ashughes

You know what? Just fucking move on top of a fucking mountain and Into the wild yourself.

Workin' on it.

I like the intention behind your idea and understand the value, but I don't think this responsibility should be on the mods alone, or that it should be isolated to a single day each month.

If I may, please permit me to make a friendly amendment: make it a pinned post for the month where the community can comment the deals they're aware of. This would distribute the responsibility to us all (not burdening the mods), result in a greater number and diversity of services/sales being posted (many eyes sourcing deals), and provide a single, highly visible place to find this information without it getting lost among the other frequent posts.

Hopefully my comment is seen as helpful and respectful.

In my wiki roundup post I complained about DokuWiki’s reliance on plugins, but after scouring the landscape of FOSS wiki offerings nothing else offers exactly what I need.

This is generally how new open source projects are born. Someone can't find what they're looking for among the current offerings so they make their own, fulfilling what they perceive to be a niche use case. Once they release it, it takes on a life of its own because it turns out it wasn't a niche use case after all. Much to the horror of the dev, who now finds themselves the leader of an open source project.

Its a story as old as time.

Somewhere in the middle. I generally avoid using plugins of any sort if I can avoid it, and prefer sane defaults over customization, but I also avoid software that comes bloated with features I'll never use.

My "allowance" as a teen was $6.85/hour, though my employer and the government didn't call it that. I think the word they used to describe it was "wage".

Funny you should say that because I've also been photographing the odd storm drain on occassion too!

I've been kind of obsessed with taking photos of utility poles lately.

I agree but would add that collapse isn't an absolute end in itself and to frame it that way is boss-level doomerism. Collapse is an unavoidable part of a natural cycle that signals the beginning of a new cycle. It is an opportunity to plant the seeds of something better and watch it grow. That's not to say collapse will be easy, comfortable or harmless but we open ourselves to far greater harm by fearing collapse.

I'm sorry, I don't have an answer to your question directly. All I can tell you is how I'm managing as a resident of a Scottish isle who also struggles with businesses refusing delivery to my locale.

Unfortunately I've not been able to cut Amazon out entirely but I have managed to relegate them to a retailer of last resort. I've not found another find-everything store and instead go to different retailers for different needs.

Usually I start local, on my high street beginning with charity shops that support local causes before buying new (there's one that supports my local food bank so I try there first). If I can't find it there I widen my search to retailers on the mainland. Failing that, I broaden my search to retailers in the UK, then the EU, and only will I consider Amazon once I've exhausted all other options. Even then, sometimes its possible to buy the product I find on Amazon off Amazon (think OEMs who use Amazon as retail channel) by going to their website and buying from them directly.

Sometimes I still have to rely on Amazon but I have managed to cut my shopping with them down from sometimes multiple times a month to a couple times a year. Of course it largely depends on what I'm shopping for, but it was definitely an adjustment to break myself from the one-stop shopping experience Amazon provides.

I hope this is helpful.

Meanwhile I can't use the Bank of Scotland app on Graphene OS because apparently GOS isn't secure enough.

Worst. Captha. Ever.

Beyond that, I actually consider this to be a violation of open source, if not in letter, at least in spirit. Setting aside the debate about inclusion of LLM-generated code in open source software, I see the obfuscation of the source of that code to be robbing me of my fundamental freedom to truly study the code. It also robs me of my choice to decide where and when I interact with AI in my life.

Going further, I would love to see FSOSS projects adopt the idea that its not enough to cite what code is LLM-generated, but that citations should include the tool used, the model, and the prompt as well.

Unfortunately, this move by Lutris forces me to assume all code in Lutris is vibe-coded from this point forward, and that Lutris itself is no longer open source software.