I had a similar setup a few years back, initially I got a small amount of revenue, but over time things really dropped off.
Despite increasing visitors I was getting less and less income from the adverts, so I too chose to disable them.
I knew it was coming, because even ten years ago I was running an adblocker for myself, but it was still a surprise how quickly it came about for the average Joe.
Looking at the features this seems to be an awesome project, but the commit history (even on the develop branch) shows almost nothing.
No pull-requests, no real issues, it smells like it was auto-generated which is disappointing. Makes it harder to trust if you're going to test with "real data", how do we know it won't be sent elsewhere?
I don't understand why you'd be making this comment when the commit history shows this whole project is a week old.
>how do we know it won't be sent elsewhere?how do we know it won't be sent elsewhere?
I the past open source meant that you trusted in theory that someone else would notice and report these things. These days though just load up your LLM of choice and ask it to do a security audit. There are some unreliable ways to cheat this and they aren't magical, but it would be pretty hard to subvert this kind of audit.
It is usual for a new project to start small, and slowly add new features. Instead this project seems to arrive "fully formed".
There is no "this is the core, then we add S3, then we add RDS, then we add ..." history to view and that seems both unnatural and surprising. Over half the commits are messing around with github actions and documentations.
Definitely this. I like seeing issues reasonably populated with OSS projects. Otherwise, how am I supposed to contribute back to it? Granted it's a newer project so I will be keeping track in the future.
I've used Linux at home for 20+ years, and sometimes mac at work.
To be honest I struggle to notice many changes, my machine was already configured the way I liked it and at work I basically live in only four applications:
Firefox for personal-browsing, chrome for work-browsing, terminal for running terraform, git, etc, and emacs for all development work.
Sure resizing is less good, but I do that once a day, in the morning, when I login. The rest of the changes I just don't notice or care about.
To be honest I find the things I do on my "work" laptop are different to the things I do on my "personal" laptop, and different again to what I do on my desktop machine.
Regardless of which machine I'm using at any given moment I appreciate having "endless history", and the ability to search/filter it. But despite that I don't think I need to actual sync that.
I'm sure there is value to be had from syncing and making all history unified, but it's never appealed to me particularly.
Same story here, I can be used films on DVD for €1 at many charity shops. Boxed sets of TV shows are €2-5 depending on size/popularity.
The only downside is that I've noticed that the used DVD sections are definitely getting smaller. I guess fewer people are donating their collections these days.
I've bought a couple of DVD sets from Amazon, used, but the prices there aren't so competitive. Still it's nice to have physical media, with real/original soundtracks.
Despite increasing visitors I was getting less and less income from the adverts, so I too chose to disable them.
I knew it was coming, because even ten years ago I was running an adblocker for myself, but it was still a surprise how quickly it came about for the average Joe.
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