Another one for the graveyard!

Yep the Pinetime can last for about 2 weeks on Infinitime in my case

This is exactly what it does. It steals code and does not abide by it’s license.

Often it also removes or changes the license/attribution.

The… programming community?

I might adopt Rust, I have no hard feelings against it, I just like not fighting with the compiler and having the fastest execution possible.

But hey, even Lemmy needs some hot takes to keep it lively.

Mainly those who imply we should rewrite absolutely everything in Rust.

I’ve also heard that unsafe Rust is even more dangerous than C. I guess that’s probably something to do with the fact that you’re always on your toes in C vs Rust? I don’t know. But if you need to do any sort of manual memory management you’re going to need unsafe Rust.

I’m going to advocate for C here: the sheer simplicity, fast compile times, and power it gives you means it’s not a bad language, even after all these years. Couple that with the fact that everything supports it.

Rust, while I don’t actually know how to write it, seems much more difficult to learn, slower to compile, and if you want to do anything with memory, you have to fight the compiler.

And memory bugs are only a subset of bugs that can be exploited in a program. Pretending Rust means no more exploitation is stupid.

Yes, the users can redistribute however they like. That doesn’t stop you charging an initial fee (and most people would probably rather get software from the official source)

You definitely can. “Free” refers to the freedom of the users, not the freedom of people who might want to be users (that doesn’t even really make sense, how can you provide the freedoms to people who don’t even use the program?).

Okay, I get it. It makes a lot more sense now. Honestly your first comment was word salad.

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UK QWERTY, no trouble hitting any keys. $ is not hard to reach, | is a bit annoying since it’s right next to shift, which you need to type it, but it’s not too bad.

I use emacs

Yes, its very famous. It’s also GPLed and Copilot had no right to use it in that way, and strip the license.

Copilot regurgitates code verbatim and strips the licensing (see that one video of it spitting out Quake inverse sqrt). Don’t use it if you care about legality.

I mean, there’s a reason there are so many distros. They’re for different needs.

Some people seem to prioritise a little convenience above absolutely everything else, which leads to Ubuntu, but people like me want proprietary software to burn in hell, so we wouldn’t use Ubuntu. Ubuntu is not suitable for our needs. It also wouldn’t be suitable for having an easily customiseable OS, which a lot of people like.

They might as well have though 🙃

Lineage

Hey, even ChromeOS itself runs off of the computer.

You don’t need to use the terminal to install a program at all, at least on Debian with KDE Plasma. You can either download a .deb file and install it with the graphical deb installer, or you can open the software centre (Discover for KDE) and search for it. You can even add extra repositories graphically (and for Debian, you probably are going to want to enable the non-free repo by doing this, which I think has a tick box).

I’ve also never had Linux break on me, unless I broke it myself after poking things I shouldn’t poke.

Good point. I think something like a short questionnaire asking what the user is interested in and how they align, stuff like that, then showing a randomised list of instances that match that would be a better idea, then.

Either way, I still think the current way of listing the instances needs to change.

Yeah. Personally, I also think the join-lemmy.org page should just be a randomised list of instances, not “recommended” and “popular”. It’ll help strengthen the decentralisation and make sure that instances are able to cope with a lot of new users coming to Lemmy easier.

Not really. They’re all connected anyways, and if they use an app they’ll probably never notice apart from the @instance.com theu have to put at the end of some communities

This works great here in Scotland (unless you ask the Tories, who probably do worse because of it 🙃). Push for it!