Uh, you just have to take a look at recent developments with Unity and Adobe to see that closed-source software can be a huge problem?

Jellyfin has a watch-together function but to set all that up will probably be even more complex than the “complex” options …

Though I personally don’t need this (atm) I love these kind of posts, thank you very much for taking the time to write it! Share the knowledge! 😸

Very nice write-up, I love reading abput stuff like this.

So awful to hear that the dev is affected by long Covid, hope they’ll get better eventually. Wear masks, people!

for some years our rallying call was “Make Krita usable for David Revoy!”

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David Revoy! 🥰🎉

If you have the time please tell us how you solved it, it might be helpful for other people in the future with the same problem.

I cannot wait having an AI assistant on my system that hallucinates documents that are kind of like the one’s I have. Taxes are going to be fun!

No idea if you’d enjoy it but I’ve been keeping a (digital) diary since 2018 (in a .txt file) and for me it’s really fun either checking out what I did this day last year (two, three years ago) and also randomly reading around. It’s a really nice addition to having photos (and my dreams would be to somehow combine the two, easily). So many things I’d never remember without this, like the one time the electricity went out for a afternoon in my town. I’m just writing a few sentences each morning of what I did (ate, worked, watched, felt, thought) yesterday each morning.

I wonder if the Dwarf Fortress Steam Release has something to do with this … But it feels like the timeline might not check out?

Not 100% sure but I think it’s a server feature, I feel like I’ve read about it in the release notes.

I thought intro-skipping had been included in Jellyfin now but this doesn’t seem to be the case (can’t find it in release notes) … Thanks for the tip for the 10.9 plugin 😸

I feel like there is a way to copy stuff from docker-volumes to disk and then point docker to the folders on the disk as external volumes, I think I’ve done that at some point years back, but not sure how to do it exactly.

Yeah, very good points. A while ago there was talk about some kind of foundation where maintainers could bill their hours and people and big tech companies could donate. Not sure if / how that would work …

During the xz incident I also talked about this on Mastodon and someone suggested that big tech could just employ maintainers without them having to do anything for the company directly, just work on the project / library the company uses. Again not everybody would want to do that …

I’m afraid there’s no easy one-fits-all solution here.

I think the route of giving it all away for free and either offering hosting if the project needs it or (business) support is the most successful way of doing this.

I have no problems whatsoever with donation buttons / banners (like Krita does) but I’m afraid random donations is not really a sustainable model for most projects. I try to remember to donate to projects I use a lot (especially if it’s for work) but it is another thing on my todo list and not one with high priority, so I don’t do it as often as I’d like … 😓

Yeah, we could also end war and hunger and change a lot of other things if we’d all agree to do it but here we are …

Yeah, I highly doubt it as well but we can dream! 😸

Running 39 with Nvidia working mostly fine with official driver guide and a few GRUB hacks. Sleep-mode has been acting up though in the last days …

It’s a way to digitally pay money like Visa or Paypal but (FOSS and better for privacy), so you could use it for everything from online shopping (micropayments on the fediverse?!?) to paying at the supermarket. If people adopt it …

If we’re lucky that’s coming soon(ish), they have a project with a German (eco) bank going:

https://www.gls.de/privatkunden/taler

And in a recent interview they said they’re in talks with other banks (and also central banks bit they’re moving even slower than banks).