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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • AGPL works for me. Good to know.

    I just avoid using “source available” and software that has artificially paywalled features, the most common paywalled feature is OIDC because most devs seem to think that it’s a business only feature.

    I pay for Home Assist Cloud, because I want to support them, every feature is available if I wanted to self host it. I freaking love them.

    The only exception being Bitwarden, although they have paywalled features in their selfhosted builds I don’t know of a better-for-me alternative. I could self-host Vaultwarden, but I pay for their subscription just because I want to support them.

    My point is, if it’s justified, I’ll pay. Otherwise, I’ll keep using standalone RSS apps on my devices and just backup my OPML every once in a while.





  • By supporting WebDav your app will instantly gain the possibility to sync with every OS and a gazillion apps. It is not the best protocol, but it’s everywhere and it’s very good when implemented well. For example, CopyParty’s WebDav implementation is blazing fast.

    Afterwards, you could enhance the experience by supporting websockets so that contributors can build clients specific to your project. This will take much more time to reach the user with a usable sync app, but can potentially end up in a superior experience.






  • Steam Machine

    If the Steam Machine really takes off, I see way more people moving to Linux on their main rigs and laptops, and in turn making companies stop ignoring it, if it becomes a massive success I imagine:

    • Mainstream games like FIFA supporting Linux
    • Apps like Affinity Studio being distributed through Steam officially supported via Proton.
    • Epic games will be the last company to keep ignoring Linux.
    • Valve adopting Waydroid for SteamOS (for Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, etc)
    • NVIDIA will redouble their Linux efforts.
    • Greatest than ever VR support in Linux

    Steam Frame

    • Lots of Linux apps will work on Android desktop mode, like LibreOffice, Inkscape, etc.
    • Linux phones will receive a lot more maintainers and funding.

    Steam Deck

    • Android apps on the Deck via Valve’s Waydroid
    • Steam Deck 2 on ARM

    Other

    • New use cases for ARM will motivate RISCV to speed up it’s growth.
    • KDE & Arch will receive more funding from Valve
    • More contributions to the Kernel
    • More Linux developers
    • Increased security for Linux
    • Flathub will grow