Yes, I agree. The FOSS model doesn't seem to be working even though I believe it can. So I still will try to rally people to chip in here and there. I think many devs are happy to work on their projects even without huge tech salaries and many small contributions can add up. So it is a win for everyone (I think I'm a bit surprised -- not really -- that the EA people don't advocate for more FOSS donating).
But I do think this is in part related to the "staying around" issue. No one wants to do the boring stuff and it's easier to just give people a salary and throw that under their umbrella. Hard to justify this in volunteer work.
I do wish we would have a real conversation about this on HN and we could actually dig deep into it. But I think it is easy to think it is not a problem because things appear to be working smoothly, so cracks are easy to ignore and it is easy to not think about if we could be more efficient. I definitely don't know a solution to the problem but I'm sure given some time there's more than enough smart people around here that understand different aspects of the problem that it could be solved.
That said, I do personally appreciate your project, and have recently gotten into some hardware hacking (need to fix some devices...). And I hope you focus more on the encouragement in the thread over the criticism (even though some is valid, constraints matter).
On a completely different note, is there any plans for a full TUI? Or someone that is doing this?
But I do think this is in part related to the "staying around" issue. No one wants to do the boring stuff and it's easier to just give people a salary and throw that under their umbrella. Hard to justify this in volunteer work.
I do wish we would have a real conversation about this on HN and we could actually dig deep into it. But I think it is easy to think it is not a problem because things appear to be working smoothly, so cracks are easy to ignore and it is easy to not think about if we could be more efficient. I definitely don't know a solution to the problem but I'm sure given some time there's more than enough smart people around here that understand different aspects of the problem that it could be solved.
That said, I do personally appreciate your project, and have recently gotten into some hardware hacking (need to fix some devices...). And I hope you focus more on the encouragement in the thread over the criticism (even though some is valid, constraints matter).
On a completely different note, is there any plans for a full TUI? Or someone that is doing this?