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FOSScels who over not making money for their work make me laugh.
FOSS is not meant to be a career. It's a volunteer gig. If people like your work and they want to donate, throw up a link for that.
But to beg at every chance you get is just pathetic.
It's like tipcels all over again. Except no one ever forced them to do the work to begin with.
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The last project i contributed to the owner asked if i would consider attending scrum meetings for the project.
No r-slur I dont work for fricking free.
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Lol frick that.
I hated doing scrum shit even when I was paid to do it.
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I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY I HATE ORGANIZATIONAL THEORY
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I know right? Imagine expecting to know what people you're giving money to are doing and whether the thing you told them to implement that will need the coordinated actions of 3 other departments to launch successfully and was sold to a high tier revenue partner will be executed to spec and on time.
Smh code slaves are so insufferable sometimes.
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!commies
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It happens a lot I think with creative stuff.
>I like working on this
>I like working on this
>ooh someone's using my thing
>I like working on this
>ok I'm bored now give me money
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Overjustification effect kills a lot of creative stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overjustification_effect
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Interesting.
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That'd be all well and good if other devs didn't sneed when these packages don't get updates and fixes in a timely manner.
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people who dont understand that contributing to foss is an act of altruism should have their contributions rejected. if you cant manage to put foss contributions on your resume and get money from an actual job then youre either unemployable or didnt do anything worth noting on a resume which makes it worthless.
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More profitable to just go !slots100 than do foss
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holy shit frick ubuntu, these are the same cute twinks who PAYWALL SECURITY UPDATES & THROW ADS FOR IT IN MY TERMINAL and they PATCH OUT ads in real programs for people who write ACTUAL CODE instead of importing OTHER PEOPLE"S FRICKING PATCHES.
BTW the entirety of the message is 9 lines, NINE LINES that you can silence with ONE COMMAND, meanwhile canonical being a bunch of CUTE TWINKS make it PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO SILENCE THEIR UBUNTU PREMIUM ADS since they're R-SLURS who keep changing or overwriting their ad flags or w/e
HOWEVER MANY PEOPLE WORK AT CANONICAL MUST DIE
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I used to be a big Ubuntu guy but many people who made it a good project have left and it shows.
It's just cruising along waiting for MS to buy them out no doubt.
Follower of Christ Tech lover, IT Admin, heckin pupper lover and occasionally troll. I hold back feelings or opinions, right or wrong because I dislike conflict.
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I had to move distros on principal and I hold a grudge against them for that. I understand systemd haters a little more because we both have baby duck syndrome.
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Low key liking FreeBSDs update system for an LTS vibe, but still not a fan of some BSD assumptions.
I also wish they'd take a more OpenBSD approach at release time and deprecate a lot of cowtools with duplicate functionality.
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I tried getting into freebsd hands on a few times and once by just reading the manual beforehand but it's different enough to be a hassle and dosent offer enough upsides to make the effort worth it. not many dev cowtools target the BSDs natively and what I liked about ubuntu is its big enough for people to develop for, common, and mostly stable. When I switched to fedora I had to reinstall once or twice because docker hadn't built for my install version yet and the third party installer sucked.
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have you tried nixos?
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no, I've heard good things about it online & from freelancers. if fedora ever shits itself I'll give it a try. have you?
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While back I did guix and actually contributed.
It's truly a new way of thinking of an OS but it's so cool when everything comes together
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I'm so happy in the Congo9mo ago #5246925 spent 0 currency on pingsI feel bad for those coders doing low-level projects that never get recognized. Their work does matter.
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Snapshots:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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