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I don't think Oracle will die, but even entertaining the hypothetical I suspect that some other organization (e.g. Apache) would pick up and maintain a fork.

Even still, it's 2026, I don't really think "has 5G" is considered a luxury feature on a smartphone. I'm sure that the Pine folks have very good reasons for not having 5G support, …

I didn't have a Mac in that era, but I did have a Macbook Air from 2014 and I ran Ubuntu and NixOS on it just fine, even at the time. I had to use rEFInd but it wasn't terribly har…

I have thought about buying one of the Pinephone things, because I want to actually own the computer in my pocket, but I have always hesitated because the hardware is always kind o…

macOS isn't perfect but it is decidedly less shitty than Windows. Linux has its issues but it's still less terrible than Windows.

That might have been true in 2004. It's 22 years later now.

It decidedly does not “update itself reliably”. Windows Update is still broken garbage that will break your computer.

I am skeptical of the “backwards compatibility” claims. Often playing older Windows games is easier and more reliable on Linux with Wine/Proton than on Windows 11.

I feel like what Microsoft is best at is making something and convincing everyone to use it before anyone has been able to thoroughly check how terrible it is, and by the time peop…

> It isn't just other CS majors any more. Hey, that's not fair! It also had nine year olds who bought a book about HTML and made shitty sites on Geocities!

I've used it on every blog I've ever built ( https://blog.tombert.com/index.xml ) because it's super easy to set up, but I really don't know anyone who uses RSS in any serious capa…

Yeah. There honestly was a purity to the disconnected nature of shitty Geocities and Angelfires pages, where filled with amateurs writing shitty HTML just because they thought it w…

I have one of those free Oracle cloud instances with 24 gigs of RAM; I've considered hosting there, but for now I just use Sourcehut. There definitely is value in "it's hosted some…

Agreed; I occasionally have to awkwardly work around the lack of support for large files by hard-coding S3 links and the like. That kind of sucks. Honestly I mostly just kind of wi…

The article in which you are replying to is specifically about different git-compatible forges, not just Github. If you use "Git", people are going to (correctly) think you're refe…

Sure, but GitHub sort of runs contrary to what Git's philosophy, which is why I'm arguing that "Git" is an irrelevant variable with regards to the problems with Github. Git, as a s…

Well, it certainly wouldn't be called Github, but I'm sure there would be some equivalent "MercurialHub" or "MonotoneHub" had Git not been created. Even before Git, there was Bitke…

But Git isn't the platform. It's still just a version control. The article itself is explaining other platforms that work with Git, of which there are dozens. The `git` program its…

I don't know why you censored "underage". People are weird. Anyway, the only source I've really heard trying to make Devault a sex-pest comes from Bryan Lunduke, who's an idiot tha…

Genuine question: Have you considered moving to your own server? I ran Forejo for a bit, but I made the mistake of trying to use Jenkins for CI, which is very annoying for someone …

I hadn't ever used the email-based pull request until I started using Sourcehut, but ever since I did I've honestly grown to prefer it. People shouldn't require an account at a for…

How would subversion fix this problem exactly? It would still be a centralized forge that Microsoft could still control/ruin. In fact, more centralized than Git, which itself was d…

I think there's a fear from the employers that the terminated employees will do something to fuck over the company because they're bitter, either by copying and distributing propri…

That turned out to be my case. I had at the time undiagnosed sleep apnea, and I think I was using caffeine as a crutch instead of treating the problem.