@icedquinn@nyoom@paula@allison@mischievoustomato i dont get how chatgpt actually helps people do shit like that like i pay for it i use it but it's never really helped me... a lot of the stuff is pretty incorrect too... i honestly have only been able to use it for templating i dont get what the big deal is it kinda sucks
@allison@nyoom@icedquinn@mischievoustomato Pop!_OS is fascinating because they took ubuntu, which is such a buggy often breaking piece of shit nowadays, and somehow made it even worse and more prone to issues
@mischievoustomato@nyoom@allison > A number of people support themselves just by being Apple app devs, even outside the App Store I've heard. Imagine if that culture came to the FOSS world. the elementary os appstore was really successful and cool in that regard, but sadly limited to elementary os
@mischievoustomato@nyoom@allison well it has its own pretty unique shit at the very least software doesn't fit outside it much. but yes it did have some success even early on, i think i recall an interview on the lunduke show a few months after they launched their pay what you want model and somebody was already makign a living income off of it
@mischievoustomato@allison@nyoom pretty similar to macos too in that atleast last i used it it was mostly like small but well down applications with the more popularity when they fit the ux
@nyoom@icedquinn@allison@mischievoustomato small os, a shell and a light graphical interface. not much, vga and ps/2 etc, but hey it's osdev. i've also played around with the kernel and other hobbyist operating systems. for chrome and firefox it's mostly been warez shit lol, getting video blobs to dump themselves or automating pulling hls steams etc. although for firefox i had this era where i was doing custom patches for a lot of software on my gentoo install and i'd ran firefox and palemoon at the time, so like i'd do some unstable build flags and sometimes have to fix shit to use them, or i would grab old patches for shit or stuff thatd been removed and update them and add back
@allison they're labelled -bin and it's very few large programs that have them that or you can use a binpkg server since forever but like, they're all kinda out of date and theres no good ones online, you're supposed to use it when you have another machine compile your shit for you that you can add
@nyoom@allison i could use the newer shit that has no benefits for me except breaks a ton of shit and complicates things, or i could just use xorg where everything just works hmmmmm tough choice
@nyoom@Arcana@7666@disarray@allison yeah i being sarcastic i am a compulsive liar and fairly manipulative, though i try not to be with important things