Only until enshittification kicks in
The fuck is this stupid ass meme format lol
My first thought as well
All-Star team
You’ve never worked on software in a big company have you?
There are definitely a lot of brilliant engineers working at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, they just get hamstrung by management.
I can only speak for myself, but I used to love to get home from work and contribute to free software projects I found interesting. Since I got a good paying tech job at a big company, the last thing I want to do is more of the same when I get home. (having kids around the same time probably had an influence too).
OK who changed the wojak into a beautiful woman?
It was on Lemmy World’s All[0] less than 10 days ago.
Yeah, that’s where I pulled it from.
wojak is a beautiful woman
That art style is pretty off-putting tbh.
The naked woman is kinda odd too
She might be wearing a tube top. Need a wider angle to be sure.
But when the open source app becomes the best one, it becomes impossible to beat it. Look VLC for example.
There are a few examples where the foss version of the app became the best one. I am having trouble remembering others. But I think BitWarden is just as good as any paid password manager.
Or Blender
Depending on what you’re trying to create blender is very easily beat by other programs. Almost every time a friend watches me use blender I’ll get hit with “this would be so much easier in fusion 360”
Vlc is basically what it is because of ffmpeg and the likes, which are… Corporate supported :p
That said ffmpeg didnt start that way, but at one point it was and vlc quickly jumped into popularity because of it and it quickly supporting new formats ( like mkv back in 2003/2004 ).
Youre not wrong, but its more complex than that xD
Organic Maps is the upgrade over Google Maps.
You’re not wrong. I use it a lot. it’s super for short local trips and maybe medium trips.
When I asked it to go a few states over, routing cost me a couple of hours last time before I realized something was off.
Use it, but scrutinize it.
The same should be said for any GPS app.
Card end up down pedestrian paths because the driver didn’t think about what the GPS was telling them.
The only reason I use Google Maps is I use an old ass phone with limited storage space, and it won’t let me remove Google Maps.
And if it’s so good, why haven’t they released an Open Source 2?
If you like open source THAT much, why don’t you marry it??
Fork me, baby 🫦
Child Processes Spawned
Because it’s so good that a v2 is not needed.
We got gpl3
if gplv3 so good, why there no gplv4??
checkmate
AGPL is gplv4. Yahtzee
AGPL2 when
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All those Silicon Valley brogrammers would have “OpS2 evangelist” in their bio.
That sounds like exploitation of free labor with extra steps and a vegan coat.
“Slightly worse”. I got a job and was not allowed to use a linux laptop, so I went with mac. I was almost worried that I would like the “just works” aspects everyone have been so exited about. Wow. What a piece of shit it is. Settings items takes forever to load after boot, mouse feels like it is stuck in mud (even if I remove accelleration and increase speed), it cannot wake many monitors up from sleep, it completely disables the keyboard momentarily when activating the screen (and if it fails to wake it, it becomes a flashing, keyboard grabbing nightmare). The window management? I can set up a workspace on this and that keybind, “oh, you disconnected the monitor, well we permuted the keybinds for you” wtf? When I get home and switch to linux, it is such a relief.
Lol, since the last major update I can’t type a tilde or a backtick, presumably because it doesn’t recognize my keyboard type?? And I had to install another program that prevent Apple Music from opening each time I connect/disconnect bluetooth headphones?? Or to add week numbers to the calendar widget. Even Gnome isn’t that bad.
I had that from the start… It cannot distinguish some keyboards, and I have two versions of my layout I have to switch between. All keybords work the same on linux, but mac, nah.
And updates? Holy shit! They broke ssh! It was broken like a month. Ssh connections just died as ‘corrupted’ all the time. And they don’t hotfix it asap? How can a company trust to use them as a work laptop if they break it and don’t fix it?
presumably because it doesn’t recognize my keyboard type??
The answer by Apple (and their parroting fanbois): You don’t actually need those keys. It’s confusing for users to have too many characters.
this is what they mean by “just works” is that it doesn’t do much of anything.
It means what is not already happening will never happen.
Tinkering is for hippies and hippies are communist.
I guess it matters what you mean by hippies. My dad and all the other old foggies he smoked pot with in the '60s are all #MAGA now.
I got a job and was not allowed to use a linux laptop, so I went with mac.
Same. 2015. I could have pushed them to let me use Linux, but it would have been making waves in a remote shop. The 2015 MacBook hardware was decent, so I got it. Domain binding was still in fashion. 99 problems. Finally, I got it okay-ish, set up Brew, it’s a hack. I started trying to use the terminal to do things, almost no config available, the disk mount subsystem was alien, the logs were crap. Since then, the hardware and compatibility has just gotten awful.
Slightly worse? I can actually sort and the video player actually works, instead of whatever the FUCK was going on with the other place, for literally ever.
It’s not, though. It’s a big reason why I’m here, in fact. Boost for Android is awesome!
Boost went open-source?
Oh that’s a good point, I don’t know (or care) if Boost is open source. I was more referring to Lemmy.
I’ve been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?
Meanwhile a bunch of nerds working for free on a passion project are giving away software that is faster and easier to use and often more beautiful to look at.
I guess I’ve simply reiterated what the post image said, so ignore me maybe, but fuck this is depressing and disappointing. All these corporate resources and all they can do is barely achieve what other people do for free in their spare time? What a fucking waste of human life and energy is capitalism.
I’ve been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?
Not only do I agree with you, I also want to point out the telemetry whackamole for those who care. (And those who don’t care aren’t going to bother with the whackamole, but their privacy is being violated just the same as those who do care.)
For real open source projects, it’s a lot of the time not nerds working for free.
All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).
And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.
There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.
This isn’t inherently bad, but it’s not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.
I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren’t working for free.
That seems like the system working as intended. Once enough work has gone into open source projects, even the profit-driven entities see they will make more money by improving those open source projects instead of following their default plan of reinventing the wheel and keeping it proprietary and locked down.
Technically, MacOS doesn’t cost money to use and has no ads.
Slightly worse in design, far better in consumer-friendliness!
And then you have Blender, Krita, OBS, VLC, bitwarden & Let’s Encrypt.
But tons of corporate contribution to big open source projects so it is sometimes grey.
Not sure it’s grey, it’s great when big corporate give back, just ot when they take over and pervert the ideals of open source to their breaking point.
Voyager for Lemmy is some seriously gourmet shit.
But seriously the answer is usually that the big company is trying to apply to ALL USERS and usually only pleases a subset or none of those users.
Voyager isn’t for you? That’s fine, Lemmy has a nice API and you can build whatever you like. Lemmy is also open so if that API isn’t nice you can provide suggestions and fixes.
I’m not saying it’s perfect, but it’s a pretty good place to be.
Look at early Twitter or formerly Reddit. A nice API. Tons of fantastic clients. Open source is the best, but even just “open” is a fantastic first step.
Voyager is indeed a really good app for Lemmy. It is based on Apollo app which was the best, and IMO, the only sensible way to browse Reddit on iOS.
I am glad @aeharding@vger.social had a working version ready merely days after the new TOS came into effect.
I have been using it since it was called Wefwef (which I still feel was a better name, more playful), and I liked it so much that I use it on my Android phone as well as my iOS daily driver.
