That sounds frustrating, I can see why you might be discouraged when it feels like nobody cares about your project.

I am not a marketing guru, my projects also have nobody paying attention to them, but I do know that if you want collaboration you usually have to ask for it. Let people know; post about your project and explain your goals and ask people for help. It’s never guaranteed that people will see the value in what you’re doing, but they probably won’t if you make it closed-source either. You’re blaming the wrong things here, my friend.

Still, good luck with your project, and good on you for posting it on codeberg, that’s a great first step to getting some interest!

I don’t think this list is fair at all.

no community on irc/discord/matrix/xmpp to ask about (yes, i talk about you @libreoffice )

LibreOffice has a help page with a bunch of methods to find community support, including Discourse, a bug tracker, Mastodon, and a bunch of other avenues (and yes, they have an IRC channel also) to find help.

assholes in communities if such exist (yes i talk about archlinux and @godot )

The Godot community is one of the nicest around, maybe second only to Blender’s community. But you are right, assholes are everywhere. I got news for you though, bud: there are assholes in the communities around closed-source projects too; far more of them, usually.

enshittification and slowly going back to not being opensource (yes i talk about @mozilla )

You are claiming that a reason why people don’t use open-source is because… they don’t use open-source? Circular reasoning is not an argument for anything, you might as well just not have included this bullet to begin with. If you avoid open-source just because “Mozilla might not use open-source for everything” then you’re just punishing yourself for no reason.

small opensource can do nothing until big opensource does the step

You can always be the change you want to see. You don’t need permission from “big opensource”, whatever that even means. Every project starts small, with an idea and some code added to a repository that is shared with others for feedback and/or collaboration. You don’t have to limit yourself because others aren’t doing their project the way you think they should.

This is such a great response. I learned something from you today, thank you.

Also, Plex email blasted a few weeks ago about how nobody can share their libraries anymore without paying for a subscription. That was the push I needed to check out Jellyfin again, and the experience ranges from “good enough” to “that’s better than Plex” for me and my buddies.

Damn, that’s unfortunate, but good to know. Thanks for the info.

This seems like a really nice tool, congrats!

Too bad there is so much focus on AI though. The UI looks nice, and templating and being able to schedule posts would be super handy, but I don’t need an AI to write things for me. I find that using AI is ethically icky anyhow; I’d rather not have it in any of the tools I use.

Is it possible to disable all the AI features when using Postiz? Like, a boolean setting in the deployment configs would be great.

The phrase “for profit” is probably referring to the corporation’s structure. It isn’t related to whether the corporation is currently profitable.

Dunno if it would meet your needs, but I’ve been using Input Remapper for binding macros to various key presses and mouse buttons under Wayland. It does prompt for root access, but it’s a GUI. It supports any input method, as far as I can tell. It even supports my tablet.

I use it to bind stuff like hold(key(BTN_LEFT).wait(100)) to some button to repeatedly left click while I’m holding that button down.

What you’re saying here may be a valid concern, I don’t know. I gotta say though, the way you’re presenting it discourages people from taking you seriously.

The dramatic language, exclamation points everywhere, the OVERUSE of ALL CAPS for EMPHASIS and so on makes this feel like some Qanon nonsense from Aunt Karen, and the eyes glaze over very quickly while trying to decipher it.

Just a friendly note for future posts, you can take it or leave it.

Your original post doesn’t say Fahrenheit anywhere though. I mean, I’m a USian so I knew what you meant by “freedom degrees” but I don’t think it’s fair to act like everyone in the world who might see this post would know that phrase means Fahrenheit.

Single digit temperatures. One can always wear more clothing to keep warm, but can only get so naked in triple digit heat before dying from exhaustion or dehydration.

Yeah, Readarr is very awkward to use, but still sad to see going away. If the main problem is just a usable metadata server, maybe someone can save the project without much trouble.

Lidarr is similarly strange with it’s focus on artists and albums only, and apparently refusing to implement song search.

I feel like the developers of these two projects don’t actually use their own software to encounter the huge pain points, but maybe they have a use case that I don’t understand.

Your website is refreshingly simple and also manages to be unique looking. I like it!

I have been dating non monogamously for something like 15 years now. It’s not without it’s unique challenges, but most of the problems people have with polyamory are actually problems they have with monogamy as well, it’s just easier to avoid dealing with certain things (like relationship insecurity) when monogamy allows people to pretend they aren’t happening or to lionize expressing them negatively (as jealousy, for example).

In my opinion, even if you decide it’s not for you, exploring non monogamy is very likely going to give you better tools and healthier perspectives than you’d have if you remained “safely” monogamous your entire life.

Boards as in breadboards, I guess. That title assumes the reader will have a certain context.

I got excited thinking it was about managing board activity for nonprofits formed by developers.

Still, seems like a nice tool for people who do breadboarding!

I do this so much by accident in desktop mode on the Steamdeck with a Steam controller. I dunno why big picture mode is apparently bound to pressing the Steam button on the controller (not every time, just sometimes!), but why is it even bound to anything when I’ve just switched intentionally to desktop mode? Why would I switch away from gaming mode just to enable big picture? What’s the use case that they’re catering to here by making it so easy to accidentally be in this situation?

Anyhow, pretty amazing that this minor annoyance is almost the only thing to complain about with my Steamdeck experience. Best gaming console I’ve ever had.

Couldn’t you do that with Firefox? It stores all that stuff locally already, doesn’t it? Just disable sync and use whatever software you prefer to watch those directories.

Edit: here’s how you can figure out where the settings and bookmarks are stored locally on your system: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data

OBS could do that, I suppose. Add a screen capture source, and place a color source behind it sized 10px larger than the screen capture rect. Hit record.

right click menu icons

I think they might be referring to icons next to menu items in the right click menu.

I think those icons can be handy sometimes, but I find them to be massively overused in KDE especially, to the point that it feels visually overwhelming sometimes. Having zero icons at all in GNOME might be the other extreme, but I appreciate how clean it looks.

Blender using icons strategically to visually group related items is probably the best of both worlds.

Are there rust haters? I guess there must be, but I don’t think I’ve run across that so much as the “everything ever made must be rewritten in rust” crowd, and then everyone else who doesn’t much care what language is used as long as it works.