I cannot code my way out of a paper bag, unless it is the mid 90’s and it is coded in very basic HTML. I do however sadly use Claude because I do not currently have anything strong enough to run Ollama. I use a lot of open source things but feel guilty about not having money to pay for all the services I use so I like to think of it as a socialist type system; I have scripts to download and share the newest iso torrent’s of pi OS and Debian, I use CrowdSec to catch bots, and I now have my own crawler for mwmbl for searXNG. Are there other things people would suggest I do?
I’d suggest stop feeling bad. People put Free Software out there for other humans to make use of. You can take it and use it as you like.
Contributions are welcome. But it’s not some kind of tit-for-tat situation. Maybe you can contribute other things to society. Doesn’t have to be money or computer code…
I know it is just my idiotic capitalist heart, I would much prefer socialism but the world aint ready for that.
Though, that’s most certainly a lie, isn’t it? Who told you the world isn’t ready for socialism? The enemies of socialism?? Don’t you think they have a vested interest in spreading that narrative???
All I can say Linux works perfectly well on my computer, wifi router… I’ve been using Free Software for most of my adult life. I’ve literally witnessed the internet work quite differently from what it’s become in the last 15 years… And we still have Free and independent services as of today. Independent forums, social media, video platforms, chat, mail… It’s a thing. It’s just up to the people to pick one of the matrix pills and either see what’s out there, or take the other one and believe in the non-socialist story.