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I like that calligraphy example, I am afraid that's how a field would stagnate: the tools become advanced, but now with less and less people wanting to approach and struggle with learning the field, the human intuition, the community effort, and the mastery to push past the bleeding edge withers.

(Unless if AGI could do something like that.)

This cliche keeps getting repeated, but it offers no actual insight and ignores all nuances.

because now they don't need to respect the LICENSE...

Perhaps we should start treating them as criminals instead of assuming that they are idiots.

You can deliberately put comments and descriptions using those language.

Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how is simply zipping the original file would "defrag" the file?

Shouldn't the file be moved into different disk fragment first, for that to happen?

And with all kinds of telemetry they collected, they managed to create the pinnacle of UI/UX redesign, as shown in the Settings Panels in Windows 11, right?

So you propose we roll the dice and hope for more accidents to happen?

> Funding for this project is crowdsourced using GitHub Sponsors and Patreon.

Based on the project github page, it seems that this is their version of weird/fun stuff, that is not done as a part of their job.

And the file served is of pdf file. The font used is Titillium Web. The color of my bike shed is that of brown wood color.

Did I also contribute to the discussion of the tool?

Yes, of course there are people who really want to do those. But op was presenting their main point of view related to "the slow evaporation" part.

Like op, more and more people can't get past the idea of starting or contributing to FOSS is no longer worth their time, due to various reasons, such as: their free labor of love was turned into another corporate money making tool.

I wonder how much % of windows are Surface tablets, that they think going with this decision is wise.

Having employees unionize is also at odds with the interests of the business.

Surely the C-suites of the company will employ whatever brilliant ideas that we talk over the water cooler. The water cooler is the fountain of innovation after all.

Perhaps they should put all the water coolers in the executives' offices, so they can listen to all the brilliant conversations that take place at the water cooler.