Their point is that the maintainer did not sign a contract that requires them to perform maintainer duties. They can choose to stop doing it at any point. They can choose to axe a feature that you deem essential. They can choose to rewrite the project in COBOL for the fun of it.

You may not like it, but that is how it is.
The only legal document involved is the license and any open-source license I’ve seen so far, has stated that the program is provided as is.

This is the license under which rsync is provided: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html
See sections 15 and 16.

The only way you get to have a say in the matter, is by forking and becoming a maintainer yourself.

Hmm, seems to work like you want for me. Using Plasma 6.6 with the icons-only task manager…

Coming at it from the Rust ecosystem, I’d primarily opt for uploading release binaries somewhere. You don’t particularly need a setup script, since Rust programs are generally self-contained.

Publishing a package in addition to that really isn’t hard, but would be my secondary choice, since users are not likely to have cargo on their system.
Well, and cargo compiles on the target machine, which is great for supporting unusual architectures, but you may have C libraries included where it’s just a gamble whether you can compile them on a given target system.

Should perhaps add that you can generally run Linux distributions off of a USB stick for that first impression.

Just follow a tutorial for how to install Linux and when you see the actual installer on screen, you can just close the installer without installing and then click around in the UI.

It will be slow, because it’s running off that slow USB connection, but otherwise this is pretty much the operating system as it is when fully installed.

Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.

Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.

Sharknado

I heard “dick jousting” before…

To stave off bigots.

Strictly necessary for SuperTuxKart.

…Of course, mascots are not *needed*. But there’s no cost associated with them. And folks in the community enjoy them. It would be irrational to not have mascots.

I hear they have a surplus in the Mojave desert…

I always recommend Oh My Git.

Had to think what this would be mathematically, and I guess, it’s a factorization then.

Not sure, I’ve heard of it before myself, but if this is the webpage, then some dev log was posted 18 days ago, so I imagine, there’s also still players. 🙃

Ah yeah, that’s tricky. I’m not actually deep into it myself. Maybe you can find a group to play with, like friends, colleagues etc.?

Not quite a direct answer, but I feel like this world view is linked to seeing art primarily as a commodity rather than a way to express emotions.

With expressive art, it doesn’t particularly matter whether you write the millionth poem in a standard rhyme scheme and meter, so long as what you express comes across.
But commodity art is explicitly ‘clean’, it does not carry a message or at least not a particularly complex/interesting message.

And then, yeah, suddenly you ask yourself why would someone look at this particular drawing of a dragon, when there’s been a million drawings of dragons before.

Wikipedia calls it a “spiritual successor” to Tremulous. 😅

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unvanquished_(video_game)

There’s quite a few old-school shooters that are open-source, for example:

• https://xonotic.org/ is a Quake-like arena shooter.

• https://unvanquished.net/ is an asymmetric arena shooter (humans vs. aliens) with RTS elements.

Those are actually two different etymologies/meanings. Amazingly, the word “impregnable” itself has two meanings, which are kind of the opposite of each other.

See etymology 1 and 2 here: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnable

For “impregnate”, it lists the meaning “to fill pores or spaces with a substance” under the same etymology as knocking someone up (which is etymology 2 above): https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/impregnate

Glad that assert_matches!() is finally stable. Pulling in a dependency for that functionality never felt good, nor having to provide an elaborate format-string every time, just to get more information than “should’ve been true, but was false”…

Alt+F3 can also work (possibly in addition to Alt+Space)…