• Great Blue Heron@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Sadness and dread is a perfect description. As I started reading I was building a mental list of things to stop using - I didn’t get very far before I gave up. So many projects I’ve held up in high regard.

        Sadness, dread and defeat.

        Edit to add - I want to be clear that I’m not judging the developers of these projects. If they’re being overwhelmed with AI generated PRs, they’re being forced to use these tools in their “real jobs” and it spills over, or they just feel that this is the way things are going or whatever reason - they’ve got to do what they’ve got to do to survive. My sadness, dread and defeat comes from the state of the world and this is just the symptom that’s currently front of mind.

        • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          There are many viable and better alternatives than what’s on that list. there’s really nothing there that should make you think “oh…I don’t know what to use now” most of the stuff listed is garbage anyways. Like take Zen Browser for example. you can essentially do that yourself on just about any fork of firefox by simply editing the userChrome.css. Librewolf is another example of “doing it yourself” on just about any fork or firefox or just firefox itself.

          • Great Blue Heron@lemmy.caEnglish
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            3 months ago

            Really?

            My list of “not trivial to replace” is:

            • firefox - desktop and android
            • ImageMagik - I don’t use it directly, but other things I use depend on it
            • VLC - yeah, I know there are other options but VLC has so much else going for it, it’s hard to change
            • Jellyfin - what’s the alternative? Kodi? Oh wait…
            • curl
            • rsync
            • .NET - I don’t use it directly, but things I use depend on it
            • python
            • vim - I’ve been using vi for 35 years, I’m not changing now. But I’m happy to use old versions.
            • Joplin - argh, just finished migrating my documentation into here
            • KeepassXC
            • Mastodon
            • Lemmy
            • systemd
            • Linux Kernel!!