Perfect, perfect analogy. Like, seriously, I’ve hardly ever seen an analogy that works so flawlessly where even the implications just line up perfectly.

I am in awe.

It must really suck to work as a Java developer in Greece.

Gitflow is the usual branching strategy. It’s not dialed up to 11, it only specifies precisely what to merge to where and from where.

The real mavericky thing is when someone uses cherrypicking in combination with squash merges thus breaking branch compatibility.

I have been the git specialist in the last few teams, and thus I’m the one who has to clean that up every time. Not because it’s hard, but because nobody can be bothered to actually learn git.

Edit: The other thing is to use rebases instead of merges. Yes, they make for a much nicer git history, but they also tend to break everything in the process when the rebase is sufficiently large.

And I got a real job that I will be doing for longer than a week, so the the money has to justify me spending my rare free time.

The old “I have this great idea for an app! If you build it for me, you can have 10% of the profits!”.

And then you ask for the idea, and at first they don’t want to give it away with your agreement, and in the end it turns out to be either whatsapp of amazon.

That happens so often with non-corporation FOSS. Some dude makes something cool and shares it for free, and in turn they get a butload of entitled support requests of idiots who think that “customer is king” applies for stuff they didn’t pay for too, and who think that the developer owes them something for using his software.

A similar thing happened with M66B. He got so fed up that he pulled all his apps. Luckily people managed to talk him out of it, but it’s really understandable.

Because he kept getting entitled support requests for badly packaged versions of his project in some linux distros.

The entitlement is strong. But not with the person who creates an open source emulator in their spare time and gives it away for free, but for those who demand free support.

It’s a quite common issue with open source stuff.

• Dude makes a thing.
• Dude thinks maybe others could benefit from it, so he gives it away for free
• Entitled morons think customer is king also applies for stuff they didn’t pay for and demand free support
• Dude gets overwhelmed and frustrated by having to play free customer support hotline for his free product and after a while pulls back
• Entitled morons get up in arms and call dude condescending and worse for not doing free customer support for the free thing, somehow believing that dude owes them something.

No. What I did is say that if someone switches sides we should let them.

It’s not about forgiving here.

The main priority here is to fix the problem, not to assign blame.

If the choice is between stopping the genocide and restoring peace versus hating all the people who ever supported Israel, that choice would be easy for me.

It originally was released in 2019 as the Pro^1 with the then 2yo Snapdragon 835.

The Pro^1 X was supposed to be released in 2019 too, and it would mainly differ in software, but it was delayed and delayed again until 2021. By then Qualcomm stopped manufacturing the now 4yo Snapdragon 835 and so they downgraded to the inferior Snapdragon 662. According to tests at that time, this was a major performance downgrade.

Actually getting them into the hands of buyers then still took ~1.5 years after that, so it really was released in 2023.

All in all, pretty much all reviewers agreed that it was a terrible phone with an ok-but-not-great keyboard bolted on for a very steep price. Can’t find a price right now, but IIRC they sold for ~€800.

Current prices on ebay are totally crazy. North of €1600.

It’s a bit of a dry spell for us keyboard fans.

The formatting most likely didn’t help with people being able to google it, or to remember the name even.

It’s quite old now and has been out of stock for a long time.

They just named it like that so it’s easier to remember where pengins live.

At least since the original penguins had been hunted to extinction.

I might be the only one, but KEYBOARDS!

I even designed my own keyboard attachment to get one back.

Ja, klar. Keine Arbeit, keine Müh, kein Risiko, trotzdem volles Gehalt. Wundert mich nicht, dass man das gut findet.

Wundert mich mehr, dass das die die das zahlen gut finden.

If we completely stop having children right now, worldwide, the population will not meaningfully decrease for the next 50 years.

The major amount of climate damage will be done within the next 20 years.

The only option to use population control to reduce climate damage would be to kill roughly half of the world’s population within the next 2-3 years.

So if that’s your solution, you are either advocating for the greatest genocide the world has ever seen or are argueing in bad faith because you know that your solution is nonsense.

Man könnte die Polizei nutzen um die Bevölkerung zu schützen und echte Probleme zu beheben. Oder man kann sie an die Grenze stellen, wo sie gelangweilt in den Wind stieren.

Ist doch eindeutig was man da macht.

It’s the “I’m scared of brackets” crowd again.

population reduction

Yep, sure, genocide is of a problem the less drastic option.

You are a clown.

Sure. The survival of the species can never be an excuse to reduce personal comfort even a little bit.