So top, IMO, is Reaper. Not FLOSS, but the developer has consistently had a reasonable user price set, you can download and install free, you get a short nag screen. If you like it, buy it.

https://www.reaper.fm/

I would say Debian, but Mint is a decent option. I preferred LMDE with KDE but its no longer officially supported as I understand it, only cinnamon is.

And - well I was going to say surprisingly, but its really not - the post I saw just before this was about transit use and a fear of violence. Which, of course, is ultimately due to not addressing the unhoused.

I believe that was $20b, not $2b.

And twice over now, for a total of $40b.

Government work operates on prevailing wage, can’t specify union or not.

Whether or not they abided by this requirement I couldn’t say.

Was OJ Simpson a rapist along with being a violently abusive and a murderer? Because I think Trump just likes rich rapists like himself, I don’t know that OJ counts.

piracy does not

Piracy is actually a huge driver in both legally purchasing content and secondary purchases (art, toys, statues/models, etc).

The overwhelming majority of pirates also point to the extreme increases in streaming costs as well as the constantly changing landscape of streaming services needed, sometimes to even watch a single show you’d need 3-4 services.

I’d also point out that many out there just want their stuff to be seen. Freddie Wong and Matt Arnold recently made We’re All Gonna Die, which was made available in theaters and then a ton of streaming options.

They then pointed to the availability of a 720p torrent (I’m not going to say that they released it) so everyone could see it. Why? Well maybe people will want to check out their other content, buy merch, or subscribe to their patreon where they make other content.

But to say piracy is not a driver is incorrect.

Interestingly enough, cheaper on bluray at about ~$70 than on DVD at around $120.

Though cheaper still would be a yard sale, the library, or the high seas.

Tucker Carlson defending himself, he claimed a playboy model tried to extort trump.

Fox’s legal team argued that his comments couldn’t reasonably be considered factual, and that any viewer should be skeptical about what he says.

That was on his show though, not the news program.

But aren’t you glad that choice was made?

I sure am 🥵

Yup. MS has been more blatant and ruthless, where Apple has quietly taken (or even just taken credit for) the works of others over the years. For Apple you’ve got the ipod click wheel (creative), the original GUI (PARC), slide to unlock (noenode)… Apple, much like MS, has been doing this sort of stuff from the start.

If the individual is the only one in charge of the project, and controls the money, there really isnt a difference.

TIL - thats neat! I use the phrase all the time, so did my dad. His dad was the first generation born in the US, somewhere from southern Ireland (not much in the way of paperwork to track before that).

I’m glad my decades old grudges against apple could be informative!

Ehhh… Apple took over CUPS development.

Michael Sweet of Easy Software Products developed CUPS in the late 90s. Apple hired Michel Sweet about a decade later and bought the source code.

After he left apple (another 10 years or so later), OpenPrinting forked it and Michael Sweet continued working on it there.

But no, Apple did not develop CUPS. I don’t blame you for thinking they did though.

Edit: Forgot to note.

Source: I’m fucking old now and was using Linux before CUPS existed. Holy shit was it great once it went IPP from LPD.

Edit 2: Sorry because Apple does this a lot and this one still annoys me - Safari was built on KHTML, aka KDE and Konqueror. So anyone trying to say that Apple made WebKit all in house would also be wrong.

Apple likes to do that. Take stuff and then pretend they made it. Especially from open source projects.

Ladybird started as a SerenityOS browser, and is now being made standalone.

Same (problematic) developer.

It wasn’t for Ladybird. It was for SerenityOS.

The irony youre laughing about isnt there.

Yeah.

It can get real ugly in tech sometimes, and I really hate seeing it.

For a long time I considered tech the more inviting and accepting bunch, but that has definitely changed over time. There’s some real gross stuff out there.

Good idea, already covered with a modified lenovo tiny though

Might do a “portable” version though!

https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1874518295350837401

https://nitter.net/awesomekling/status/1969350008538370216

Lets combine that with the contributing.md here as a response to “Your docs could be written better, I can do that”, and how he stands with DHH (note Lunduke there btw), which was a response to DHH+Ruby…

Well it kind of paints a picture. A very specific one, imo.

Lunduke, the video of the post, is also a pretty notably tech right wing, which is why I mention to note that earlier.

I will say, I think Kling hides it better than DHH, same with Vaxry, but… yeah its pretty small and specific circles that seem to gather.