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Ballsy, just casually dropping the G-word here!

I've never physically hurt anyone.

This is called a suspiciously specific denial.

Like saying "I was never convicted for shooting anyone in the head with a 9mm."

Aluminum doesn't belong anywhere near food. Get a stainless moka pot!

Surely, if nobody is using the software, then there’s no incentive to keep making it.

Making a tool you or the company you work for need yourself, fun, learning, community, doing good, showing off, status, being remembered, (even if it's just in a circle of 10 people)...

Marketing generates interest. Interest gets users. Users (hopefully) get donations and/or contributions to the project.

Irrelevant for the vast majority of open source projects, which will never be financially profitable.

why not be clear and avoid wasting people’s time as they try to figure out what exactly a project is about?

Maybe because the volunteers working on the project in their free time are programmers, not marketers or good communicators?
Also, they aren't wasting anybody's time by creating useful software and giving it away for free.

I realize I'm being confrontational towards you, but this mindset of demanding things from people who literally give away free stuff with no strings attached rubs me the wrong way, every single time. And this mindset is much too prevalent, even to the point of harassing, insulting and threatening open source devs for choices they make in their projects.

The devs owe you nothing. If you don't like what they do, simply don't use it.
There are other options out there, but they may come with a $23/month price tag.

Open Source software is not a product that needs marketing.
The devs making Gimp gain literally nothing from you downloading and using it.
Stop applying capitalist logic to one of the few aspects of life that haven't been monetized yet.

I hope at some point people will add inurl:lemmy to their G***** search to get better results.

No they are a symptom of a deregulated industry that can raise prices by 100% even though their costs have only gone up 2%, as long as a convenient excuse is pushed by the industry-aligned media.

Then, when the chicken plague is over, they lower the prices a tiny bit, to about 80% more than before, Trump declares victory, and the rich have become richer again.

They are the opposite of "set it and forget it".
Probably the most maintenance-heavy distros out there.
They're like Arch, if the Arch maintainers didn't care about keeping the system working.

Kids these days...
Avocados used to be an important resource in the tech industry, since they were the only reliable source of new mouse balls.
After the invention of optical mice, experiments showed that the flesh around the mouse ball has an alternative use, for keeping millenials too poor to revolt.

German is spoken in different versions by Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Luxembourgers and that one Belgian.

I speak the correct version.

(not so) fun fact: This entire text mirrors the sentiments of half of Russians today.

So expect to be lumped in with the rest, enough Americans support this to represent the county as a whole.

It's supposed to be Richmark Shuttleman

lol, just checked. ~/Documents doesn't even exist on my machine.

This is locally-made European AI slop though

Russia Today.
It's basically the Russian Voice of America

RT

I hope they make it in time for Debian 13 to include it.

Just a heads-up: Synaptic doesn't come preinstalled on Debian or Ubuntu anymore.
It's 25 years old software, and tends to behave weirdly when you try to uninstall multiple packages.

Don't worry, we can fix this:

And after work, a nice relaxing drink: