jevans ⁂ @ thejevans @lemmy.ml

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Maybe they could be a bit more explicit, but I don't see hypocrisy.

Accepting your description of their comments:

I'm busy and don't have time for this

is roughly equivalent to

I will not be personally taking on this issue, so if someone wants to contribute, this is a reasonable candidate.

which is good information to get from a maintainer.

I will say, however, the times they said something along those lines in the examples you gave in your last post, they also said why they didn't consider it a high priority, which gives more important context as well.

I don’t think they are tyrant but they are a bunch of hypocrites.

Was this bit meant to illustrate hypocrisy?

The only thing that I’ve seen the developers say in GitHub comments is things like we are busy and don’t have time for that. And that is after saying this:

Before opening an issue, make sure that it hasn’t been reported before. And when writing comments, make sure that they actually contribute to solving the issue at hand. Generally it is better to move discussions to Lemmy if possible. We are very thankful to everyone who contributes by writing code, hosting instances, moderating communities, and answering questions.

Originally posted by @dessalines@lemmy.ml in https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-06-17_-_Update_from_Lemmy_after_the_Reddit_blackout

There are 217 people who have contributed to LemmyNet/lemmy. The people in charge are the original authors and maintainers, but they are not the only developers by a long shot.

As you seem to be aware of in the rest of your comment, open source projects like lemmy are sustained because when issues are raised, community members contribute to the project to solve those issues. It's entirely reasonable and often expected that project maintainers are picky about which issues they personally take on. That doesn't mean they are rejecting the issue, it just means they won't personally be writing the PR for the fix anytime soon. I see no issue there.

I imagine it being done similarly to Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal. I doubt a Hollywood studio would back a feature film done in that way, but I think if it was, it could be faithful to the game, impactful, and beautiful.

Just to be clear, it seems you apparently deleted the much downvoted posts you made here and on !foss@beehaw.org where you called for forking Lemmy because you claimed the maintainers were acting akin to tyrants. You said they were closing issues and rejecting PRs that users wanted to see because the maintainers themselves didn't want them. When asked for examples, the only examples you came up with were:

1. A weirdly annoyed contributor closing his own PR, followed by the maintainers of Lemmy fixing the PR themselves and merging it within days.
2. An issue open since 2020, where a maintainer commented that he didn't think it was a priority or a necessity, and when pinged about it again this year, made it very clear that he was open to a PR to add the requested functionality.

Do you still think Lemmy is run by tyrants? I find this post a bit jarring given the context of your previous one.

My Framework 12th gen was $1100

I don't have time to work on something like this, but feel free to add it.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/875#issuecomment-1701238490

The maintainer said how he felt about the idea once in 2020, and then when it was brought back up recently he said this. Nothing here is getting shut down or blocked. Again, this is a nothingburger. Got another example?

Don't use Telegram if you don't have to.

The client is open source, but the server side isn't. E2E encryption is only available for secret chats and voice chat. Contacts, messages, media, and their decryption keys are all stored on the servers together. And it's just another big tech product like Whatsapp.

It looks like it was merged a month ago

Could you provide some examples? What you've shared in your original post is really a non-issue.

fear, uncertainty, and doubt

Jitsi has screen sharing and can be tied directly into Matrix

This tab change PR was even more innocuous. The maintainer asked for a style choice to be made so that it matched the rest of the codebase. I disagree with the style choice, but it was an extremely minor thing to be changed and wasn't a big deal. The person who wrote this comment just closed the PR and complained instead of fixing it.

I've had to change the style of PRs I've submitted before loads of times, and I've had long reviews of PRs on my own repos with lots of style changes I asked to be made. This is standard stuff.

A lot of great ideas in here for sure! Better insulation is a great way to store energy without the need for large battery systems. This kind of thinking can also translate really well to more traditional housing.

We already do this kind of thing with standard water heaters in the US, and creating better insulated chest freezers and refrigerators should be straightforward. The cooker seems fairly novel, though.

On a larger scale, Passive Haus construction techniques can go a long way to reducing energy needs for climate control, and would make it easier to turn off climate systems when the sun goes down.

The M600 uses soldered-on mobile CPUs and SODIMMs for RAM. You won't be able to remove the CPU and the RAM is the wrong form factor for 99+% of desktop motherboards. You're right that you can use the SSD, but I wouldn't, given how cheap NVMe drives have gotten these days. You can get really great 2TB drives for under 100€.

I would bet that you probably couldn't take any parts from a device like a Lenovo m600. They don't use standard parts.

You'd be surprised by how much PC you can get for way less than the 1200€ that you said the Synology box would cost. This person was able to snag a very competent base system for a NAS for under 300€, and in another video they walk through how to build one from scratch using mostly standard parts

I would avoid USB hard drive enclosures. Did you already buy the Lenovo system? If not, you'd be much better off building a pc in a simple tower case and having your drives mounted inside and connected directly via SATA or through an HBA.

EDIT: Additionally, for your OS, I would look into TrueNAS Scale instead of Linux Mint.

I think that 404 Media is a great example of a recent independent media organization that has a great user experience and a monetization strategy that doesn't make me feel gross. A lot of their pull is the excellent journalism and writing, and the fact that the journalists that started it are respected and have a decent following. I don't know how feasible this type of setup would be without that head start.

You weren't. Don't assume that everyone lives in the US by default.

Sure, it just seems like a weird lack of imagination to jump straight to building expensive, difficult to maintain infrastructure that takes a really long time to build, when building transmission lines and connecting to the other grids would be faster, likely cheaper, need less attention to detail, and would make for a more fault tolerant grid.