Open source is the modern marvel that nobody talks about. Like the industrial revolution or the building of the pyramids. I know it's preaching to the choir on lemmy. Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.

Sometimes I wonder how much the average person can comprehend the scale of what has been accomplished over the past few decades. I'm sure they attribute it to the power of the corporations' drive for profit. None of that would have happened without the combined effort of people around the world building out one software library or application at a time. There's a behemoth underneath the shiny corporate tech products that is the real achievement.

Some say, born to late to yadda born to soon to whatever. Guy, we have lived in very interesting times. You just haven't been looking. We've lived through the middle of something incredible. I'm sure Jim Ramses was super annoyed at another brick to haul back in 10000BC so the pharaoh can have his stupid tomb or whatever. He wasn't thinking, they're going to be nuts over this stuff in a few millennia.

That being said, I think open source is facing existential trials in the near future.

Huh, this is something I have never thought of, and I'm not really sure what it's for... but it sounds like the idea is that you say upfront "play me the next 3 episodes of this show", and then it plays 3 automatically, and after the third takes you back to the menu? Fascinating.

They've taken forever to pull that extension realthunder made into the actual project.

I assume this is a sarcastic reference to KDE Plasma, but in case you dont know, KDE does that and i love it

On cachyOS, it has this feature but there is no upper bound to how much it increases. So if you just keep shaking it, it grows to fill the entire screen. Lol

I too want some things to grow when I wiggle them 😏

I can fix her

I'm sure dev has abandoned it completely.

I'm still pissed that Google essentially hostaged every browser into not supporting JXL in favor of AVIF because cheap ass google wanted to save on future cloud storage costs.

Firefox literally had JXL years ago but it was a "test feature" you needed to enable manually.

Now all of a sudden Chrome gets support and Firefox follows like the good little dog Mozilla is.

At this point I should just set invent.kde.org as my new tab page.

Starting at a new company that uses Gitlab instead of Github was a culture shock for sure. I still slip up and say PR sometimes instead of MR

I'm waiting for Linux 7.4 to drop so I can have non-Steam games working with my Switch 2 Pro Controller out of the box.

KeepassXC autotype on wayland.

Just a few more years....

Edit: Holy shit nvm, literally release 2 days ago. I am happy.