linuxPIPEpower

thanks I will read that!

my industry is so unaware of this sort of thing that it would literally never occur to anyone to include it in a contract or even policies. i've never heard of it being discussed.

I am not worried about personal legal problems. I intend to distribute for free to other people doing similar jobs who are not competitors. I guess the worst is that someone could make me change it or something? I would probably never be in a position to enforce anyway.

It is primarily an educational intervention for other users. So I don't want to do it wrongly enough that it causes confusion.

I like light themes and agree that they can be done well. Overall my problem with dark themes is they are too low contrast everything melts into everything else. Who doesn't want a distinct border around a window?

I made a proto mail account recently and got the message about this.

But since i dont have a gmail account I cant do it. I think there was another one that was impractical also.

How do you prove the gmail thing? Without providing them your gmail info?

I agree the debian website is exremely confusing. I was wandering around for ages with a dozen tabs open trying to find the actual download link I need.

I think i read that it uses an old version of electron or something? Do i recall correctly?

I dont know how to code but i have made contribs on repos. For documentation and stuff.

Some repos are very complex and some are simple. It is typically roughly corrolated to size: larger projects = more complex. And then it depends on the language/platform/toolchain being used. Some of them can be very ellaborate. If you dont typically work on that kind of project the set up can be very difficult as you are starting from scratch with dependencies, might need dev versions, can be a whole thing.

Also there are some things which are organizational choices made by the maintainers. A couple of times i was unable to contribute to docs because they werent seperated from the rest of the project and just to edit markdown files you had to install a whole dev toolchain and who knows what. I gave up before getting anywhere. Whereas others have different components segregated nicely.

Then there is quality control stuff having to do with testing, formating and such. You might only find out about that once you've got through everything else and time comes to make a PR.

Start out by using git and github or alternative for yourself to learn the basics. Then pick a smaller, explicitly beginer friendly project to make some minor contributions. Something with a few maintainers and regular contributions from others is generally a good balance. Look for an updated CONTRIBUTING file or equivilant section in the documentation.

I think making a few markdown contribs first is probably advisable even for programers because most of the time it is more simple.

Unless there is a signature option i asssume doing it by hand also. Its like 3x retro.

I think thats called taxes!

There should be more government funding for floss. Both by prioritizing floss projects to use and direct funding to projects that arent useful to govts.

I think it depends on the project. Some maintainers really only want extremely comprehensive bug reports that realistically only another dev could produce. All kinds of logs, sometimes requiring special packages installed to produce them.

Which makes sense because someone just saying "it crashes sometimes" doesnt provide much to go on.

Union organizing and intersectionality can only improve things.

ah wonderful!

Your GNU/Linux is infected with 87 proprietary packages out of 5290 total installed.
Your Stallman Freedom Index is 98.36

boooooooooo!!!

Somehow my wifi drivers have become non-free? I am pretty certain I selected the free variant during install. Though come to think of it I wasn't clear how assertive that option was. I do think there are free drivers for this.. hmm.

As FYI for anyone reading this,you need to use -f to get a complete list. It only shows me about a dozen even though it says there 87! The information is carefully hidden.

This thread is hurting my brain

i live like this all the time. :/ wouldn't wish it on anyone else. sorry to inflict my cognition on you but I appreciate your time :D