Just refactor SerenityOS, take its DE and make it a Wayland compositor, stop reinventing the wheel. Ladybird realized this, why can't SerenityOS do the same?
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These projects misdirect talented individuals from impactful work.
What's the point, if they ultimately collapse due to the unsustainable nature of solely pleasure-driven endeavors?
This wasted effort is particularly frustrating considering that vital open-source projects, crucial for real-world applications, are struggling to survive due to critical lack of contributors.
It's infuriating to witness this neglect.
People do stuff out of passion, they eschew leisure time, time with family, they trade opportunities to make money to do open source.
But then, they increasingly see their work being used to enable products that increasingly limit your freedom and/or outright spy on you, become paid cloud offering without you seeing a dime for that, are used to train AI with the overt goal of replacing your labor class and depress wages in one of the last professions where there was still a modicum of social mobility.
In light of that, either you stop contributing, or you make sure to contribute to projects that have absolutely no chance of being used commercially against you. Either that, or start paying for my work.
I am not going to spend my time making Nadela, Bezos and Altman even more rich than what they are now. Fuck that shit.