Linux Mint Debian Edition is my standard recommendation for desktop for those newer folks.

Straight up Debian for everything else. Debian is my desktop. And all of my servers (aside from some things I’m testing for work or something where I need to test against RHEL or something).

And Proxmox for VMs.

The libraries are completely open. There are 3 types of licenses - Qt Commercial (allows using qt libraries to make closed source applications), lgpl (2.1 with exceptions and 3.0) and gpl (2 & 3).

The KDE team has not moved away from Qt since the troll tech days because there is no need to move away from L/GPL libraries.

The bit about it “not being open source” is because Qt had its own Qt Free Edition License back in the 90’s which the FSF decided at one point that it didn’t meet their definition of free.

It then went QPL with a foundation that guaranteed a BSD style license if anything happened (like being bought out).

In 2000 they went GPL.

Another old guy here! slack in 93, just shy of being a teen

Hung out with Patrick some 15ish years later which was wild to me at the time, what a nice dude

Like many users of instances you already de-federated from, I won’t see beehaw regardless, so it would have no impact on me.

You want a closed forum, make a closed forum. Whether it runs on lemmy or something else.

Lost my dad a few years ago leading into the holidays.

It sucks. But remembering them is nice. I keep an album of my dad that’s part of the rotation of photos that goes on my TV, and those memories are great.

Now at least. 3 years ago they were rough to see. And I should point out - my dad has ALS and we knew it was coming. Doesn’t make it better when it happens.

I hope your days get better soon. Take it one at a time. You’ll get through this.

An sfp is just a modular plug - the physical media is what matters for the patch. So you’d get a fiber jack or rj45 depending on what cable you’re running. The only thing relevant to the sfp/sfp+ module is the switch you’re sticking it in.