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What happened to the original project ? Maintainer just suddenly went radio silent ?

LorenDB 2y ago
Yes, radio silence for two years, then he archived all his repos and added a notice somewhere that he has taken up farming: https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-rip/ https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-rip/
- ethanholt1 2y ago
  Reminds me of “I no longer build software, I now build furniture out of wood.” https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477 https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
  - nolongerthere 2y ago
    Hilarious that you have that saved. Any reason for why? Building up the courage to follow suit and use this for encouragement perhaps?
    - bee_rider 2y ago
      FWIW it was posted in a popular thread here in the last few days.
  - fmajid 2y ago
    Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine, the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.
    - popey 2y ago
      Love that book. It enabled me to have one of my favourite flights of all time. Sat next to Chris Turner, chatting about his time at Acorn for about 9 hours. I blogged about something related and included this anecdote part way through. https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ - under "A short aside"
- jongjong 2y ago
  This has been a personal fantasy of mine. Every time I read a story about someone dropping software and buying a farm, I'm overcome with envy.
  - HankB99 2y ago
    Not my fantasy. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html
  - bee_rider 2y ago
    Maybe try to take a sabbatical and start a garden instead. Farmers deal with annoying shit in their day jobs just like the rest of us… except theirs is literal!
  - bityard 2y ago
    I'm not a farmer but I'm from the midwest and I know a little about farming... very few are farmers by choice. Many have second jobs, just to pay the bills. There are niche and upscale farms that grow specific things like apples and wine grapes that can do quite well, but these are well established family-run businesses that would cost millions of dollars to buy, when they come up for sale at all.
- soygem 2y ago
  Gigachad meme personified. "Archives hyper-popular Linux utility - picks up farming - leaves".
  - xanderlewis 2y ago
    A bit like Perelman who rejected a Fields medal and then told a journalist who dared to ring him up after he had moved to the Russian countryside ‘You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms’.
- echelon_musk 2y ago
  "This isn't so bad, huh? Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside."
- Apocryphon 2y ago
  More and more such cases! https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947 https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947

Yes, radio silence for two years, then he archived all his repos and added a notice somewhere that he has taken up farming: https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-rip/ https://news.itsfoss.com/neofetch-rip/

ethanholt1 2y ago
Reminds me of “I no longer build software, I now build furniture out of wood.” https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477 https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149...
- nolongerthere 2y ago
  Hilarious that you have that saved. Any reason for why? Building up the courage to follow suit and use this for encouragement perhaps?
  - bee_rider 2y ago
    FWIW it was posted in a popular thread here in the last few days.
- fmajid 2y ago
  Or in Tracey Kidder's book The Soul of a New Machine, the hardware engineer who tires of debugging nanosecond timing heisenglitches, moves to a commune in Vermont where he will not have to deal with units of time less than a season.
  - popey 2y ago
    Love that book. It enabled me to have one of my favourite flights of all time. Sat next to Chris Turner, chatting about his time at Acorn for about 9 hours. I blogged about something related and included this anecdote part way through. https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ https://popey.com/blog/2023/09/a-virus-for-the-bbc-micro/ - under "A short aside"
jongjong 2y ago
This has been a personal fantasy of mine. Every time I read a story about someone dropping software and buying a farm, I'm overcome with envy.
- HankB99 2y ago
  Not my fantasy. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/bought-the-farm.html
- bee_rider 2y ago
  Maybe try to take a sabbatical and start a garden instead. Farmers deal with annoying shit in their day jobs just like the rest of us… except theirs is literal!
- bityard 2y ago
  I'm not a farmer but I'm from the midwest and I know a little about farming... very few are farmers by choice. Many have second jobs, just to pay the bills. There are niche and upscale farms that grow specific things like apples and wine grapes that can do quite well, but these are well established family-run businesses that would cost millions of dollars to buy, when they come up for sale at all.
soygem 2y ago
Gigachad meme personified. "Archives hyper-popular Linux utility - picks up farming - leaves".
- xanderlewis 2y ago
  A bit like Perelman who rejected a Fields medal and then told a journalist who dared to ring him up after he had moved to the Russian countryside ‘You are disturbing me. I am picking mushrooms’.
echelon_musk 2y ago
"This isn't so bad, huh? Making bucks, getting exercise, working outside."
Apocryphon 2y ago
More and more such cases! https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947 https://twitter.com/timokonkwo_/status/1785340149582143947