They’re not allowed to be collaborating with people who work for certain Russian companies. It’s not a question of security, it’s a question of US law requiring US entities to punish through non-cooperation certain companies that are assisting in the war effort or whatever.
It might or might not be fair, but it isn’t up to the kernel developers, it’s a legal requirement for them.
Hey guys we’re going to blow up the maternity hospital and shell the nuclear plant: I sleep
You can’t work on your software project anymore: REAL SHIT
Go on ebay and look for refurbished PCs, it’ll probably be cheaper than buying a wireless router. It’ll take some setup but you will get the configurability you need, in spades.
1 I have never seen. The backend was incredibly buggy in 0.18 and early 0.19 versions. Maybe the frontend was too? I’ve only been running it for a short time but I’ve never seen it crash yet.
2/3/4 I count as polish things. Yes, they’re not ideal. How is a rewrite into a new core supposed to make that better, as opposed to throwing the maturity level back to square 1 and introducing a whole plethora of new little polish things to worry about in addition to those?
I’m not saying you’re wrong. Maybe about 1 in the present-day codebase. I definitely see things that could be improved and this is a good list of items, but what I’m asking about was the decision to abandon the codebase and start fresh specifically.
There is also !communities@ponder.cat for yet another source for new communities you might not be familiar with.
I think that over the next few years Sam Altman is going to learn the same lessons that events have been trying to teach Elon Musk since circa 2021.
Even if you know it was very bad, you don’t really know how bad it was.
Borg borg borg
You can combine it with a FUSE mount of the Google Drive, I’m not sure if that works but I don’t see why it wouldn’t.