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fg137 | on: Briar is in maintenance mode
Fighting complex technical and non-technical issues "with code" may be the most programmer way of thinking about things.

To begin with, that 200 dollars need to come from somewhere. Are you going to personally contribute to that 200 dollars? If not, someone needs to find money from somewhere. Then, I can assure you it's going to be much more than 200 dollars before you realize it.

timcobb | parent
Who spent the time to make this? If those people spent countless hours doing it by hand, maybe they would be willing to spend an analogous resource? It seems reasonable to me if you've already invested so much and paid in time.

But yeah that's why I was asking if this was a non-code issue? Because they're presenting it as hey, we couldn't figure out the battery life in this post.

fg137 | root | parent
$200 mean very different things to different people.

I would never say it's "reasonable" to expect anyone (including maintainers) to contribute money or code to an open source project.

Must be easy for you to type these things from your comfortable armchair.

timcobb | root | parent
So what's the point of spending months and months and months of your time just to shut down your project when it could possibly be worked out for several $100? Is the situation that the authors have a lot of time and no money? Could we get the project some money if that's the case? Apps like this are so important. Every year they become more critical.

And I would like if someone could please confirm is this related to literal code problems or systemic problems with Apple and Google?

fg137 | root | parent
It seems that you still haven't realized the gigantic hole in your arguments even after I already pointed them out.

If you don't know what open source software is or how projects are typically run (including where the funding, if any, comes from), educate yourself before posting meaningless texts in a forum.

palata | root | parent
> It seems that you still haven't realized the gigantic hole in your arguments

> educate yourself before posting meaningless texts

Sorry, but you are being a jerk.

They just ask why someone putting so much effort into a project would not want to spend 200$ on saving it. That is a totally fair question. And you seem to be completely missing why spending 200$ on AI wouldn't solve the problem. Which is okay. But being a jerk while being wrong is not a good combination IMO.