That’s actually what I think of as how the open source works. It’s not that millions of people are working for you to have things all the time. It’s just that instead of making something and letting it be lost in some hard drive they share it. If something has enough interest, use value, and passion from the creator then the work will continue.

Some programs with heavy industry use, or a passionate user base will be successful, but even the niche small programs are there so if someone wants to continue the work they can.

Vs the same little programs from companies that are not open source will be just lost, you can’t get the source and continue even if you want to. Even they will discard the source, or the guy that worked on it will be gone and noone knows anything.

So appreciate open source, even if it doesn’t work for all the cases, it is better because it can continue, the effort isn’t lost. Open source licenses don’t promise future maintenance, they are just available as they are

Sure, but the compute isn’t free. Our brains are way more optimized than anything else we can build. And it’s not even accurate enough for most tasks it is being used/advertised for.

And all the data centers they are building is taking away the energy and water we allocated for human use, we don’t have infinite resources.

I don’t want to drive, give me walkable cities and public transportation

And it’s important to remember, when everyone thought slavery was all good because it’s free labor, it cost government a lot of money to remove it because they had to pay the slave owners compensation. That’s disregarding the human rights and plethora of problems.

For “I’m fiscally right” people, your money will go towards all these extravaganza when it inevitably doesn’t bring back the money expended on it.

Touch typing means a whole different thing now lol

I’d love if they had reasonable targets that being efficient made you have feee time.

When I asked my boss how do I manage 40 hours if I finish some tasks faster than others, they were like “just let me know what that happens, I need to give you more work” lol

I’ll say it as much as I can. Tax business, on profit not individuals on their salary. Salary comes from a business paying you, they have accountants, they can pay taxes.

And when you tax profits, they have the incentive to reinvest in the company, either by hiring more people, or building things, or spending money on research. Instead of giving record profits to shareholders.

Of course you can have small businesses below certain employee numbers exempt or something like that to help new businesses.

This of course means you can’t hand out “government help” by just taking less taxes from people already making money, and have to install give real help to people in need irrespective of their salary.

And of course there might be some details that should be added to make it good.

This. After leaving Reddit I feel like I lost a place I could post about my little foss app and get people to try it. Specially in the niche topics.

I am trying my best to get people I know try but they don’t understand the domain, and I don’t have a reach to people that will understand

Where are my people? And how do I find them? I feel like finding just one like me to spend live with took all the luck I had. Now we’re just weird with no other friends like us

Again, thinking someone/something needs to be super intelligent to take power is not good. They get power because stupid people thinking they’re intelligent will put them in power

This is what I really want

I recently read it in a book. It was used for an evolved human form. That was my first time seeing it other than programming too

Yeah, I really like it. But I also started with it because my university at that time only taught open source apps, and later on other universities did Arc but I just did the same thing in QGIS. But when you’re starting it might be a little of an adjustment.

They also just released v4.0 with full migration to qt6, I haven’t tested it out that well yet.

Btw I am currently working on a programming language that uses custom syntax to do fun analysis related to networks (directed graphs). And I have a GIS support for reading/writing network and attributes. I made it for rivers first, but I’m expanding to all directed graph. I’ve a mix of Computer and Geosciences background so I had fun doing something in the middle that most people don’t.

Edit: I am looking for people to try it out, but I have problem finding people that want to code in a new language, and for network related tasks.

ArcGIS is the proprietary industry standard, but QGIS is catching up. I personally don’t like Arc and have only used it when I was in industry. Even in academia colleges pay for ArcGIS but I just use QGIS.

You can also customize QGIS easily and there’re a lot of community plugins. And works well with other open source tools or CLI tools.

Main thing that makes Arc popular in industry is the liability. They can claim they used the best available industry standard software, so the errors are not their fault, and deflect it to the software company. While with open-source alternatives they might be held liable. It’s not a problem if the open source is the standard. But that only happens when they were there first, hard to do it otherwise.

I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions. linux users come from various backgrounds, if someone told me they use Linux I don’t assume they’re from CS. I’m not either. But given they’re not from CS, the chances they’ve even heard of it is very low.

It’s just a sad but real fact that when you go out into the real world outside of your online communities with similar interests, people don’t know Linux or open source.

I used to think everyone at least knew VLC media player or Firefox, but nope.

Now I first ask which field, if they’re CS they know linux, if art, they know blender, if geosciences they know QGIS, anything else is hard

I mean, the next thing I’d like is to not penalize for having kids as a society so much that you need tax breaks. It should not be this expensive to have kids. Kids eat what you eat, and play with other kids in the community. And any assistance for kids from government should be given to all the kids, not just people with jobs. Current system of deductions for kids is government just taking less from people who already have money.

As for spouses, similar concept, but it’s a bit complicated. I’d like one parent income to be enough to have a family, because we need children to grow with parents. Currently both parents have to work and pay for daycare. The time spent with their own children is very limited. Of course people without kids will be in advantage if they have double income, but that’s bound to happen. And if having kids wasn’t this troublesome and expensive, maybe more people would do it.

I know right. It’s so weird here. People should just negotiate after tax salary and calculate everything after tax. But I guess everyone likes saying big numbers and then get angry government is taking a portion.

Honestly you should just have business pay tax like: x% for profits + y% (less than x) for employees’ salaries. That way they’ve incentives to pay salary over keeping profits (growing company is better long term). And employees don’t have to pay any tax themselves. And they negotiate amd work for after tax salary, no need to feel like gov is taking their money.

I think it depends on the type of blue color job and company as well. Some of them, you’re basically breaking your body to get some money and it could really hurt you in future.

I think having your own, or working for a small local business is great. Specially if you have a paid off house and aren’t struggling otherwise.

He’s at least running, actual analogy would be people laying on their back sipping whatever they drink and say “it’s not bad, it hasn’t hit me at all”