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   by foothall 5y ago

   Watch a casual users use a website or program, and for the most part they stumble their way through. Only via good design do they stumble in useful directions. Developers have better models how the program/website is arranged and so do
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   by foothall 5y ago

   I used Qubes for a few years, but gave up due to having weak control over the VM templates, and difficulty playing games. Using Qubes would allow you to familiarize yourself with VM-oriented workflows.
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   by foothall 5y ago

   I'm not particularly worldly or knowlegable, but I occasionally read non-fiction books and Wikipedia to learn. I find the news to be too event-oriented. I use RSS to keep up to date with some tech fields.
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   by foothall 5y ago

   I'm impressed how quickly Cloudflare write these educational articles during incidents. I suppose them prioririzing it acts as good marketing?
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   by foothall 5y ago

   Thanks. The OP of the link relates to the high bar that Alacritty has for contributions. I can understand this helps to keep Alacritty manageable. Leading projects sometimes involves saying no to features, as they do: https://git
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   by foothall 5y ago

   I see. Poor MacOS support isn't indicative of an unhealthy project, but I can see why MacOS users might want to avoid such projects.
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   by foothall 5y ago

   https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/1561#issuecomm... describes why the maintainer thinks the opinion was entitled. I don't think your description is accurate.
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   by foothall 5y ago

   I don't know anything about Alacritty. What is unhealthy about the project?
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   by foothall 5y ago

   +1. This can lead to corporate capture. We see this in some projects already.
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    by foothall 5y ago

    I enjoy the Linux mobile space: https://linmob.net/ is a good blog to start. That community happens to be interested in other topics such as decetralization and repairable hardware too.