There’s a YouTuber named Memoria Matters who has an inside joke that she’s trying to popularize the idiom “too many dogs on the dance floor”. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t have any particular meaning, however. It came up quite a few times during her Alien: Isolation let’s play, however.

It was Zero Cool. Definitely Zero Cool.

I’ll take FOSS over the proprietary software we can be sure will do malicious things to us any day.

Does nobody remember Bearshare?

Probably if you’re too lazy to grab a cord, line it up with the plug, and press gently but firmly. With wireless, you can just lob it vaguely in the right vicinity and not overstrain your fine motor skills.

The only thing worse than reading documentation/tutorials about how to do things in GUIs is writing documentation about how to do things in GUIs. It’s just screenshot after screenshot. And following it is like playing a ScummVM game, only less fun and lots more alt+tabbing.

I don’t know anything really about Stormux, but ArchLinuxARM is honestly going down the tubes. I use it a lot, but I’m pretty well decided to switch away from it.

The ArchLinuxARM package repos are constantly ridiculously out of date, and the folks in charge of ArchLinuxARM a) aren’t doing anything to fix it and b) won’t let the community help or even talk about the issue. (They lock threads and otherwise shut down conversation on the topic.)

It’s a bummer. Arch is a great OS (coughasidefromsystemdcough) and it’s nice to be able to run it on a Raspberry Pi. But as it is, it’s hard to see it as usable for real-world use cases. Maybe someone someday will create a new Arm-focused version of Arch (maybe Arch proper will even decide to start supporting Arm) unrelated to the existing ArchLinuxARM project. But for now, it’s terrible.

How old is your phone and have you been updating it? Maybe your phone is so old that the certificates on it are too old to recognize the current Discord certificate?

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Winnocott’s term “Good Enough Parenting” may be at least a little bit related to what you’re looking for.

I suppose other options could be along the lines of “read these 30 dense psychology books or get a degree in psychology.”

Unfortunately, I don’t think I have much better answers for you, but I’d be interested to hear a succinct answer to this too.

Lessee. Username’s a reference to Snow Crash, which is a cyberpunk book. Played the game “years ago”. The game must have a name not so connected to the content that OP would have already remembered the name before posting.

I’m going to guess Shadowrun for the SNES.

Nope.

For a minute, I was thinking it might be that someone made a bot that just made posts generated by ChatGPT with no supervision, but then looking at OP’s post history, there’s no way AI could think up this.

I’ve been on Lemmy for a pretty long-ass time and have yet to get Nicoled.

Nicole, why won’t you notice me? 🥺👉👈

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If you’re looking for recommendations, everything by Missie Elliot is worth listening to.

She might be mainstream/well-known enough that it kindof “goes without saying”, but just in case you’re not familiar with her.

Depends what you mean by “fork”, really. I could clone it down, change something trivial, and run that on my phone for my own personal use. And that would qualify as a “fork” and be allowed by the license.

But I can’t disagree that a well-maintained, long-lived, publicly-available fork (like, MPV was forked from MPlayer2 or Libreoffice from OpenOffice) seems very unlikely.

And I’d doubt a third party accepting donations even if they operated on a non-profit basis could be done given the wording.

What theoretically could be done is that a FOSS drop-in replacement for GrayJay (even one compatible with GrayJay plugins, many of which I’ve heard are actually FOSS.) Though anyone who undertook that would have to be careful to make it happen in a proper well-documented clean-room fashion.

Damn. Am I about to defend FUTO/GrayJay?

The license is a lot better than it was previously. (And by that I mean it’s less worse than a basic MIT-style FOSS license, not that it’s “good”.) Now it does allow derivative works (just not derivative works that remove the “pay FUTO” button, and it doesn’t allow selleing GrayJay or derivative works, and it requires a “prominent” notice if you’ve made changes.)

And the old version had a bit about how FUTO could change the terms at any time for no reason, which basically made it entirely useless.

You can not fork it and retain ownership of the code.

Technically, MIT-style licenses (let alone copy-left licenses) don’t either, I’m pretty sure. Though that’s more true in one sense of the GrayJay Core License than of Open Source licenses.

Yeah, I’m salty at them for diluting the term “Open Source”.

And, yes, I’m more aligned with the Free Software movement than the Open Source movement. But in practice, all Open Source software is also Free Software, as long as they’re not misusing the term “Open Source” like FUTO recently apologized for. (Though this page still says “All FUTO-funded projects are expected to be open-source or develop a plan to eventually become so.” which I think is just a holdover from before they promised to stop misusing the term “Open Source” that they haven’t caught and fixed yet.)

But still, their license is kindof shitty. And maybe it’s just a narcissism of small diffrences thing, but it feels more nefarious in some ways than just a straight-forwardly proprietary license would be.

Anyway, no chance I’ll ever use GrayJay unless they some day decide to put it under a properly FOSS license. Even if only because there’s no way I’m going to go to the trouble of side-loading it or any Android app store other than the F-Droid I’ve got on my no-Google-apps LineageOS phone now.

And just in general purposefully and maliciously misusing terms like “Open Source” and “FOSS” is a pretty transparent capitalist scumbag move. And the “apology” for doing so is hardly an apology. They spend more of the apology casting shade at FOSS than apologizing. And then they have the gall to tell people that their shitty-ass GrayJay license is some panacea of consumer freedom or privacy? It’s worse than any Open Source license. If they really wanted to address the consumer privacy and freedom isuses in tech, they’d use AGPL. But no, their “improvement” on the BSD/MIT-style licenses is “don’t make any versions without ‘pay FUTO money’ buttons and don’t charge for it.” Good fucking job, FUTO, you fixed enshittification.

Bah. Yeah. I’m pissed at FUTO.

Thanks for your post. You’re getting lots of downvotes, but I upvoted. Folks ought to know how scummy FUTO is. I don’t really blame Rossman directly so much (though, honestly, I haven’t really followed him enough to know.) I suspect he may just be kinda clueless about FOSS and got swept up in FUTO’s rhetoric (even though there’s no substance behind their rhetoric) that they’re going to fix the industry or whatever. He just got pissed at Apple about their hostility to device repair (based), but then got hoodwinked by scummy capitalist bullshit.

But it does mean that our brains have religious experience as an in-built function (which, as you described, has been needlessly enshrined in religious institutions), which might mean that being able to have these experiences is an important part of being able to survive, or maybe even to thrive, as a human being, which also means as a community.

And that’s a take that I couldn’t have put as well as you did, and I wholeheartedly agree with.

I think whatever cognitive faculties separate us from “the animals” (or at least some animals) comes at a cost. Most animals live very in the moment. We’re largely the only creatures that have panic attacks because of some imagined future event, and we worry constantly. The default mode network and the internal monologue let us plan for the future, but also makes us worry for the future, which is definitely maladaptive.

Religious experiences let us greatly mitigate that by showing us, even if only temporarily (and sometimes people can achieve permanence in this), by suspending the DMN and internal monologue.