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I did, in fact! I bought Immich for $100, and you know what? I don't regret a god damn thing. It has been a stellar replacement for Google Photos, which was an app I depended on every day for, God, like 10 years now?

I don't even understand that. The still-thriving, 30-year history of video game warez really says otherwise.

Just speaking as someone in the field, you would be surprised at how many IT decisions happen the way they do because nobody wants to be the one who gets called when an ornery geriatric complains that LibreOffice doesn't have the 'mail merge' button in the right place.

The old saying goes, "nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco."

I would consider it a privilege to live long enough to see the EU invest in and adopt FOSS software as a matter of national security.

Like all things FOSS & Libre, when a place as large as Europe benefits from the investment, so too do all of us benefit in kind.

It is the natural order of things; programmers love to program so much that they will do it for free, independent of any profit motive. We only see programmers charging money for their work because you basically need to sell something to survive in our Bootstrappist hellscape. Improving material conditions wouldn't just make life better for everyone, it would also result in better, newer software, delivered faster.

Wendy Kerby is off limits!

Doesn't matter. I was a bike messenger for 5 years. We all carried our U-Locks, some carried crowbars, batons, pistols, bear mace, stun guns... None of that matters when someone in a 2 ton death missile can basically light you out from behind faster than you can react.

The problem is and forever will be drivers.

Something something of the deed

Homie is really out here playing devil's advocate on behalf of cancer.

I buy things that are a one-time purchase sometimes entirely because I was given the option.

"y'know, they call 'em fingers, but I never see them 'fing.' Oh, wait, there they go."

Reporters are just common workers like you and me, except, they have a ridiculously dangerous job that was so important that it was considered by Thomas Jefferson as the "fourth estate." The idea behind "democracy dies in darkness" was one born from class struggle, and I think we should see the removal of that slogan in that context.

I chose not to have kids not because I didn't ask to be born, but because I am fully aware that I do not have what it takes to be a good parent. I have major issues with sensory overload, and little kids are basically little perfect generators for unpredictable noise and smells.

If I had conceived a kid accidentally, of course I'd spend every last ounce of energy I had in me making sure that they had a lovely childhood. But IMO, being able to recognize this simple fact is what separates me from my own parents, and them not being able to recognize that simple fact is what robbed me of having a childhood at all.