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Not if they keep taking it away from you.
Then you are left with 0 vehicles while they fix it

No you aren't.
The title is demeaning.
"don't want to throw shade" as if we all know what's going on except the people involved in the link.
"Clearly the maintainer hasn't heard of a certain..." Haha, we are in the same group, right? We know what's up, guys... Right? Haha, look at these losers.

Never mind that you are applying a time pressure on open source maintainers to try and merge a change they don't understand. Not very respectful. And quite frankly, in extremely bad taste considering the recently revealed xz social engineering.

Where is the question?
There isn't a single question mark in your post. You frame it as if their problem and they don't understand.
Even here, where you are so close to asking, you make it sound like you are checking that everyone here understands.

I always thought Facebook was useful to me. Until one day I decided to stop. A week later I deleted my account.
Turns out Facebook wasn't useful to me.
And I can't see a future where it will be.

WhatsApp is currently useful to me.
And considering EUs current ruling, I imagine there will be WhatsApp compatible apps soon. Besides, if meta leaves the EU, everyone will move to telegram or signal or whatever.

So no, I don't think it will be useful to me one day. And I'd be quite happy to see it go

The low ram and storage are to drive you up 2 tiers.
By the time you go "256gb isn't enough storage, so I'll pay 10% more for something useable", you are pretty much at the stage of "if I'm spending this much, I might as well get the ram upgrade as well". And suddenly you are paying $500 more.

It makes the most sense for a company to spread their risk amongst as many suppliers as possible if their entire business relies on the performance of those suppliers.

Thinking about it, IT hardware and networking doesn't ever seem to do this. Maybe that's because it's lots of items working together to create a system instead of multiple discrete systems.

Releasing a standalone server, the server source code, or spec for how the server runs sonit can be reverse engineered.
There is no financial incentive to do this, there is reputation incentive to do it. But I think it needs government regulation to make it actually happen.
A final patch removing any online requirements (accounts, DRM etc), a standalone server and the source for it would all be amazing!

"Free at the point of service".
"Inclusive as a part of citizenship".

Of course it costs money, of course everyone pays for it. That's what taxes are

Why 'making "pretend people" with artificial intelligence' is a waste of energy

Its was also told - on multiple occasions - not to repeat its instructions

I use jerboa and it is working (I used the toolbar to generate it, but had to fix it because my mobile keyboard is a massive PITA for any corrections and I haven't had time to find something new).
Anyway, looks like sync and boost are not lemmy-markdown-compatible

I cannot imagine going into a stream of someone playing a game you have poured your heart and soul into for years, and hear you own voice reading stuff like that

Edit: fixing spoiler tag.

That is fantastic