Wow, do I have some stories for you.

But in short, there’s a lot of FOSS software that people use every day without knowing about it.

And it gets no funding, because why it should.

Companies making 9+ figures have issues sending even a $1000 to an open project that they depend heavily on.

But Microsoft/Oracle/VMWare/Google licenses? That money just shoots out like from a cannon.

Even if those products are not 100% needed and can be replaced.

emerge or gtfo

Yet the owners don’t care.

I hate that it’s pushed as a holy grail.

The current technology is a dead end, and we need to go back to the drawing board with it.

But before we can do that, we need to sell the current version, because we lost a lot of money on it…

AI is a tool to transfer even more wealth, under the current conditions.

GenAIs are a mistake, but corps decided to stuff billions into it, and they want their money back.

Gentoo is the only way.

I’m not sure if this is satire, because if yes, well played, if not, Fuck That.

Just adding that GitLab self-host is an absolute nightmare, if anything goes wrong you are done. They include database in their ‘package’, so you have limited options.

Also GitHub is usually used to distribute dependencies, so if your package gets downloaded 1M+ times, you don’t have to pay for the traffic.

So I installed this way back in the day on my prod corporate VMs. I was still green, and any prod issues would shake me so much, it was too stressful.

I taught myself to relax when the locomotive pops up, take a few deep breaths and go on.

It was super effective. I learned to not get so flustered, and stopped messing commands due to adrenaline. I no longer install it anywhere, but it still puts a smile and a wave of nostalgia when I see or hear about it.

Such a small thing, yet it helped me grow so much.

I will just say:

WHAT THE FUCK are we doing? Alpine has been used in Docker, and Docker is now run everywhere.

WHY are these necessary tools underfunded? They barely even need anything. Why do companies not support them?

Can we start giving at least 0.000001% of net profit to the basic tools used? Can we globally force companies to give the smallest pittance to the open-source projects they make trillions off of?

Cracked software still enables their dominance over the market.

Gentoo OpenRC gang rise up!

I used to, 15 years ago.

Good times.

Where is dwm?

Not being able to do some things is the biggest blocker.

Sideloading for instance. Photos disappearing inside the Photos app and not being in files is also weird. It just felt like I was a moron who couldn’t handle my own files.

I dunno, I had iPhone in my hand for app development, and I wanted to shoot it out of the cannon into the sun.

You have to understand the thinking process behind the UI, and it’s not ‘intuitive’ to everyone.

And I just couldn’t use it, it drove me crazy.

It’s not a take, that was their actual reasoning behind it. Gabe knew Microsoft well, as a former employee.

I had a printer I could not in my life make work on a Windows PC (2017). Then I tried my Ubuntu laptop, no drivers installed, just worked.

Fuck Windows.

Oh boy, I know where I’m losing my next free weekend

Gentoo is the best!

Build flags are absolute godsent.

Ever wondered how much shit goes into your software? How many packages include blutooth or CD drivers? Well, you would be suprised.

LibreOffice REQUIRES MySQL client (or MariaDB), and you can’t build it without it. Sounds weird? Then you have no idea what happens inside your packages.