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@gigachad@piefed.social has the best serious response, that being said...
Finally, what we've all been waiting for: a fork that liberates us from the tyranny of
git checkoutand editing a text file.Is there a Patreon or 501(c)(3) organization that we can donate to in order to support the continued work non-programmers who use social media announce protest forks of major projects without any ability or intent to continue the project?
We in the Linux community have too much free time and appreciate things like this consuming our surplus attention which would otherwise be wasted making memes about Windows, berating people for not reading the fantastic manual and tweaking our fastfetch layouts.
As a thanks to you, and all other performative fork developers, I've developed a simple bash script for your root user that will help you create forks in a more efficient manner:
Jesus... Whole thing is utterly ridiculous. It is all just AI hate mob circle jerking round'n'round
For my sanity I just picture a majority of these people as impressionable children who are just sharing the latest popular meme in order to cosplay as political activists.
On the one hand, I see your point (whether or not I agree with it).
On the other, you wasted way more of your surplus attention on writing a snarky comment and being a dick than you would have by just down voting and moving on.
I'm keeping to local cultural traditions
You wouldn't happen to have a spare room available for rent, would ya?
Yes, but be warned, I have stairs in my house.
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