I have been looking for a sudoku app which allows me to use different symbols rather than numbers because sometimes the numbers themselves confuse me, so using random symbols helps to keep them arbitrary. After years of waiting I submitted a feature request for Open Sudoku and a couple of weeks later it was implemented. Years of waiting, a few weeks waiting after asking, just amazing. Open Source software is definitely the future, and the communities around Open Source project, while a little variable, are absolutely outstanding.
I will confess that I have obsessively watched merge requests on a daily basis
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rowinxavier@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Open source is the modern marvel that nobody talks about. Like the industrial revolution or the building of the pyramids. I know it’s preaching to the choir on lemmy. Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.
Sometimes I wonder how much the average person can comprehend the scale of what has been accomplished over the past few decades. I’m sure they attribute it to the power of the corporations’ drive for profit. None of that would have happened without the combined effort of people around the world building out one software library or application at a time. There’s a behemoth underneath the shiny corporate tech products that is the real achievement.
Some say, born to late to yadda born to soon to whatever. Guy, we have lived in very interesting times. You just haven’t been looking. We’ve lived through the middle of something incredible. I’m sure Jim Ramses was super annoyed at another brick to haul back in 10000BC so the pharaoh can have his stupid tomb or whatever. He wasn’t thinking, they’re going to be nuts over this stuff in a few millennia.
That being said, I think open source is facing existential trials in the near future.
OwOarchist@pawb.social 28 minutes ago
I’ve seen open source software devs fix niche little bugs I reported within hours of reporting it. Feels good.
Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
I can remember back when that one feature I waited for was a functioning DX11 driver like the box fucking said. Fucking AMD…
artwork@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Some know the OP is into GitLab more than GitHub ^^
heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
At this point I should just set invent.kde.org as my new tab page.
marcos@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Factorio allows you to transfer items between space stations now.
IDK if that’s the kind of thing the post is about, and there has certainly not been 5 years. Also, no time for Yay!, because I’m busy designing some space platform fabric…
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
I want to make my cursor increasingly grow when I wiggle it.
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I assume this is a sarcastic reference to KDE Plasma, but in case you dont know, KDE does that and i love it
Zink@programming.dev 49 minutes ago
Sure, but what if I want my cursor to be vector based and stay sharp as fuck on screen even when it’s huge?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I too want some things to grow when I wiggle them 😏
DeadPixel@lemmy.zip 1 minute ago
Them?
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I just installed Fedora Linux on my old Winblows Surface 3 tablet. It does this, and it’s pretty fun to mess with.
the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I’m still salty about Affinity being bought by Canva and THAT’S the version that has inage trace built-in 😭
jaybone@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
When you have submitted multiple PRs and they get ignored even though you follow their ridiculously complicated CI and testing guidelines, so you just fork the repo and do whatever you want. (And then hope things don’t break a year from now because you aren’t pulling any new features and fixes.)
baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I wish I had the drive to learn to really program instead of just small scripts and BS, but im sure I’d just spend all my time keeping up with the code base and trying to follow guidelines that I’d add nothing to the project.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Then the project gets archived 6 months later and nobody forks it…
victorz@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
What feature are you waiting for? 🙂
heythatsprettygood@feddit.uk 4 hours ago
I’m waiting for Linux 7.4 to drop so I can have non-Steam games working with my Switch 2 Pro Controller out of the box.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I would recommend the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 Wireless. I’m using that as my main, for Rocket League and other games. Works great. Cheaper and better than Xbox controllers, PS controllers, even Nintendo’s ones. I think I paid around $40–50 for it. Much, much better quality than my Xbox Elite Series 2 controller, which was almost $200 and now barely works.
whaleross@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Reminds me of that screenshot where some chronic gooner asked the Cyberpunk devs way before release what kind of sex den simulation would be available.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
‘that niche feature’ being basic security.
PixeIOrange@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeeees luanti now has controller support so i can play with my phone and a clip on controller 😍
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 4 hours ago
The reason why is that AI is helping write code faster now. What are your thoughts on this, OP?
Zombie@feddit.uk 3 hours ago
Reality@feddit.org 3 hours ago
It’s awesome and Lemmy is wrong to hate and denounce the genuinely good outputs of frontier models. There is enough wrong with LLMs and the companies behind them that is fair to criticise. Lemmy puts human made code on a pedestal, but look at the certificate and php stuff this week, all human errors…
BaroqueInMind@piefed.social 2 hours ago
Look, I agree with you. However, most people here don’t, and I’m not sure why.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 4 hours ago
When Krita overhauled the text tool (☆▽☆)
Mongostein@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
Jellyfin letting me set a number of episodes to play before it stops. 👍