I recently deleted my Discord account. This is an immediate nope for me.

Especially in the homebrew/modding world some even only distribute their stuff over discord. Which is an extra level of stupid. Dont think anything else can beat this.

I'll see that and raise you a "app is free, but all functionality is paid, which you only find out after you have used the app for its intended purpose and now want the results of the work that you did, specifically when attempting to rescue files from your phone, for instance."

I'll also toss in "all functionality is paid on a subscription model that automatically renews unless you manually disable it and you have to buy at least in one year increments"

That's not the case at all. For ads, perhaps, but in application purchases? Many games (especially free to play games, of which there are many excellent ones) have purchases you can make in the game.

Helldivers 2 is an excellent game, and that has DLC packs and individual items you can purchase in game. So does World of Tanks (which is also free to play).

Even some perfectly normal applications have that tag, because there's a shareware version (maybe with a launch nag "Ad") and the full paid version (which may only cost a few quid), that you can upgrade to from within the free version. It still counts, even if it's just a one time thing.

There are many scummy practices some game/application makers employ using ads or in-app purchases, but many don't, and both types have that sort of label applied.

Honestly, I see that label applied to basically everything these days, so I just ignore it and judge the application based on the nuance of how their monetisation is presented.

Ubuntus package repo is so out of date though. It's such a pain in the ass.

My distro has one of the highest amount of software packaged, yet i regularly find software i like that isn't. There will always be software that isn't packaged yet useful, i reckon.

This is why I avoid Bluesky

What's wrong with em dashes? I use it wherever English syntax requires it.

I tried to explain that to my manager but he didn't believe me

Had a conversation with someone recently about exactly this. Usage of AI generated assets gives me exactly the same feelings as a local business using a gmail or personal ISP email account on their advertising.

It doesn't automatically mean it's bad, but it's an indication that whoever is running things just can't be bothered to put in effort.

Ah, sounds like my workplace.

That’s why they bought it

100%.

Then you look through their history and it's them laugh emojiing something like doing a LGBT suicide or some ridiculous shit.

Depends. Software can be done.

inline comments pointlessly describing some change, as if you want to know what that block of code used to do more than what it actually does?

Oh, shit, am AI.

Emoji ridden repos just scream scam to me, too. I feel like people who genuinely want to make an app and actually keep it maintained wouldn't resort to AI slop code or even a description.