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It was hard to tell how he is doing and whether any of these treatments are working, but I sincerely hope for a good outcome for him. He has always seen like a genuinely good perso…

I am nearing the end, depending on the refinements. The first two weeks I was regretting it, but adjusted quickly. Honestly for me the issue was more that I did not like the way my…

There is still the Old Farmer’s Almanac https://www.almanac.com/old-farmers-almanac-233-years-and-st...

Came here to add the same comment. Had it on my clipboard already to post. You said it better

Probably referring to me? I live 2 hours from the closest airport. There are no trains near me. Barely any buses. And I am not counting trains within a city just taking a train to …

You've obviously never watched a Hallmark Christmas movie. Train travel is pretty much the norm in that world :)

My daughter recently moved to Vancouver. I was in Seattle for a work trip so decided to take Amtrak to visit her for the weekend. This was my first real train travel. Overall, it w…

I wonder if they considered or looked at using JGit? https://github.com/eclipse-jgit/jgit It provides client and server API. The latter is used by Gerrit for its server. https://ww…

This is shocking and confusing. In the US if you watch HGTV and Mike Holmes, who works in Canada, all they do is talk about how great spray foam is and that is the gold standard. T…

The market GitHub created was Social Coding and the idea that there were network effects to be gained by having all OSS in one place. This is the same thing that makes it difficult…

Something this misses is that the mentality of OSS was just different before GitHub. The thought from the original growth of OSS was that it would be more about the community than …

This is also my issue with pi-hole, I still use it but I lost the password. Every now and then I take a crack at getting back in so I can update it. I have been thinking of switchi…

I wonder if the system on a chip design of Apple Silicon would work for servers. Would it just be a special packaging that crammed several Mac mini boards into a rack mounted chass…

Well said, this is what I was getting at as well. I think the barrier to contribution was too high in the old days, and that is where GitHub brought improvements, but it came with …

I should have clarified, I meant I am not sure what an OSS Project can do about it. I think this ultimately has to be managed by the OSS contributor.

Following up on my previous comment, I managed to never become fully burned out, but it required changes to myself, not the project. I had to become less emotionally invested in th…

It is a fair point, but I think your last sentence hits on the problem. People that contribute regularly to OSS projects are nearly always emotionally invested. It brings a lot of …

This is a good description of what life is like working on almost any significant open source project. The only thing not included was the comments from overly entitled users that …

Most of GitHub runs in its own data centers. Services like actions runners and Codespaces use Azure.

System76 sells the Meerkat. You cannot buy it with Windows installed but it does support Windows according to their support page: https://system76.com/desktops/meerkat https://supp…

I was just about to write this exact post. You can come across an old stone wall anywhere no matter how deep into the forest you are. This is the New England I grew up in and have …

It seems like the bigger concern would be all the important data they have in Lotus Notes, as well as some of the other systems mentioned. VBA seems like a solid choice compared to…

I loved the DAK catalog. I would Google them every now and then to see what came of them. I remember buying an Equalizer and being obsessed over a subwoofer they were selling. I am…