Thanks for the reply! I was thinking more along the lines of “open hardware” — either a mouse manufactured by a larger company so that it can be easily repaired, with the manufacturer happy to sell you spare parts (something like Framework laptops), or a mouse designed by an internet enthusiast that you can assemble yourself from off-the-shelf components and 3D-printed parts.

I once saw a build-it-yourself kit for an ultra-light mouse somewhere. I naively assume that such a mouse would be easy to repair. Alas, that kit would cost me my kidney.

A somewhat on-topic question: Is there an easily fixable mouse that wouldn’t cost me a kidney?

I like the way the new wave of CRPGs — Pillars of Eternity, Tyranny, etc. — deals with this problem. Of course you have a journal with a quest log and a lore encyclopedia. In addition to that, if you hover over highlighted words (names, lore things) during dialogue, it shows you a short explanation.

It shouldn’t be that hard. Use Shellcheck to check for mistakes. Good luck!

It might be possible with inotify.

Rust’s licensing is also problematic. The license has been worded in such a vague way that it may or may not allow forking or re-implementation. It may or may not require deleting all references to the word “rust” from a fork or re-implementation.

All of that is fully compatible with FSF and OSI definitions. There is nothing new in requirement that forks use a different name.

To add to this: Rust is dual-licensed under the MIT and Apache licenses, both of which are permissible and compatible with GPLv3. There’s nothing stopping anyone forking Rust and creating Stallman’s Rust licensed under GPLv3. I genuinely do not understand that paragraph.

I’ll look into how to make it draw less power. Thanks! That didn’t really cross my mind.

Why not use RPi Zero? That would require buying additional hardware. I’d rather use what I already have.

Neat idea! If I were that orderly (I’m more of the mindset that what I don’t remember probably wasn’t important), I’d set up a normal website. I enjoy writing HTML by hand.

I did not know that Amazon sold digital music. But it kills me that Amazon and Apple are the two big choices. Out of the frying pan into the fire…

I thought that Tidal was a streaming service, and that you can rip music from there like you can from Youtube or Spotify.

Almost every time I look on Bandcamp, the artist I am looking for isn’t there. :( Also, last time I tried buying something there they only accepted PayPal which I stopped using a while ago. But it seems they accept normal card payments now. Neat.

I buy CDs – I even bought a CD drive to rip them – but international shipping really kills me. I guess brick-and-mortar music shops are still a thing…

Thanks for the info. I won’t even try then.

So it can block ads in Google Chrome on my moms phone? Then I’ll have to figure out how to set it up!

Do you often run into issues when blocking traffic like this? I can imagine some software (i.e. Samsung’s or Google’s bloatware) kicking up a fuss.

That sounds cool as heck! But I am very confused about how television broadcasting works in the UK. This only works with some sort of over-the-internet TV, right?

I was trying to set up a scan server last week. No luck yet. 😅

Paperless ngx looks looks amazing. I was actually thinking of finding a solution for this type of thing as pdfgrep was getting kinda slow.

I’ll add Jellyfin to the list! Do you need a specific client to receive a stream or can say VLC or mpv do it?

I like the music server idea! Where do you get your music? Many artists don’t even sell CDs nowadays.

Home assistant is probably not for me. The house I live in is still very analogue. I enjoy not having to debug software when investigating why there’s no hot water.

I use an adblocker on both my PC and my phone. Does a Pi-hole have many advantages over that?

Nextcloud seems a be an alternative to the G-Suite, did I get that right? That move to the cloud kinda missed me. I’m happy with LibreOffice and having everything stored locally.

Do you have experience with running a single-user Lemmy instance? I remember trying out some smaller instances, and they weren’t as federated (i.e. I could see less content) than on the bigger ones.

That’s a fair point. Still, I think it’s also worth acknowledging that getting paid to develop open-source software can often be more difficult than getting paid for proprietary work. According to Tidelift State of Open Source Maintainer report, 44 % of FOSS maintainers aren’t getting paid for their work but would like to. Interestingly, 36 % of FOSS maintainers are getting some monetary compensation.¹

(I’m responding mostly because I found that survey. Interesting numbers.)

¹ I thought this number would be smaller. Alas, I am a pessimist.

I wrote a whole comment in which I mused about the reason why Sublime Text isn’t open-source. However, a brief search found one developer’s answer: They just don’t think that typical FOSS funding is sustainable for their particular project.