You wouldn’t believe how many rusty old vicegrips I own because of this sort of thing. Hell, I held a seeder meterbox on with vicegrips this spring, I’m one to talk. Couldn’t get a new holder clip for it, and the meterbox was cracked so I ordered a new one and limped by with the vicegrips until we were done.
Goddamn I hate mice. I just had to tear out the entire contents of a combine cab to get rid of their piss and shit, and fix the wiring they chewed off.
95% isn’t great. I run my own servers on solar and I don’t think I’ve had more than a hourof unexpected downtime in the last 3 years, excluding the usual update reboots.
It’ll be going to the border, this is taxpayer subsidy of US tariff costs to keep steel suppliers costs down so they can sell down south.
I don’t think you’re overexaggerating the potential backlash at all; especially on Lemmy. When I read that blurb at the top I was thinking “Bold move, Cotton…”. If you told me you get death threats over it, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
I’ve vibecoded a number of apps that I haven’t released for about the same reasons you describe. What I have put out have been little helpers with miniscule surface area. But the bigger ones I’ve built and am improving have been tailored to my needs (or for our group) and help immensely. At one time I could have coded them myself (maybe), but I never would have gotten around to it.
What pisses me off the most is when people come down on a FOSS maintainer that uses it to keep up with bugs and security fixes because nobody can be arsed to spend any time helping them, instead they’d rather sit on the internet and criticize other people’s methods of coping with overload.
I mean, I’ve run across badly documented FOSS apps as well, but if I submit a correction, I don’t wrap up my ego in whether they take it or not.
If it’s been open for more than a week or two, I just delete it so it isn’t hanging around my feed. No worries, if that’s how you want to run your project it’s no skin off my nose.
But what kinda dweeb goes off on it in a Reddit post?
It’s already paid for by the store, then they need to buy more to replace it. All this does is sell more Yank whiskey.