If you haven’t done freelancing before, do acquaint yourself with the laws in you area. You will need to pay for health insurance, income tax, pension, and so on yourself. Budget that into the hourly to be able to give a quote. To earn the equivalent of a salaried worker, I’ve often seen at least double the hourly of a salaried worker requested. This varies from region to region of course.

Very nice.

BTW, we do have our very own YouTube alternative in the fediverse called peertube 😉

I don’t know what kind of a GUI you’re building, but there are simpler options than Tauri out there. Slint comes to mind.

Explanation since I didn’t know what it was.

Welcome 🙂 We hope you continue enjoying it!

Pro: it’s GLOSS - Gratis Libre OSS.

Con: it’s run terribly. The Linux foundation could be doing a much better job. 1-2% of its funding go into the linux kernel.

It is primarily sponsored by the government of Switzerland 🇨🇭 where it is currently deployed for citizens.

Now this, I like!

Github, not so much

Good for you for not using AI. If you want to assume unpaid responsibility for your project, go ahead. Doesn’t mean everybody else will or should.

I brought it up because if you can’t contribute technically, you can contribute monetarily. Money can reduce stress. I bet you if FLOSS maintainers didn’t have to worry about money, they’d be making very different choices in life.

Imagine if rsync were a fully funded project and the maintainer could employ devs and more maintainers to help out. Do you think they’d be happy to use AI? This dude is retired, gives his time to the project and is trying to make things better, but instead of helping, people are berating him for his approach without contributing a damn thing.

We aren’t acting like anything. He wants to work on his passion project and people who have done absolutely nothing for the project are giving their unsolicited opinion on how he should work on his own goddamn project. They can all fuck off. It’s his project. FLOSS maintainers don’t owe us anything. Absolutely, nothing.

It’s his project. He can do whatever he wants to with it. He doesn’t have a “responsibility” to you or anybody else. Stop being so entitled.

Or you could chip in with money instead of complaining on the sidelines.

Do better then. Where’s your contributions?

How do you know which ones to wax through?

Meaning well and blasting the rsync maintainer with absolutist anti-LLM messages are very different things.

Th rsync maintainer is ironing out issues. Use an old version and let him cook. Once things are stable, then pull the new version. If you’re on arch or another unstable distro that always pulls the latest version, this is what you signed up for. Staying on the bleeding edge means you’ll bleed.

It doesn’t excuse attacking he maintainer who seems to be making a genuine effort. That shows a lack of empathy.

And so is “extreme right-winger”? What about Mormon missionary?

Anti-LLM warriors are just like social justice warriors, extreme right-wingers, Mormon missionaries, and pro-lifers: on the ends of spectrums with little to no nuance.

I had an anti-AI signature a while back, but things have changed. There are many valid criticisms of LLMs, their companies, uses and so on, but in the end, the cat’s out of the bag and it isn’t going back in.

Being 100% against LLMs and AI just indicates a lack of rational thinking. Not because you’re against it, but because you’re 100% against it.

It’s provided as is, no warranty, no guarantee. If you built your life around it, that’s on you, not the dev. If you want something else, do it yourself or pay somebody to do it for you.

Thank you. That’s good to know.

Thanks for the response. It’s interesting to read about the experience of others.

That’s definitely not my level of disposable wealth/income. I can barely afford one card.