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Not if the social in social media was actually referring to keeping in contact with friends and mutual support.

I'm ambivalent on social media bans as they seem rather blunt approach to the problem of algorithmic dopamine triggers. My kids don't have access to tiktok or Instagram but they are starting to get interested in joining discord communities around their interests. Online predators aside this seems a good thing. Having access to the net in the nineties is when I started to see fellow hobbyists from around the world discussing things in newsgroups. It expanded my world view.

I think the OP's analysis might have made a bit of a jump from overall levels of hobbyist maintainers to what percentage of shipping code is maintained by people in their spare time.

While the experiences of OpenSSL and xz should certainly drive us find better ways of funding underlying infrastructure you do see a higher participation rates of paid maintainers where the returns are more obvious. The silicon vendors get involved in the kernel because it's in their underlying interests to do so - and the kernel benefits as a result.

I maintain a couple of hobbyist packages on my spare time but it will never be a funded gig because comparatively fewer people use them compared to DAYJOB's project which can make a difference to companies bottom lines.

I was confused because the gif isn't from SFA, is it DISCO?

Real People's front of Judeah energy in that party.

The year of Linux on the desktop is whatever year you personally switched over.

Now I've read the article it's unnamed industry analysts and it's written by an AI. For all I know the AI has hallucinated the number.

I assume microcontrollers. Most of those are invisible to consumers.

I recently joined the ranks of 3d printer owners. The first thing I printed where a pair of risers for mounting some hall effect sensors on my garage door mechanism. Very simple shapes but super handy.

Absolutely. Linux on the desktop, f-droid on my Android phone. The fact if something irritates me enough I can download the code and fix it.

I'm lucky I have a job working with FLOSS software. I don't think I could go back to hacking on propriety code.

There have been a number of documentaries about HMP Broodmoor which is where our criminally insane prisoners tend to go.

We are essentially a mongrel nation that's been built with waves of migration to our shores. Our language is a testament to our diversity with it's many loan words and other idiosyncratic traits.

A lot of peoples have had some sort of festival in the depths of winter around the time of the solstice.