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I've been transitioning to Linux recently and have been forced to use github a lot when I hadn't much before. Here is my assessment.

Every github project is named something like dbutils, Jason's cool photo picker, or jibbly, and was forked from an abandoned project called EHT-sh (acronym meaning unknown) originally made by frederick lumberg, forked and owned by boops_snoops and actively maintained by Xxweeb-lord69xX.

There are either 3 lines of documentation and no releases page, or a 15 page long readme with weekly releases for the last 15 years and nothing in between. It is either for linux, windows, or both. If it's for windows, they will not specify what platforms it runs on. If it's for Linux, there's a 50% chance there are no releases and 2 lines of commands showing how to build it (which doesn't work on your distro), but don't worry because your distro has it prepackaged 1 version out of date and it magically appears on flatpak only after you've installed it by other means. Everything is written in python2. It is illegal to release anything for Mac OS on github.

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

wait, does apple let users access github?

[–] odium@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, why would they block a website?

[–] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Well, they have blocked a mobile phones connection when you held it in your hand sooooo

"You're browsing it wrong"

/s

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Antennagate happened 14 years ago. A lot users are too young to remember that

[–] odium@programming.dev 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have never heard of that before

[–] infeeeee@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Iphone 4 had a shitty antenna design. This was the first iphone with a metal frame around, on the sides of the phone. If you holded it with your left hand you could easily accidentally short the two parts of the antenna, basically cutting all signals.

This was definetily a design fault, there was even class action lawsuit against Apple. When they asked Steve Jobs about this, he replied:

"You are holding it wrong."

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago
[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Home brew is great!