, bad link), that isn’t handled very gracefully I think. (Don’t quite remember how atm.)

Quake 2 has been GPL and had Linux versions since forever, even official ones from id.

I assume this remaster uses the same engine. Maybe they used stuff from contributors/forks, that’s why they kept it open.