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My sample size is small but nearly everyone I talked to uses basically zero of the tailscale advanced features. The VPN, the tunneling, and the internal IP/DNS - nothing else. And the same is true for headscale and netbird.

I don't want to absolve Kohl here but personally this sounds like it at most had paved the way. I only started university in 2003, without any fees, and then they were introduced (so 4-5 years after the Kohl era), and then scrapped again as well.

So what you're saying that it's only the 90% of lines of code that have been touched in the last 18 years. Yeah.

You would probably never see anyone in a (community) leadership role say "we're worse than our reputation", the most humble you'd get is "we match our reputation" (if it's good, not bad) but "we're better than everyone says" just feels wrong to me.

I don't have a strong opinion on Drupal (last used it 15? years ago, it was fine) but the people who make don't get to say "Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation.". That's what everyone says of their own stuff, just no.

I'm not sure if this is different depending on where you come from and where you emigrated to, but as a EU citizen this just doesn't click with me, at all.

We can freely move, work, marry, create companies, and everything else here already, I don't even think I'd think about it very often if I had a different passport (and it's not a thing I've only thought about for the last five minutes). (Of course this isn't true for all of them, but some of the neigboring countries).

The amount of people in my life who use Meta for the company and not still Facebook is probably exactly zero. I'm not talking about articles or meta-(haha) discussion about Meta or HN, though.

You ask that like it's not the absolute norm :P

The thing the people are also sometimes missing is that I leave my YubiKey at home... especially in those situatiosn where I am prone to lose it.

Going to a concert - I'll take my phone but not my YubiKey, etc.pp

And if I enroll 2 YubiKeys, I can deposit one safely at home. I want my phone to be less important, not more important.

I just don't understand it.

How am I merging the inboxes again? Maybe 20 years of using an elaborate system of folders and inbox rules has warped my mind, but I don't want to have 20 inboxes if I get regular mail from 20 companies.

Or does it all forward it to Gmail (which I don't use) after it's "ok"?

On a large scale this sounds like a nightmare.

Upstreaming fixes has always been awesome so you don't need to care for your special snowflake fork, and it just took time, and effort, and so on.

Sure, people who are all in on AI will say "no worries, we will just somehow get all the security fixes from upstream by letting the agent cherry-pick stuff" and I'll just wish them good luck.

Me? Every time I can sunset a personal project of mine and replace it with a tool with a (even tiny) community and trying to improve that over doing everything from scratch, I'm very happy. (The opposite has happened as well, of course, but rarer). Maybe this is different for people who like to create new stuff, build communities, amass fame. I'm the rando who just shows up and collaborates with you for a few days/weeks/years and vanishes again.

Interesting. I've only been a (work) mac user for 2 years now and I don't really have anything against it, as long as I can move it to the side (looking at you, Windows 11) - I am not even hiding it.

I mean, sure, it's not i3 and I can't fully work without using a mouse, but alt-tab, and cmd-space and the occasional click work for me. Work as in: as a user with opinions on most software I am just now actively wondering why I never had problem with it :P

If you had asked me 10 or 15 years ago, yes. At some point I decided I am happy enough with a FritzBox (maybe also because of the included modem, so less devices) for home use - and then added 2 of the cheaper mikrotik devices.

I think there is a market, but it's small. I would absolutely not replace my setup now after spending some money just this year. Had this offer existed last year, maybe (but I have also thought about a Turris Omnia in the past...)

Disclaimer: I have used DD-WRT, OpenWRT, Tomato and for the sake of this argument, they're interchangeable to me. Something FLOSS that I can configure, but I've not even checked what the market provides for many years.

I've heard just as many horror stories for the Apple app store. I don't think there is real improvement or downfall for either. You are lucky, or you are unlucky, and the two app stores trade places for your own problems every couple of months (or years).