As a programmer: compile times
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Gerrymandering doesn't affect presidential elections. Only the lower house of Congress and the state legislative branch.
Sometimes you have to pay for keeping things free, if that makes any sense.
FOSS can't exist in a vacuum. The developers spend a lot of time on things and they need to be paid for their efforts, otherwise we won't get great products like Sync.
If you want things that are well maintained and supported, then there has to be income for those owners to provide those services.
Sync for lemmy is a top tier client. I'm willing to pay to get and support that model. It's not like the 17 dollars a year is a big deal. I spend more than that on a single sushi roll sometimes.
Perhaps with each corner of the X at a 90 degree angle clockwise? You know, to add style points.
Facial recognition does not need to use infrared in any way to work. Source: have trained many models