Yes, support and peace of mind. Packages that make it into their repository are fully tested and supported by RH. Almost all of them are old but they are pretty much guaranteed stable and Red Hat will support the software until the EOL of whichever RH version you are running, even if the developers of the package do not support a version of the package anymore.
Does your income come from donations or is there another revenue source? I ask because OP said that successful meant "provides the majority of the person's income" in this context. I'm curious if donations were enough to provide that or if I'm missing something.
I think the problem is that it's not a very useful graph. I think breaking out the overall IT into other areas would make more sense with smaller percentages being shown as "Other".
As a previous web developer, I had the most success with the 1 to 2 person companies and with companies that were 20+ employees. It was the SMB in the middle range there that were trouble. The small-town-successful companies.
I think the updating of the page title in the browser tab is the main feature. Also, the favicon updates. So you can be doing something in another tab and see the timer in the timer tab.
I'm curious too. I can't think of any reason I would use this. Maybe to use during an online course or something, but most of them offer a way to do that already.
Not OP, but I've heard of people getting hijacked and finding a bunch of VPSs spun up sending out spam and other malware related stuff. Maybe that's what they mean.
A fairly powerful, fanless computer with a 6 year warranty that can run multiple 4K displays for less than a well built MBPro is probably worth it to quite a few people. Besides people who just "want" a fanless PC, there are lab applications that require noiseless computers. Noiseless lab computers are VERY expensive. I'm sure there are many other professional use cases where $1800 isn't that much money. Maybe video/audio production?
This is actually one of the few types of examples that I think fit here. Most of the other people are just posting their side projects. When I clicked this I was expecting some quick bash/batch/python/etc. scripts that do useful things.
There was a small discussion recently (last week maybe?) about having a site similar to the old fuckedcompany. I'm guessing that's why it made any traction.
The star button on Github is kind of similar to "liking" a repo. Stargazers, I'm guessing, are the group of people that have clicked the star button on a repo.
Sounds cool. I'm probably not going to install it without an idea of what it's capable of. Maybe a better README with some examples and screenshots would be helpful.
You'll probably want to start with the GNU Social source code and also take a look at mastodon to see how they hook into GNU Social.
As for decentralizing, my thought would be that it should have been a developed around that from the start. I'm not an expert in it but I think that projects would be built around the decentralized idea and not later modified to be decentralized.
I've found that using RVM, much like using virtualenv in python, has helped me with Ruby issues. It doesn't work exactly like virtualenv but it's pretty close.
I like how in one of the demo videos a guy is plugging his macbook into the hydradock, but he has a thunderbolt apple monitor and all apple wireless accessories. So, this guy spent $1000+ on apple hardware that plugs into his macbook with one cable but instead he's going to use this dock.
It's funny that they say that because I would say, if I did call things hipster, that this was hipster. Typically hipsters are defined as people that go against mainstream. Well this is pretty far from current, popular app dev environments.