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when stacking firewood, always put the pieces with the bark facing up. that way, rain can't get the wood wet, and the logs dry quicker.

I read this as being another feature of half life. I was very impressed by the level of detail the devs put into such an early game. Although slightly confused why log stacking would be part of a game

Give AirVPN a chance. The website looks terrible but it's a great service and port forwarding is far simpler than Proton's weird solution

It was far more then one complement. After the drama stirred the CEO started posting a bunch of official statements justifying his words in the reddit thread. Then kept editing and rewording them in response to the negative feedback. It was entirely unnecessary

Somebody had posted the link elsewhere in this thread. I'd been mistakenly searching u/ProtonSupportTeam for the offending comments rather than u/ProtonTeam

https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/comment/m7ahrlm

Here's the r/privacy thread which summarised all the drama, including pointing out all the comments Proton mods were deleting and censoring in their own sub. Then true to form the r/privacy mods deleted the thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/

Does anyone have links to the dumpster fire of a reddit thread in one or the Proton subs? There was also one of r/privacy but I can't find either so suspect they've been deleted to try to quell the flames.

It was very entertaining drama

I do agree that per dev is such a weird way to do licensing. I have no idea how you would possibly police it. But I guess per dev is the simplest mechanism to ensure large corporations pay more than one man bands.

Even just $0.20/dev would probably yield a decent income.

My understanding has always been that just getting a billing department to pay a bill is the main barrier so whether it's 20 cents or 120 dollars they'll be just as resistant. Therefore you may as well charge them the latter.

I assume a company with a 100 strong dev team would simply negotiate a more reasonable fee so there's no harm in asking $13k on the off chance a corporation is so flush they just pay it.

It's not a rug pull. All previous versions are still available for people to use free of charge under the previous license.

Companies using the library have a choice:

• Continue using the previous versions under the existing license
• Have their developers remove the library from all their projects (which will cost them far more than $130)
• Just accept that things cost money and pay $130 per year per developer and forget about it.

I kind of disagree that $130 is a lot of money.

As developers we should value our time and I don't think it's unreasonable to charge $130 for an hour of a .NET developers time, therefore I personally don't have an issue with paying $130 per year for a tool that has proven itself useful.

While I've never used it myself I am aware of it and looking at if this stat (https://github.com/fluentassertions/fluentassertions/network/dependents) is to believed then there are well over 100,000 projects on GitHub alone all of whom have benefit from the author's free labour.

I really think we need to see a revolution in how open source projects are funded. Personally, I'd love to transition to a career developing open source tools but I can't justify it because whether you charge $1 or $130 people will always complain.

That’s IDE licence territory.

I know what you mean but I also think we're very fortunate for the value for money we get from IDEs.

Every discussion I've seen about this so far has been so negative.

I hope Lemmy with its very left wing audience might have a more compassionate approach around the desire for open source developers to be compensated for their work.

Or at the very least that companies profiting from open source work start to pay back to those contributors

Tbh it was probably a criticism of capitalism more than the public or private sectors. Why consider the long term when you could just cut costs to inflate short term profitability.

I dunno. The proactive approach you're describing doesn't sound very public sector. Why invest money in something when you could just ignore the issue, cross your fingers and hope it happens to someone else, not you.

Adding a couple of things:

• Smarty is worth considering as a mobile network. It's very similar to giffgaff - there's no contract so you won't be locked in, pricing is cheap and data allowances flexible.

• For ISPs just look on comparison websites. They usually list a star rating for customer service. Favour 12 month contracts over 24 because they now all seem to randomly increase your bill by RPI + 3% half way through which is tedious as hell.

• Asda is the only cheap supermarket the other poster missed. It's the UK's wallmart. Cheap but best avoided.

• 999 is the emergency number for fire, police, ambulance (and possibly life boats / mountain rescue). 111 is a non emergency number for NHS health. 101 is the police non emergency number.

• M&S is also worth checking out for reliable clothing.

• There are burrito places in every city which may satisfy the desire for American style Mexican.

• a neurodivergent LGBTQ teen interested in anime and Japanese culture would almost certainly find themselves at home in any board gaming cafe or group. Most cities have one nowadays, you'll be able to find them on the MeetUp website, or search Facebook. Or contact an independent geeky store and the staff will be able to direct you.

• For a British culture TV shows I'd recommend Skins for your teen. It was super popular amongst millennials as teenagers. I'm sure it's now very dated and it's definitely an absurd, unrealistic view but it's very British and had a lot of appeal to teens. Don't watch it with your youngster there will definitely be awkward moments...