It burns you out pretty quick. I have a popular library and had to turn off gh issues. So many llm/fake bug reports. Huge waste of time and effort. Github has gone downhill.

I have a project with a raspberry pi 2 and small screen that works with the command line very well. I want to stay in there.

The issue with just using other txt options is that bookmarks, dictionaries, and just knowing where I left off would be difficult. Plus I only have a couple of mapped keys.

Yeah it sucks. I know there are alternatives like the orange pi that are cheaper but the software support just isnt as good.

End of an era.

I woudnt be making nearly as much as I do now if not for my degree. It opened a lot of doors when times were tough.

Last year we had around 20ish. So yeah, lots more people.

Steam has some upsides most take for granted.

The work they do to get all the strange controller setups working (and let others make configurations) is a huge time saver when all you want to do is play your games.

Free cloud saves are a life saver when you go from device to device.

The Linux work they do is fantastic.

It goes on and on. But yeah the biggest deal is that if they ever go full corpo....we are in trouble.

I think a good test is to shut off your house internet and see what things you still need. Like actually disconnect the router and only go off your own infa. What can you get done, what things do you still need?

For me I found out:

1. All my software development packages, linux isos, etc.... are ALL online. If I was unable to get on certain websites, I would be SOL in doing most of my software development. Even simple stuff like installing via apt would be VERY hard.
2. While I have OSM (open street maps), I dont have address info saved anywhere.
3. Most of my mesh stuff (meshtastic) has online tools for all the builds and deploys. Meaning if the website goes down im SOL getting new nodes out in the wild.
4. Entertainment is pretty much covered, since we dont have anything streaming anyways. We try to keep things DRM free to begin with so books/audio/movies can go to different places without worry.
5. Radio still works, so news isnt really a big deal.
6. I need to get a backup of some encyclopedias and/or get wikipedia somewhere hosted. That would be fun and informative.

Yes join the dosins of us 🥧

Incredibly powerful music.

Sorry common programmer lingo. It means Pull Request.

Someone reviewed a thing I did, gave it the ok and we threw it into a program (piefed). Now we see said thing the wild.

Im seriously surprised how fast all that went! Like it was an idea, PR, merge, out on my yunohost in a week or two. Thats insane iteration!

Thanks again for the PR/help!

Their stocks went DOWN lol.