This is a hard truth. I looked at my own Show HN post history, some are definitely in the graveyard.

Savage, but accurate.

But I argue for these projects to have a long tail, they need revenue.

A few have tried by selling hardware, but it never lands mainstream enough.

Started on this with OpenELEC. Nowadays LibreELEC.

Just feels the best that it's not a commercial product, rather a project built by cool people.

I can't find references now, but Gnome or Ubuntu had a phase where they were booting the desktop with under 128MB of RAM.

It would be great if LibreOffice had a spurt of speed-ups. Kind what the browser wars also competed fiercely about.

I love the idea that these can live forever in apt/rpm repositories.

This is a good reminder for myself to get some onion addresses for my sites and spread awareness of Tor.

TIL that Onion-Location is a header, only new about the <meta> element.

  <meta http-equiv="onion-location" content="http://<your-onion-service-address>.onion" />

The "http-equiv" in that meta tag means "equivalent HTTP header", FYI.

But it's not always followed. Most HTTP headers aren't interpreted when specified with http-equiv, and vide versa.

Pay to play.

Even the blog too!

That and the Internet Archive.

The Internet Archive deserve it more.

And they actually need it.

And it's a brilliant example of a PWA.

IIRC, you can also use it via npx, i.e, in the terminal!

At least the planet download offers BitTorrent. https://planet.openstreetmap.org/

So does Wikipedia https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data_dump_torrents

Truly the last two open web titans.