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If you pay for beach accommodation instead of a dwelling in some higher-priced metropolitan area, sure. As an add-on though, still more expensive. I'd wager that most people are wo…

Apparently it's possible to download a whole load of books illegally, but still train AI models on them without those getting pulled after you get found out. The same reasoning may…

That's not even the most recent iteration, there's also Deskflow now which is maintained by the main Synergy developer and a very active independent dev. Works fine on Wayland afai…

> To put a positive conspiratorial spin on the recent Wayland push: maybe they think that taking away the option to fall back to X11 will finally get enough eyes on Wayland to fix …

Free books for you as an individual, not free for the library and the city backing it. What's in your library still ends up paying authors (and their publishers).

> But humans have evolved to socialize thinking, haven't we? An overwhelmingly large number of people keep saying that socialism is bad, individualism is where it's at. I trust the…

A not-so-insignificant number of FOSS developers are well able to make quality UIs, but decide to charge for their more polished creations. Between having to make a living somehow,…

Zynthian (a RPi-based synth collection & groovebox) lists some of the most prominent ones on its website: https://zynthian.org/engines Its install recipes directory may yield a les…

The Steam client has to restart in order to pick up the newly added external titles, at least last time I tried. In gaming mode, restarting the client means restarting the system, …

You don't feel like the Steam Deck does a pretty good job with suspend and resume, even while playing games?

It's a little more nuanced than that. Software and gained freedoms survive not because they exist, but because they are being actively maintained. If your original, never-taken-awa…

Another take, from a more recent Blue Systems / Techpaladin developer: https://akselmo.dev/posts/bluesystems-to-techpaladin/

No. Jonathan was co-maintaining KDE neon, which now has one developer left and is about to be joined by KDE Linux, another take on a Plasma-based distro. He also handled release ma…

It's not open source anymore once you add this; open source is defined as having equal terms for everyone. That said, a few entities are advocating for something like this, e.g. Br…

Phabricator had its task tracker open to everyone, but the company behind it would charge for prioritization of tasks being tackled. If you want your bug fixed or feature implement…

Until monopoly, or until 15-20% when companies start offering widespread Linux support for applications and peripheral management, and retail stores start selling some devices with…

About 4-6% in US and other Western countries, depending on analytics source. Increases in the past year or so by a full percentage point or so. More in India, less in South America…

Bookworm stayed on Plasma 5.27.5 when Plasma shipped bugfix releases up to 5.27.12. Debian may have cherry-picked a handful of patches from there, but that's a lot of bugfixes miss…

All of the cloud providers are already in on BSD-licensed Valkey, so which community is realistically going to take over AGPL Redis next time around? The much smaller group of Redi…

There is no end goal. It's just a bunch of independent actors who are all trying to get ahead of their competitors a step at a time. Two steps if they're lucky. The collective syst…

Qt hasn't been terrible in terms of upgradeability between major versions for many use cases, but Krita got the short end of the stick. Krita's scope and architecture requires both…

He added an edit that the tablet software in Plasma 6 still works as it did before when run in X11. Only if you switch to Wayland, or your distro does it for you by removing X11 pa…

Imagine you have a portable laptop that works for 95% of all your use cases except those days when you need a cluster of GPUs training a ML model or doing some large-scale scientif…

I am an owner if I can exercise control over the software at hand. That's entirely my point - there is open source that a rando like me can hop in and improve, sometimes requiring …