I'm pretty obsessive about keeping my car clean, but I also use a vape. It's no contest: cleaning up after vaping is 100x easier than cleaning up after actual smoke.

private repo they commit to and build from

This isn't possible with Ruby and Mastodon. The only way to distribute the patch is to reveal the changes to the source. FWIW, compiling the fix is still just an obfuscation method, one can still just diff the binaries and see what changed (see: reverse-engineering Windows vulnerabilities in updates).

At best, you can release it with a bunch of unrelated and obfuscating changes, but putting work into doing that is further delaying simply getting the fix released.

Nice, good thing MSI didn't just show off a monitor that only relies on the video output specifically for League of Legends to illustrate how actually useless this level of access is.

Fractional scaling (per-display), input isolation...

If you're also learning vim: VSCode + vscodevim = life (literally how I make a living)

Amazon already built it: https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk

I've been daily-driving Fedora Silverblue (if KDE is your taste, Kinoite) and have been very happy with it.

I interpreted that in the sense of "service call", like going out to some remote site to do something menial

Nice, what's your email stack look like?