lori

Sound is almost always the sticking point for me in Linux installs.

But as I said in another comment, this doesn’t actually matter for the general populace because they don’t install OSes. The only situation where they’d use Linux is if they can buy a Linux PC ready to go, so config issues like this miss the forest for the trees.

The average person doesn’t use network drives or know what they are.

The real problem is if people can’t buy Linux laptops at Best Buy it literally doesn’t matter how usable or not it is because the average person doesn’t install an OS.

I mean realistically speaking a guy like Dale would have been horribly racist in the 90s and 2000s as well. But nobody wants that in a TV show so it made sense to just sidestep that and stick to the “fun” conspiracies. So I don’t see why you’d change that now.

He has gotten at least three grants in the past that I saw on the NLNet website for Pixelfed, but none were listed as active when I looked. However, since you have to complete your project to get paid out I didn’t see a way to know if he actually received any or all of those grants. The current active grant is just for Loops. I believe the old Pixelfed grants also required certain licensing and the project being open source though.

Also, as of this morning, he was posting about how in order to make Loops open source and federated he needs to hit $200k on his Kickstarter. However, he was previously challenging people who were claiming it’s not currently federated or open sourced. So now the story is that it’s not yet and he needs more money to make that happen when previously he was claiming it already was both of those things.

It’s…a mess for sure.

I don’t care how long a season is anymore I just care how complete the idea is. The amount of shows with a satisfying ending is extremely low. And it’s always been low but it’s only getting worse. A ridiculous amount of shows just get tossed in the garbage as they’re trying to develop a cohesive story.

They got some unknown amount of VO recorded for him so I guess they intend to use it. I have to assume that if they weren’t this far along already they would have cancelled it but it sounds like they were pretty deep in already.

Well, it’s kind of up to him. His NLNet grants require it to be open source and dictate what license he uses, but I don’t know the details to know if that just means it has to be open sourced in order to receive the grant (awarded upon completion not ahead of time) or right away.

A few days ago he posted (then I think deleted) this, which among other things makes me extremely inclined to not believe anything he says:

In March 2019 I teased the Pixelfed mobile app. The only problem was, I didn’t know how to write one. So just like the original “federated instagram” post, I faked a commercial to build hype. It was coming along well. Then in mid 2020, I came out and put the app aside. It wasn’t until late 2022 that I found a Pixelfed react native app, and cloned it and tinkered. In 2023 I released the first Pixelfed app, but it was slow. I rewrote it from scratch in May 2024. From faking, to making!