The goal for OSS projects is always different. Many projects solve a problem for the developer(s) and them alone. They don’t care about it ‘thriving’ or adding features that don’t align with that problem.

I find it confusing when people complain that other people won’t spend time implementing things that they want. If you want feature A, fork the project and add it. I appreciate that’s easier said than done, but if you can’t or won’t do that, stop complaining about what other people do with their time.

Not all software is the same. Get used to them being different.

it hasn’t been able to capitalize on the many waves of exodus and twitter controversies for over two years now

You’re making the assumption that it wants to.

The goals of Mastodon are very different from Twitter.

Unfortunately, as much as I hate to admit it as someone who has left Chromium behind personally, Chromium is kind of the only choice.

With Mozilla’s rudderless stewardship of Firefox, I reluctantly agree with this. Firefox, and Mozilla, used to stand for something more than just a browser, but that is sadly vanishing now. Chrome is really the future and while I’m clinging on to Firefox, I will succumb in the end.

It’s very sad. I’ve been a Firefox user for so long I’ve lost count. But Mozilla has lost it’s way and I don’t see it making any noise about getting back on course.

I think having one browser engine is a very bad idea. But here we are.

I use pfSense and tried to migrate away in the past. The changes I would have had to make to setup opnsense were so significant that I gave up for to lack of time. I don’t have time luxury of downtime so I need to migrate quickly.

But if I were starting again I’d absolutely avoid the pfSense project and their childish shitty behaviour.

I do plan to buy more hardware to replace my current pfSense box and take my time to implement opnsense gradually.

I’m not sure what the difference between this and autorandr are?

There are quite a few mind map plugins for Obsidian.

I settled on Raindrop.io which is free but I paid to support it ($30 a year I think). I had to change my workflow slightly and the Obsidian integration is not as great as Omnivore’s, but it wasn’t a pain. The browser integration is really good and I prefer it to Omnivore’s.

Overall I think it’s a decent replacement and I’m happy.

I tried Wallabag but the Obsidian integration was poor and Wallabag felt unloved recycle by extension made me question it’s future (which is unfair given my limited time with it). There was a trial which was not enough time for me to evaluate it comfortably.

Most EU countries have been demilitarizing for 30 years more and more, with the strategy being "it’s a new world without wars, and also big daddy USA will protect us,l

That’s not the Europe I see now and sounds like a US President trope. I would agree that post-Cold War that was the case, but I’d say in the last decade at least, it’s not.

But, genuine question as I’m open to being wrong, saved this is an area that interests me, do you have sources for this?

What are people’s go to eBook buying stores? Preferably DRM free.

I try to not buy Kindle books but I usually end up back there as it’s either much cheaper (not just slightly) or can only be found there.

no one gives a shit what kids are doing on their devices

Except Joe. And people like Joe. Whose surveillance of kids is now not only easier, but sanctioned.