GitHub - dylanaraps/neofetch: 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
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🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+ - dylanaraps/neofetch

The author’s profile says this:

“Have taken up farming.”

    • Reawake9179@lemmy.kde.social
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      1 year ago

      As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i’m fine with running abandoned ware.

      If something stops working it’s time to find out the alternatives.

      Not every little tool needs weekly updates

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        As long as it works perfectly and it makes no security related headlines, i’m fine with running abandoned ware.

        That means Windows XP is perfectly okay as abandon ware, becuase it makes no security related headlines. :p (just joking!)

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      On arch’s user repository, packages can get marked as out of date, unmaintained, and sometimes removed entirely.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    1·
    1 year ago

    Finally it’s official. I think it’s a good move to make it an archived repository, so everyone knows for a fact this is not developed anymore. That means bugs or security issues are no longer actively searched and corrected. I wonder if this program will be taken out from distribution repositories now. My personal alternative is fastfetch .

    Edit: … oh, I didn’t realize all of his repositories are now archived. Not only neofetch: https://github.com/dylanaraps?tab=repositories

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he’s doing now

      • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        Looking at the readme edit history: https://github.com/dylanaraps/dylanaraps/commits/master/

        1. First edit 3 years ago: Away till the New Year. Merry Christmas.
        2. Then next edit 10 month ago replacing that line with: On hiatus.
        3. Then next edit 4 days ago replacing that line with: Have taken up farming.

        English is not my native language, and I don’t understand what “Have taken up farming.”, but I have my guesses. means. Normally I don’t interpret such a situation, but it doesn’t look good. Most contributions of the software is 3 years old, and only a few readme and link updates recently are made alongside making everything archived.

        • bjorney@lemmy.ca
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          1 year ago

          English is not my native language, and I don’t understand what “Have taken up farming.”

          It means they aren’t developing software anymore because they are growing vegetables instead

  • riodoro1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Software which achieved no actual purpose discontinued. Open source community in tears.