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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Keep in mind that software doesn't have an expiry date. If a piece of software is unmaintained and doesn't have an active fork but it still fulfills your use case and doesn't have any major issues, there's no need to replace it. Some of the software I use hasn't seen any updates in five years but I still use it because it still works.

    Edit: As an example, a lot of people still use WinDirStat even though the latest release 1.1.2 is now 17 years old.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Desktop - Linux - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
    Desktop - Windows - Maybe it still runs in a compatibility mode?
    Desktop - iMac - Here's an emulator, good luck.

    Mobile - PostMarketOS - Yes, likely. If not, here's a flatpak
    Mobile - Android - Maybe? Try it and see if you get permission denial
    Mobile - iPhone - Fuck you, no.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Windows is pretty good with backwards compatibility, probably the best out of anything. I can run Visual Basic apps I wrote in the early 2000s on Windows 11 and they still run fine. Some old 32-bit games work fine too. You can even run some 16-bit Windows 3.0 apps on 32-bit Windows 10 if you manually install NTVDM through the Windows features (it was never ported to 64-bit though)

    Linux is okay for backcompat but I'm not sure an app I compiled 20 years ago would still run today.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Simplemobiletools --> Fossify is pretty epic

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    The unmaintained repo has a link in the readme pointing to the best fork

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    This is the problem, making the fork known to the userbase of the original software. When the Atom text editor was killed by Microsoft we decided to fork it as Pulsar but it was an uphill struggle to really get the word out. We got a massive boost when the youtuber Distrotube featured us in an episode and again with an itsfoss article but we still routinely find people who have been using Atom without knowing we even exist.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Even better when someone forked it away from proprietary, closed-source, publicly-traded, for-profit, US-based, account-required, training-AI-on-your-code-then-selling-it-back-to-you Microsoft GitHub forge/social media network often with vendor lock-in to some other forge without all that BS.

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  • [+] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Yeah, it would be nice if it was easier for devs to just turn over the project to an "official" fork. Unfortunately, I'm sure that would get abused by scammers taking over projects forcefully and adding in malware before anyone notices.

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