I don’t understand your position here. If we went back to a more reasonable 7 or 14 year copyright term, how would that obviate the need for a license like the GPL, which permits instant use of code provided you share-alike? Those shorter copyright lengths would be pretty reasonable for books or movies, but would still suck for tech.

Copyright is what makes the GPL license enforceable.

I threw it on the ceiling

Ooh

Nothing much, what’s going on with Jim Carrey with you?

And what’s with all the upvotes?

I’ll bet his ego’s loving it.

It can take forever, depending how many packages have changed since release, and mirror speed. Also pretty sure there’s no checkbox, though that could have changed at some point.

(Fwiw, I’m not here to say “Windows good” or anything.)

Debian and Ubuntu installers do the same thing, and have for quite some time. You can cancel when you see it start grabbing apt sources, or just be offline.

I’d go a little further and say it’s proper funny now.

No true nerdsman intensifies

Thanks for explaining the joke.

R.I.P. Drew The Peacock.

Colloidal cousin.

I miss those “pebble” watches.

Great news for ya.

Keep in mind that they can be pressured by others into doing something they don’t necessarily “want” to do. Making your intentions clear can be useful.

Wow, impressive! Can you walk us through your thought process?

egpu.io is a great resource.

A central principal of the fediverse is decentralization, and to that end, it’s healthier to spread the users across many instances than to have folks concentrated too heavily on any one.

It’s certainly healthier for the whole to have users spread across instances, but that’s a matter of emergence. What’s your pitch to convince an individual to choose a smaller instance, when it’s far more likely that their instance will cease to exist, taking their identity, history and hosted communities with it?

You’re only missing content if your instance defederates from another and vice versa or if you block instances yourself.

You’re missing content from communities that no one on your instance follows yet.