Definitely need to pay themselves. Doing this for free is not sustainable over long periods.

They are inadvertently helping Lemmy become more robust

If there’s one thing we learned from COVID, it’s that the best way to get rid of a virus is by soap and water.

I do, when I’m out. But I’ve become a hermit since the pandemic started.

Night shift is the fucking best if you have ADHD. You have no traffic at all on your commute to and from work, you just show up and do your job (no useless phone calls or emails to distract you), you eat lunch at like fuckin 1am so there’s no crowd, you get done with your work and just clock out (no stupid-ass meetings), and when you get home you just crash and sleep for as long as you want. Wake up at like noon, and you’ve got the whole afternoon to run errands or fuck off, and then casually go back to work that night.

Yes. And this isn’t a knee-jerk reaction from them. They’ve been working on a CentOS clone ever since Red Hat decided to make it more unstable and cutting edge. So it’s quite natural for them to step in and do this.