artaxadepressedhorse

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 months ago (3 children)

At what point can we all just acknowledge that copyright law has become a public nuisance in its current form

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How do you keep your sanity? Do you just have to compartmentalize everything as extremely abstract and comical when your task is detangling someone's 25,000 line spaghetti God classes and obscure async timing bugs?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'll typically buy albums from artists that I'm pretty certain aren't mega wealthy, and actually I've just been paying less attention to the ones who are. If I check them out on YouTube and they have a Vevo logo on the vid that's a easy way to know they don't need my money at all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I loved the fact that I didn't need an emissions test for several years after buying a new car, but I hate that it essentially boils down to an inconvenience, a tax of sorts, for less financially inclined people. Even if emissions tests are free, it's still time wasted, but only if you're not wealthy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

They're probably just trying to prevent any user momentum away from Chrome from gaining traction. Ensure there remains no better options for the people who don't care about privacy or ethics (which sadly is the bulk of ppl)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I can't justify a subscription bc my activity is very inconsistent. Sometimes I watch several vids on YT, sometimes I go long periods without going there, so I'm not gonna pay for something I don't use half the time. If YT had a system where you could buy credits or something that don't expire, then, depending on their cost, I could see myself actually paying to use their platform.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Orrr, another solution is... what, class?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I aim to do some bug fixes and feature adds come winter when I'm bored, so by all means please submit improvements to the docs as you go 🙏🙂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And followers of other world religions aren't nutcases? Your boycott list must be wrapped around the block.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll never understand the FOSS mentality of "There's already a quality project out there with active development and most of the user-share. Perfect, so I'll utilize my off-time to create my own inferior competitor and fragment the users instead of contribute to the existing one".

I mean, I get it if the existing project maintainers start acting with shady interests - the threat of the fork can be a powerful tool. But it seems like many of these alt projects do it right out of the gate. Meanwhile, it took linux desktop how long to get a functional wifi driver out of the box??

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Can't let fear control you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I first discovered /b/ in '09 so I can't attest to anything prior, but it always met my expectations of what a free as in freedom social space would be like. It won't be the idealistic pretty picture most people wish it was. It will be a mirror reflection of life and humanity. The good the bad the ugly no more no less. Don't like what you see in the mirror? Take it up with the big man upstairs I guess.

 

I get what they were trying to do, bc I'm "in the know", but as I waited in line for 20 mins at the adjacent sorbet stand I realized most people won't get it. The people behind me thought it was meat for dogs (at a vegan fest?? Rly ladies?). And a hipster couple walked past with the guy all in a rage like "that better not be actual dogs!" but ofc he just kept walking. (beautiful display of passive aggressive apathy lol)

 

I'm happy the station is where it is.

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