Okay I’m seeing further chicanery. Their GitHub repo gives the license as MIT but many of the components are not Omarchy originals but derivatives of other products under different licences. Quickshell is LGPL 3, for example, and of course the Linux kernel is GPL 2.

But then there’s a guy working on the “Omarchy Kernel”, which I guess is a derivative like Ubuntu does…

Personalities aside this is still weird, and I wish people would focus on that.

I like the positivity!

Not that I can tell.

I am not an Omarchy or DHH hater but…why? It’s Arch with Hyperland, why are people fawning over it? Is it just because he keeps saying “agentic”?

I’m agentic too, how about throwing me a million bucks?

Yeah, I’ve worked places where I could tell exactly how many more man hours we were short, and I knew the managers were doing it deliberately for a bonus. It’s not for the workers, it’s not for the customers, it’s for shareholders.

Funny how every major innovation that’s sweeping the world and gonna make all the money ever still needs public subsidies.

Deflation of a currency discourages people from spending it, because you can make more money by just holding on to it. It makes loans more expensive to provide because someone can borrow money and it will increase in value without them doing anything, so you have to have higher interest rates to counterbalance this. This harms economies. What you want is stable prices, erring on the side of inflation if you must.

I suppose for a single person deflation doesn’t feel like much, but money is collective so the party doesn’t last.

Oh are they finally finding a wage approach profitability? I got to say, literally just scamming shoppers was…not at the bottom of my list.

Exactly. If I give you sufficient notice, 2 weeks is probably a good minimum, and no one else is taking off at that time, that’s a you problem if you can’t cover it. If your team is not structured such that you can honor PTO with sufficient notice, you are not offering PTO. You are lying about benefits.

I was hating on him when he was just a monopolist.

Call center work sucks, but dealing with people who are upset is in the job description.

If the organization is fucking up, of course you should give them grief in whatever manner available to you. Temper your anger at the lowliest of pawns, sure, but not so much that you don’t leave an impression.

“Talk things out?” What, like with a person?

That’s why Americans lean on chargebacks.

In the past it didn’t matter, because you had the whole file structure for the application when you purchased it. You either downloaded it in whole as an install file or archive, or you had it on the physical media that you purchased it on. Maybe there was a license you had to input or some other rudimentary DRM system, but you had that too. No remote access from the company, no forced additional downloads or internet connectivity, no phone home. So they could say whatever they wanted, but you actually had the product.

Now with media files that only play with proprietary tools that phone home, or applications that phone home, your computers are backdoored. And if you have a system that’s backdoored, it’s not really yours, it’s just something you can access for now. That’s what your Kindle is: a backdoored computer with an e-ink screen and proprietary software that can open proprietary files that other software isn’t supposed to be able to open. Which is why no one should buy one.

What were the 4 horsmen of suppression of online speach? Child Safety, Trrsm, Hate, and Porn? These are the pretexts for everything else. Maybe copyright is supposed to be in there too. Five horsemen then.

Imagine how well digital games would sell if they showed up in your cart like: 1 x Revokable License for God of War $69 See Terms and Conditions* [Confirm Payment]

• Terms: we will do whatever the fuck we want. Conditions: whenever we want.

There’s a reason they say “Buy” instead of “Pay”.

It’s been going on for generations, but it’s no less dishonest for all that. Software sellers write complex EULAs for which the only valid answer is “Agree” because the store won’t take an open box back and the software won’t install unless we pretend to agree, so even us legitimate software enjoyers are pirates in our hearts. Meanwhile normies don’t even think about it that much. Fuck this whole system, but double fuck an online service that says “purchase” but will steal it back later. Fuck that.

Lots of information about people is online.

…Does he have something to hide?