A video that features a static Valentine's day themed template with some text, along with a heart-shaped cut-out featuring a video of me (bearded white man with glasses wearing a blue shirt and looking directly into the webcam) talking about why I love Free Software. The text reads: "I [heart] Free Software because it helps me still make my deliveries when the official #DoorDash app barfs due to a nationwide #TMobile outage. Thanks, #OsmAnd! Your offline maps and navigation saved the day! #ILoveFS --Preston Maness, DoorDasher" The video reads: "I love Free Software because it gets the job done when proprietary software fails. I was DoorDashing tonight, and T-Mobile had a nationwide outage. The DoorDash app barfed because it was not designed for offline use. But I was able to use OsmAnd, an offline maps and navigation tool that is Free Software, to complete the deliveries anyway! [thumbs up to the camera]"

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   Preston Maness ☭ (aspensmonster@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 22:58:42 JST Preston Maness ☭

   Got an email from Devin Ulibarri of the #FSF (@fsf) asking us Free Software fans to describe why we love Free Software. The email even shared a detailed recipe for how to make your own "I Love Free Software" #ILoveFS video just like this one, entirely with -- you guessed it -- Free Software :P I used the #GNOME Cheese webcam tool to record the video from my webcam, the #kdenlive video editing suite to stitch the template and video together and render it to the free and open #webm #OggVorbis format, and shared the finished product on #mastodon, a social network built on Free Software.

   I was working #DoorDash tonight, and #TMobile had a nationwide outage that left me without signal. DoorDash's proprietary app totally barfed and clearly wasn't built with the "what do we do when loss-of-signal happens" edge case in mind, but since I had the addresses locally on my device already, I was able to load #OsmAnd, an offline maps and navigation suite that is Free Software, to complete the deliveries anyway! Happy customers, happy me.

   I eventually made it back home, where I had internet, and tried to officially mark the deliveries as complete. At that point, DoorDash's app was still giving me trouble, saying I wasn't close enough to mark the deliveries as complete (duh) but also timing out when trying to get on the horn with support to explain the situation.

   I'm sure their API endpoints and customer service lines are getting swamped due to this outage. Hopefully I don't get any automatic "contract violations" as a result of this. Nevertheless, I *did* take screenshots of my geo location in #OsmAnd as well as pictures of the delivery locations, so I've got receipts :)