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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • See…when it comes to open source, it’s a little different for me:

    I don’t support or condone any of these pricks, but I can mentally divorce, somewhat, the open source code contributions from the person, because their contributions are useful. If this was a closed source solution, it’d be different, because the code wouldn’t be released into the community. There are a lot of weird, closet-dwelling shut ins that fall into the extremist margins.

    A lot of early medical knowledge, for example, was acquired from…less than morally clear ways. So do you just take that information and throw it away on principal? Does that make the death and pain of those people for nothing? Or do you use it and don’t condone the person or their actions? This is a difficult moral choice to make that is heavily debated by philosophy, media, etc. There are entire SciFi TV episodes, movies, and books written about just such a debate.

    That said, I don’t know the usefulness of Hyprland. I’ve never used it and I feel like it’s pretty niche, so I’m surprised Framework aren’t telling this person to fuck off.










  • Agreed. I’ve saved so much money by RTFM. As a father of three kids, every dollar saved means a better life for my family.

    Car broken? RTFM, bought an ODBII scanner, and fixed it.

    Need air conditioning? RTFM and installed my own heat pumps in my house, saving $7000 in labor and markup.

    House has an old 60 amp fuse panel? Paid an electrician for the service upgrade, read the NEC, wired and installed all branch circuits and sub panels myself. Passed inspection. Saved $7500.

    When you take the time to learn something, you not only get the satisfaction of using your own hands to accomplish something, but you also get to save money.