QuazarOmega @ QuazarOmega @lemy.lol

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You can't rely on their goodwill, you either make it enforceable with a license, or you just treat it as a something that you don't expect to make money from.

The comparison to artists doesn't really hold, because they won't start a work for someone without them asking, then showing off their creation and hoping that the involuntary "client" will pay for it once it's already been done.
While programmers can be commissioned to make some piece of software, that will most likely end up as proprietary, unless stated otherwise in the contract between the two parties, akin to a commissioned piece of art, hardly any client will be ok or even proactively ask you to release the work under a CC license.

Companies especially are more revenue than image driven (or solely tbh), so they won't "waste" any money where they can avoid it, if Amazon finds a nice service they can host and tweak on their AWS that promises to be useful and make them lots of money, they will just go for it and stay within the lines of what the license allows, which often is "too open" for its own good (think MIT), so the project won't see nothing like a contribution back, let alone money.
The illuminated companies that can (more like want to) afford to contribute in any way to software they rely on are few and far apart and it takes them to realize how much of an impact the project they're using makes on their business, which is often difficult to put into tangible numbers, we see that happening mostly with the biggest projects, think Blender, Linux, etc. The poor library developer will most likely never see a dime coming from the thousands of employers whose developers will pull in their dependency for their product

Chat, is this real?

I rudely agree with your opinion

Have you checked if there is any record of your Bluetooth card on the Linux hardware database?
That might give you an indication of how well it's supported

This got me teary eyed, I feel humbled when I hear these stories and wonder why I don't put more effort into what I do

Never done anything with 2 mics, so I'll just throw a vague suggestion: there's Helvum to combine the mic inputs and then Easy Effects that can apply a few noise suppression filters that can do world of a difference, maybe the first isn't even necessary, while the second is the core and can be tweaked a lot

cat propaganda

Knew someone would say that, lol, gold project, sad that it's gone unmaintained and my man started working on home-manager at home
..wait

Yew* Rust

FTFY

This doesn't account for all the comfort food the programmer will have to consume in order to keep themselves sane

That's exactly what a Stockholm syndrome victim would say!

Where programming?

C supremacy

LGTM+

I'm guessing you're currently on Windows, right? If so, Virtualbox is perfectly fine, otherwise, if you're on Linux already, you could use Boxes or Virt manager that are more performant, but don't stress yourself if you just wanna play around Virtualbox will always be more than sufficient.
As for the ISOs you can just get them directly from the distro websites or, if using Boxes, you can choose one at VM creation and it'll download it for you

Damn these programmers horny af

DisplayPort connector stuck in socket I think

I see.

tor has geo location issues.

Could you explain what you mean with this? I'm not sure I understand

mullvad for looking shit up on ecommerce sites with new ID each time

Is it sufficient? I'd always assumed it was easily targetable with the IP so I started using TOR for that purpose

That's fair, I won't say that it's not as complicated as it sounds because I don't know what you know, but if you want it put into simple words, it's the following:

1. Install drive 1 in PC
2. Install Windows
3. Remove drive 1 from the PC and put drive 2 in its place
4. Install any Linux distro that comes with GRUB as bootloader (most of them, personally recommend Fedora if you want a suggestion)
5. Install drive 1 into the second slot that was left empty up to now
6. Start boot, your motherboard will have a specific key to launch the boot selector, e.g. F10, or go into the UEFI settings to put the Linux option first
7. Boot into Linux and trigger the GRUB detection for other OSes so it updates the list of entries
8. Reboot
9. Now without having to smash a random key to get the built-in boot selector, you will instead be able to choose comfortably from GRUB.

Anyways don't pressure yourself into doing any of that if you don't feel comfortable with it, of course.
One step at a time, the important thing is you're satisfied with what you have and that it's functional to your workflow