When you are hungry and have had to resort to a less desirable food source, the time for research and development becomes available.

Every banana in existence is in this picture.

Anyone contributing to open source either does it:

• on their companies dime, which means they work for a rare company building open source solutions
• at the end of their day, on their weekend, or during their vacation

Most FOSS devs are in position two. By a large margin. They could be relaxing, or earning more money doing freelancing to make ends meet, but instead they are trying to build something they want to see happen. That requires focusing on the important tasks and that often means not having time to spend on poorly reported bugs that are actually users just not RTFM and opening issues. It wastes the devs time, and projects with too much of this have development stagnate and are frequently shuttered.

And devs that just do this to get a better job stop contributions once their new job takes over their life, and then the project suffers.

Users need to appreciate FOSS devs more because some of the most important projects we need in 2025 are developed only because they want to see them happen.

But what style is a Ball Jar?

If Ball makes a Mason jar, its still a Mason jar, so are all other jars made by Ball just ambiguously “Ball” jars? Or is there a specific design that is referred to as a Ball jar?

The style is called a Mason jar because John Mason came up with it and made it popular. This is called a Mason jar for this reason.

John Mason was from New Jersey. What does Muncie IL have to do with the Mason jar style?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_jar

https://youtu.be/uhzy7JaU2Zc

https://youtu.be/U9t-slLl30E

There’s weird things though because they intentionally strip the Canadian language and region options out of AOSP and that causes some odd behaviour. Whenever I switch from my home towers to the ones around Nanaimo I get this odd message saying “Region changed to US, rebooting.” And then the phone reboots.

A couple of times its gone into a complete bootloop and required reflashing because of this.

Also you have to use Australian English as the closest Canadian English.

At least, that’s the e/OS experience on Fairphone 6. Still waiting for a release for postmarket

And then you added 1, right?

…right?

Luanti (Minetest) folks.

The modding momentum is picking up quite a bit and as a game engine its far better than Minecraft.

AI is opening so many security HOLES. Its not solving shit. AI browsers and MCP connectors are wild west security nightmares. And that’s before you even trust any code these things write.

I don’t know a single conservative that likes Trek.

The bees that live there:

I love my field, I hate the majority of jobs in my field because while tech can do many cool and wonderful things and could be solving many more issue, most companies are busy doing what one percenters want and pushing for the least effort solutions and everything is always a cram. No breathing space, no time to enjoy the product and reflect on what to do next. Just cram, enshittify, add tracking, automate away your peers, do more with less people so we can fire more people.

I’m so sick of the efficiency rat race that capitalist investors demand.

Oh right, good catch. That’s me shell scripting while in a meeting. 🫠

'I don\'t know what you mean, I\‘ve never encountered any annoyances.’

I can… But too much panning. Still hard on my eyes due to the proximity. My eyes are only bad up to about 3 feet from my face, and then they get better that most.

I hate consuming anything on a phone, prefer a monitor I can sit back from, or a TV.

I got to Waldo and said “not with these eyes on a phone.”

So mental warfare in this thing too. It required me to deselect tomatoes.

US and … maybe Israel? Those are the two countries that use the US “Simple English” while the rest of us know what a U is for and how to say Z… so if they also both used F that would track.