miniblog.

I'm fascinated to learn that hard disk repair services will replace individual components in disks for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iiEKZhDapo Needing a clean room is a pretty major hurdle to doing the maintenance yourself.

@esvrld@octodon.social Zing! 😆 Now you mention it, I'd be really interested to see data on how many times maintenance has changed hands. Adding a maintainer is great, repeatedly changing can indicate abandonware.

Red Hat/Fedora is the biggest supporter of https://x.org/, and they expect it to move to maintenance-only soon: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Maintenance-Mode-Quickly