Mamma mia!

Damn, I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near when he’s serving breakfast.
That drawing is absolutely awesome, thank you for that!

Dwarf bread is rock-hard (and indeed contains various rocks such as gravel), never goes stale, and is terribly sustaining. A traveller can go for miles, just knowing there’s dwarf bread in their pack. A traveller can think of just about anything to eat rather than dwarf bread, including their own foot.
Various forms of dwarf bread can be used as weapons, e.g. battle muffins and drop scones.
Proper dwarf bread has to be not just baked, but forged and dropped in rivers and dried out, and sat on and left, and looked at every day and then put away again. For preference, its use as a cat’s litter box is also recommended.
Dwarfs generally devour it with their eyes, because even dwarfs have trouble with devouring it any other way.

(from various Discworld novels)

3 coins is more than 2, so it’s for men.
Cause they earn more.

You don’t even need hardware for it. Barrier is a software solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KiOMjqykbU&t=734s

Depends on your definition of free speech.

If that’s “you can post literally anything and there is no moderation”, then likely none.

Cause it would attract pedophiles sharing child sexual abuse material, drug traders and Nazis making lists of targets.
Why should anyone pay upkeep to host that? No advertiser will go near it, and it’s only a matter of time before the cops take it down and arrest people.

If it’s “post anything that isn’t blatantly illegal everywhere”, then try 8kun. But unmoderated platforms do not attract rational discourse:
Warning: Screenshot includes hate speech

X isn’t about free speech:

https://www.politico.eu/article/musks-x-suspends-opposition-accounts-turkey-protest-civil-unrest-erdogan-imamoglu-istanbul-mayor/

Also, the quickest way to get new software versions, in most cases.

git drunk

Surely, if nobody is using the software, then there’s no incentive to keep making it.

Making a tool you or the company you work for need yourself, fun, learning, community, doing good, showing off, status, being remembered, (even if it’s just in a circle of 10 people)…

Marketing generates interest. Interest gets users. Users (hopefully) get donations and/or contributions to the project.

Irrelevant for the vast majority of open source projects, which will never be financially profitable.

why not be clear and avoid wasting people’s time as they try to figure out what exactly a project is about?

Maybe because the volunteers working on the project in their free time are programmers, not marketers or good communicators?
Also, they aren’t wasting anybody’s time by creating useful software and giving it away for free.

I realize I’m being confrontational towards you, but this mindset of demanding things from people who literally give away free stuff with no strings attached rubs me the wrong way, every single time. And this mindset is much too prevalent, even to the point of harassing, insulting and threatening open source devs for choices they make in their projects.

The devs owe you nothing. If you don’t like what they do, simply don’t use it.
There are other options out there, but they may come with a $23/month price tag.

Open Source software is not a product that needs marketing.
The devs making Gimp gain literally nothing from you downloading and using it.
Stop applying capitalist logic to one of the few aspects of life that haven’t been monetized yet.

They are the opposite of “set it and forget it”.
Probably the most maintenance-heavy distros out there.
They’re like Arch, if the Arch maintainers didn’t care about keeping the system working.

Kids these days…
Avocados used to be an important resource in the tech industry, since they were the only reliable source of new mouse balls.
After the invention of optical mice, experiments showed that the flesh around the mouse ball has an alternative use, for keeping millenials too poor to revolt.

German is spoken in different versions by Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Luxembourgers and that one Belgian.

I speak the correct version.

It’s supposed to be Richmark Shuttleman

lol, just checked. ~/Documents doesn’t even exist on my machine.

Just a heads-up: Synaptic doesn’t come preinstalled on Debian or Ubuntu anymore.
It’s 25 years old software, and tends to behave weirdly when you try to uninstall multiple packages.

A gearbox is much smaller and lighter that what’s required for a diesel-electric setup.
Diesel-electric is used for big engines in ships and railroads, where the necessary torque would destroy a gearbox.

Gnome Maps is honestly really good!
Not everything has to be inside your browser.