Sopuli lover

My interests are mainly music, instruments, tech, Linux and self hosting.

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  • It’s an interesting topic me and my friends have discussed for a long time. On one hand, putting ease of use and user experience behind a paywall is terrible but on the other developers deserve compensation. Not everyone can donate and others doesn’t even figure that it’s an option.

    Pangolin I think does it very kindly by having a button on the lower left of the interface that you can click on and then also dismiss to hide that button for a week which I find a good common ground. But at the same time I also think it’s hard to justify hate towards projects that lock things behind a paywall.

    Of course if you lock security features like OIDC/LDAP like some do or self-hosting to “Local Infrastructure” it’s pure BS. I think there’s a lot of nuance to what should and shouldn’t be done in the matter but as long as it’s still open source it’s good in my book. Like self hosting Bitwarden gives you access to the paid features or you can pay them the small fee to not self host it and get some extra QoL features.

    People do in the end have to juggle software maintenance, community maintenance, organizing issues, planning features and implementations, keeping wiki and docs up to date, etc. On top of, I’m assuming in most cases, having to do a regular job too. I know for a fact I wouldn’t be able to do that at all so if they can get some motivation through either code contribution or monetarily it would potentially ease up things.













  • Zelaf@sopuli.xyzto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneCorrupted ACPI Report
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    2 months ago

    I really really like this. Especially the sentiment of the text.

    For the past few months I’ve been cripplingly focused on my homelab environment trying to perfect it and fix issues only to find new issues and when I’m not I keep trying to find things to fix with it. It takes out a lot of what I should be doing in my day to day.