Valid point, I did exactly that before getting on to omarchy on the laptop and cachyos on the pc. Ran my own arch config for about 2 years but got tired of maintaining. Plus wanted a bit more developer centric ready dotfiles and omarchy is doing that really well.

you can take the distro and leave the person's views out.

Absolutely not, when the fame and money it brings, it's brought to political agendas. It's very comfortable to think that you can separate the capitalist marketing from the political agenda of the owner. Just like buying a Tesla and not caring about what Musk does to the US and the world. Simply impossible to separate

but isn't this open source? where is the capitalist marketing angle coming in with the distro? minus the automatic basecamp setup which is one command uninstall away, no?

Open source initiatives are like the handsome face he puts in front to just bring his terrible agenda forward. It's a front to make people adore his rich man figure of self made entepreneur. It's not by chance that every week or two, someone enthusiastic comes here and does a post no one reads on the subject. Let's uncover his spammy paid guys who have political agendas, and plant seed of hatred with a smiling face.

There are better open source projects, why give prominence to bad projects under the control of bad actors? It would be an inexcusable waste of precious open source efforts.

I understand what you mean and I've tried a few but haven't found something that's out of the box geared to dev the way Omarchy is, hence kept at it. Will keep an eye out in general for alternatives as much as I love Omarchy.

interesting - how have you managed to deal with those? especially the fuzzy brain syndrome? has it also affected how performance and reporting is perceived by the managers? since moving goalposts and unclear agendas would also mean that it would affect performance in reports and project reviews

There is no cure for fuzzy brained managers, especially if they are friends with the upper managers.

I simply took minutes in meetings and presented requests to be signed by relevant managers. For the most part they declined. But I filed them anyway. Being a contractor sooner or later I declined to renew / extend my contract and moved on.

Since the face is smiling, maybe there can be a bit of leeway for their response times :p

what are you smoking up bro?!

I'll have what he's having

I guess another way to think about lead time in open source might be to gauge the overall project health: more active and engaged community that is. What do you think??

yea totally, in fact I felt these smaller creators have a great aesthetic to their videos - much slower than your usual heavily edited videos :)

Interesting read, I noticed the mention of very high cycle times, can an AI manager really speed up spotting issues with the quality a human engineering manager can? Or is the point that this makes the job much easier as opposed to replacing the EMs?

Thinking about causation versus correlation is crucial!

Makes me wonder, how often do people realize this only after making expensive decisions?

Would be interesting to hear stories from people who have experienced this first hand

any specifics on the marketing activities that you know of? blogs and seo does take time but pr campaigns etc and influencer campaigns can help fastrack that

One way that works moderately well is to mark certain topics as not interested when they are presented and like and watch the other topics for a longer time.

I've used the above to keep my YT landing page relatively clear of things I'm not interested in.

Once in a while it will suggest you a highly popular or interesting off topic item, but yea that is once in a while.

Basically what I'm saying is that we need to train their algorithm to our tastes through watching and marking things as not interested, don't show me this channel etc.

I do this time to time; but I also watch a lot of nonsense on the same account. Wish there were more controls to premium account.