Oh lawd, another thing to check out

Both GIMP 3 RC1 and FreeCAD 1.0 in the same month, damn

People on Hacker News are speculating that they implicitly define forking as “taking the project in a different direction in an independent repo”. The Github TOS say that everyone has the right to create a fork of any public repo in the Github sense of the word. It’s all a huge mess…

They have the audacity to use the term copyleft for that bullshit license… It doesn’t mean anything unless you have the right to fork it.

Linux all the way, for loads of practical and ethical reasons

I used to think open source applications were simply the inferior alternative that you choose when you don’t have the money for the real thing, but then I started to notice how Blender suddenly looked almost equivalent to the industry standard apps when update 2.8 came out. That made me question my previous position. Fast forward a few years, I now proudly use Linux and FOSS applications whenever I can.

It being free is only barely enough incentive to use it. If they ever have effective anti-adblock and force users to watch five ads before every video, I’m gone. I will never give any money to a monopolistic company if I don’t have to.

The screen looks like absolute trash sadly. Doesn’t even compare to what was available 5 years ago. I wish hobbyists had access to even somewhat modern technology…

Stock gnome feels a bit slow to me, but I love using it with custom keybinds for launching applications. Making good use of workspaces and multiple monitors makes it even better.

Compare the legacy Wikipedia design with the new one. Limiting the line width makes it so much easier to read, cause you don’t loose your place as often when you jump to the next line. This is especially infuriating to me, cause some languages still use the old design. I always loathe using German Wikipedia cause of this.

I agree that it can be bad when lines are excessively short, or when designers make no adjustments for desktop browsers.

Flat UIs with a few shadows in the right places can look geat

That’s not mobile first, it’s mobile only. Pretty much half of my web design course was the professor ranting about designs that don’t adapt to the device they are being viewed on, and how to do that right.

Single page apps are cool when they are done right, but such a huge hindrance when navigation is based on buttons and js.

I can drive manual, but I hate it. I don’t want to worry about releasing the clutch just right to avoid jerk, so I bought an electric car. Certainly was expensive, but it’s infinitely more smooth than a manual transmission could ever be. 23 year old, living in Germany.

It’s shit like this that keeps me from building any kind of trust in MS-owned open source projects.

When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back. Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down… with the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!

- Cave Johnson, Portal 2

Maybe not words to live by, but certainly a memorable quote.