this is great.

Are you planning to compile the programs on the thin client? Although rust runs efficiently on a lot of hardware, compiling is gut-wrenching.

I have an rPi 1B running as a lightweight server and both rust and c++ applications take hours to compile (some of them take over a DAY). so, interpreted languages might be what you’re looking for. my favorite is python. most distros have a lot of native packages in their repos. albeit a little weird to work on, perl is great, too.

R. because it’s really easy to work on spreadsheets. i know there’s pandas for python but at that time RStudio made it look really attractive. i will do anything not to work on excel.

i’m all for periodic contributions through channels like open collective but bounties rarely get to the point of being persuading.

for a couple of years now my favorite foss project has been blender bim addon and its community osarch.

it has a unique aspect. the software stack it’s trying to be an alternative of includes giants like autodesk, nemetchek etc. although it’s a gigantic shoe to fill, it has been really really successful at doing what it’s doing. i have been using it for a year now and cannot fathom to go back.

the community consists of experienced construction sector people and a decent amount of them are directly involved in the software development, be it coding, bug triage, educational content, technical support etc.

i guess the thing that makes a project tick is having a working state software, the degree to which is not important, and being community oriented.

how is that vi-inspired? shortcut for quitting is just q!!!

please add a trigger warning!

yeah i’m on 3060ti and wayfire, it’s been good for quite a while now.

and as if like there will be one monarch to rule them all! all by himself, waiting by the dock, preparing for a duel.

just because we don’t officially call it monarchy, people think that it’s a whole new system. every critique you have against monarchy is valid for the billionaires and vice versa.

jeff bezos is a monarch. he has an empire with people doing literal slave-work and practically untouchable by the judicial system. if you are not willing to overthrow him now, you won’t be willing to overthrow a “literal” monarch. same goes for every billionaire.

as there are middlemen protecting the billionaires now -like mass media, military industrial complex, heavily armed local police, union busters, corrupt judicial system etc.- there will be middlemen protecting the monarch then.

you think you would be willing to overthrow the monarch because it’s not real, a fantasy. but you’re willingly turning a blind eye to the exact same thing that is real and happening right now.

i think codeberg.org would be the flagship instance, since they’re the ones that has been supporting the development most as far as i can see.

to be fair, scientifically that is true for all buildings.

“dark web” is what mass media calls what is not in the “clearnet”. there are already protocols in place like tor, i2p, gemini, gopher etc.

this is the exact same thing i’ve been wondering for a while now.

we used to have dynamic ip’s. we could update our a little longer tld’s to our everchanging dynamic ip’s and that was that. i could even host a mail server this way. i had a script that updated my mx and a records and i was good to go.

now most isp’s give you shared dynamic ip’s that you have no way of exposing your local machine to your tld.

i now have my local server serve my nextcloud instance over tor. it’s a little slower but i don’t need a governing body to setup my tld, which was my end goal.

there exists a script called fedproxy but i haven’t had time to investigate. it would be cool if it worked.

that is just pure admiarchy in display.

i guess it’s an instinct to want most people to move away from reddit (or windows, ms office etc.). but unfortunately this is not what free software is about. i’m not being cynical here, let me explain.

think of the time when you didn’t know anything about windows; you had to learn your way around, its quirks. now that you have used it for so long that those things have just become second nature.

i used identi.ca, i have been using mastodon for 4 years now, i started using lemmy last year, i have been using irc for i don’t know how long, i started using linux in 2005, i have been using floss professional audio software for more than 15 years, i’m even transitioning my professional arch/eng workflow to floss software.

know that free software is not for everyone, not because these are not capable, but because it’s hard to delearn and relearn a new workflow.

which means… lemmy most probably won’t be the new reddit, but it’s already a nice platform that it never needs to be the new reddit.