I am unsure if their political views have any affect on being the ones wanting to decide on important things like that. I know that they are both openly communist, and they both have Fidel Castro as their profile picture.
Perhaps the fediverse will get big enough that third-party developers will step in to fix this.
Unless they can convince the devs to integrate, I believe the third-party developers would have to fork the project and convince Lemmy instances to switch to their fork. From there, the third-party developers might change the name from Lemmy to something else.
I also wonder if Mastodon could be more integrated with Lemmy would that improve things.
This won't happen. The Lemmy dev does not want Mastodon to be integrated into Lemmy. They say that plenty of other fediverse software already has this implemented, and that Lemmy doesn't need to reinvent what other software does.
I live in an "At Will" State in the US, which means I can be fired at any time. Depending on what is going on, or how the company works (like if HR sucks), I'd rather not fight back hard.
I was stuck with an absolute horrible supervisor in my last job, and it took me 1.5 years of applying to jobs to finally get out of there. It isn't easy to just get a job.
I can't imagine not having a job for 1.5 years and paying $1500/mo for my 1 bedroom and then also other bills such as utilities + car stuff + food + etc.
Not sure if he would’ve merged it, my knowledge of the kernel development process is a bit lacking - but I thought all the various subsystems of the kernel had their own maintainers who handled merging patches.
There is exactly one person who can merge patches into the mainline kernel repository: Linus Torvalds.
When the merge window opens, top-level maintainers will ask Linus to "pull" the patches they have selected for merging from their repositories. If Linus agrees, the stream of patches will flow up into his repository, becoming part of the mainline kernel.
While there are top level maintainers for the subsystems, it looks like Linus is the only one who can merge them into the mainline kernel.
Darktable is definitely my favorite RAW photo editor. There are a lot of great tutorials online including YouTube