If the build script being a DSL is the issue, they're even experimenting around declarative gradle scripts [0], which is going to be nice for people used to something like maven.

0: https://declarative.gradle.org/

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnfnF7otEnk

> If your free tier is so lucrative that you need to 25x the cost, then your free tier is > too expansive and you need to tone it down until the economics make sense.

It does make sense, though. That's how almost every subsidized system works, and the benefit applies for everyone until they scale to a point where they are not legible for it. It does suck for the pool of people that just began paying the actual price of the service instead of the subsidized one, and certainly more so if they're not actually getting profit from it but then again, it isn't like they weren't benefitting from the price up to that point, otherwise they wouldn't have chosen it. Luckily enough, as far as databases go, there's a gazillion options to choose from and experiences like this are invaluable when it comes to picking one with a pricing model that fits the scaling requirements of a given project, and not only the technical merits.

Also as a side rant, I honestly don't think "projects of love" are a good counter argument to anything. They're clearly not of love because otherwise they would find a way to make them profitable. Most people are either lazy to, or lack the knowledge of how to turn their hobby into a marketable thing. Which is fine, nobody wants to deal with business when it comes to their hobbies, but one can't have it both ways. Either your hobby project gets successful and you find ways to cover its expenses, or you realize that your hobby project needs to be kept just a hobby project.

All of that said, not particularly speaking for OpenAPK here, given their motives seems rather unclear to me. If I am to be charitable, I guess they're just trying to provide a different platform than f-droid for discoverability, but for whatever reason they seem to be marketing the distribution-side of things more which is just odd to me, but alas.

1: https://github.com/SpongePowered/Mixin/wiki/Introduction-to-...

This is a hasty generalization; while I agree on the fact that Milei was incompetent in promoting a memecoin as a financial instrument, that doesn't necessarily mean he is a bad economist all of the sudden, nor that the things he has done for Argentina are inherently bad, it just means he was incompetent on this matter. I am painfully aware of how divided the country is on the current government and its actions, however that doesn't invite sweeping judgments based on a single event. Criticism should be specific and supported by broader evidence rather than assuming total incompetence from one mistake.

Just providing context here, this is what one of the OBS maintainers said in Brodie Robertson's video [1] about this issue:

> Hi, Joel from OBS here, thanks for the coverage! I can confirm that we absolutely did not want to have to resort to this, but did not feel that they were taking the concerns seriously, and when they resorted to calling us "terrible maintainers" we felt they made their position clear. I'd like to also let folks know that Neal Gompa (who opened the request to remove the Flatpak in addition to ours) manages the RPM, and we do not, and have not, ever had any issues with the RPM which is packaged properly.

With that in context, I'd like to believe while still a bit hostile, it was necessary since they really didn't care about what's being asked here.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJJvq3dpylM

One would need citation for either claim honestly, there's plenty studies around the idea that social media actually doesn't have as much of an impact on mental health as people seem to believe, as well as the other way around. If we get more specific, people who have or are prone to certain psychological conditions do get aggravated by social media, but the same way that's true, it could be for anything else would there not be social media. In the end, what the comment says holds true regardless of how it may affect their long-term mental health

I think this advice is generally harmful to networking as someone grows, which is vital in today's society

They kind of have been doing just that, their jetbrains AI assistant has an integration comparable to cursor's, just the model itself isn't as good which is a shame