Canoe camping is great. You can pack tons of stuff inside a canoe without issue.

Also interesting for podcasts accessible by subscription only.

Your disdain for lower class people is repulsive.

The pen is mightier than the sword because you can bring your pen to many places where you can’t bring a sword.

GRT is one of the strongest ideological narratives of current racists.

Back in the days of the Nazis, the number of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe and Africans forms France was tiny compared to the millions of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa into Europe today.

Could you elaborate a bit?

People make and take illicit drugs all the time. What’s the difference here?

Yes, the software might depend on outdated technology like oil burner heating and you want to transition to solar with a heat pump.

Negative Karma on a post means people cared enough about your writing to downvote it.

The longer you live in a place the more crap you will accumulate in your home. Windows need to be cleaned. Walls need to be painted. There’s this one tap, that’s fixed with some wire and tape.

Tech debt is like that just for software.

Transitioning a tech stack will lead to tons of unforeseen problems and also add zero new features. It’s only very rarely useful.

Yes, very easy > explore > hashtags > select follow icon in top right

There are hashtags on Mastodon as well.

Twitter is people based as well, no?

This is for the staff, not the patients.

You need a couple of people to follow, then it’s great! I met most of my Twitter folks on conferences and such. The majority has now moved to Mastodon. It’s mostly programming folks.

Mountain Duck and Cryptomator

Maybe donate 50 cents for every hour you used the software and it was useful to you.

That would be 1000 €$ per year if you work with Linux full time.

Let’s see some commercial software:

Microsoft Office 365 is 70 $€ per year. Adobe Suite around 700 $€ per year. IntelliJ IDEA about 170 $€ per year. Affinity Suite is 170 $€ once. Reaper is 60 €$ for a discounted license. Full featured media player like Elmedia costs 20 $€. BBEdit costs 60.

The FOSS windows and Mac FTP client Cyberduck asks for a minimum 10 €$ donation. It won’t prompt you for a donation if you bought a license. The Duck applications are all pretty nice.

You can use Zoom without an account, just a link. Signal requires a smart phone and number to sign up. Zoom also supports far bigger groups for video than Signal. Not an alternative really.

You are right, I remember something about Linux users paying more than Windows users and Apple users paying the most for HumbleBundle. The number of small paid applications is low compared to macOS.

Corporations and governments are already paying Red Hat or similar companies for their services and development. Their use cases aren’t the same as the average desktop users though. Linux makes for a great thin client for web applications for example. That’s very far from Audio and video workstation applications.

your main issue is that you just have some strong software preferences

Yes, I want to use applications and do something productive with them. An operating system shouldn’t be an end in itself.

I avoid browser based software because the UX is always a bit icky. It does fill lots of niches for special software you are right.

I have often found that if I can pay for the software it will be better

Yes, developers need to eat, pay rent, etc. Culturally Linux users don’t like paying for software. That in turn leads to the indie developer scene you see on macOS for example to be very small.

Even donating to FOSS projects I use can be a hassle. And of course I can’t feasibly donate to the developers of all the packages on a Linux distribution. It would be cool to pay a monthly subscription, that’s then distributed among the software I use or have installed. That could be integrated into a package manager even. I don’t know if any Linux distro does something like it.