Do you have a special game planned for the year anniversary of your posts?

Sure it’s a challenge, but it’s not necessary for getting people to use the software. One does not require the other, but it is a gateway to being able to do that.

It is self-evident that free software with open licensing and no strings attached is a superior and more beneficial ownership model than closed source paid licensing. That part I don’t think anyone needs to be convinced of.

It’s just not necessary to make that one of your core beliefs, or add several others, before using the software.

Same here, top 10 but lower half. I used to re-read it every 4 or 5 years, but I reached an apex point where it held up less and less well, and even abandoned the last read.

That might also be a result of having kids and realising that, while he went through something horrifying in the end, his behaviour before that was rather obnoxious. That said, he could have chosen not to have painted himself in that light, I just never figured out whether he realised it himself or was oblivious / felt it was justified.

Still, some magnificent prose pieces about quality and perception that are highly quotable, and broadly useful as tools to interact with the world around you.

Lila I never quite got to grips with, but my old man said I should try it “when you’re older, much older”

in no particular order

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Not sure if intentional but made me chuckle.

Maybe “adopt an ideology” is fairer than “take a political position”

To my surprise, Nanoleaf tech support responded to me within 4 hours, with a full description of the protocol that’s used both by the Desk Dock as well as their RGB strips. The docs mostly confirmed what I had already discovered independently, but there were a couple of other minor features as well (like power and brightness management) that I did not know about, which was helpful.

Combo of investigating and a foot up from the manufacturer.

When I’ve done this in the past for game controllers I’ve not received such an emphatic response (other than when I was working for the vendor).

Did get some via FOI for a few other products though.

More of the same. Shocking.

Enjoy your day.

But did you sign the petition!? It’s hard not too, literally.

You seem to have some reasonable points here but as you’re resorting to lame ad hominems, you can bicker with yourself.

As a developer and maintainer of FOSS, you are a part of the problem I’m describing

A lot of the times when people hear of Richard Stallman, or other people, who correctly state that all proprietary software is absolutely inexcusable, they feel pressured. Which makes them recoil and distance themselves from those types of ideas. If you need to suddenly re-learn the entire way you are using the computer, and you may have certain habits, or certain things you rely on, or enjoy very much, either games, or software, or in case of PewDiePie, the platform he is on. You will automatically feel like whatever these Stallmans are asking from you is so absurdly hard for you to do, that you don’t even consider it. More than that, to protect yourself from that hard work, you come up with a bunch of reasons, to not even engage in that idea. Which creates an opposition. And it is not something that we want.

It’s not just that, the overbearing FOSS mentality, from Stallmans corner of that world, is that you need to take a damn political position on software to be able to interact with other people that use it.

Which in itself is not actually true, but if you approach it like this with non-technical types then they will rightly and instinctively balk at both the software and you.

Bringing people to FOSS should be the same as bringing them to any other software, and if the ideology behind it is so self-evidently true then - by its own standard - it won’t need significant petitioning to convince them they should use more of it for ethical reasons as well as to meet their needs. This is software, not Amway. They’re trying to write a word document, not to join a cult.

Villainously, I’m billing eight-hours

The games I have for my grandma are: Tetris DX, Mario’s Picross, Pokemon Yellow, Super Mario Bros Deluxe, and Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX.

This made me want to be nine years old and going on a long trip again.

I am the one who nuclear weapons

Look ma, I’m meming!

The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.

Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.

That said, the outcome is the same: don’t waste your money on Kickstarter unless you’d be willing to use the same money at a blackjack table

The type of software that exists only to create a cottage job industry of people who know how to use it.

I just use Jellyfin for this too, not sure I follow the issue but I haven’t used Plex since migrating

Once he forgot to take his phone to the toilet

“ah sorry, I must have missed it because you’re not in my VIPs”

I have no VIPs :-)

Does Walmart even wear a suit? A lot of people are saying they don’t. Good people

Blaming the perceived “center” for the onward journey of the right further and further to the right is, frankly, pretty lazy writing.

No-one was changing their politics because a bunch of upper middle class armchair complainers voiced some banal opinions on identity politics, revealing that they were, in fact, fairly right wing all along. Lo and behold one of the key signatories now supports a literal genocide. So intellectual, many thoughtful.