It has some application in technical writing, data transformation and querying/summarization but it is definitely being oversold.

I wish there was a mobile app of the same quality as plexamp for jellyfin.

A well deserved rtfm

‘Lol’ Three simple characters. “FLOSS software? Ridiculous. So DUMB.” He says to himself. Finally a single tap and his snarky comment begins it’s instantaneous travail through countless GPL licensed unix systems to reach his victim - an ignorant commenter on an open-source, federated lemmy instance.

I don’t like it and wouldn’t buy an HP as my next printer for software reasons alone. I’d suggest supporting another company or getting a used HP for free or next to nothing and buying refilled cartridges from aliexpress or amazon for 30-40% of what HP charges (this is what I do). It’s a shitty practice but it doesn’t make me want to get daddy government involved.

“Right to Repair” is different. If I buy a printer and the ink chassis breaks and I’m capable of sourcing a part and fixing it myself then I have a right to do that on my own because it’s mine.

Edit: As an aside if we explanded my initial proposal to encompass FLOSS hardware as well as software this wouldn’t be a problem because companies would be tripping over themselves for the government contracts.

What we need to do is: Make it illegal to run a business

Twitter doesn’t owe anyone anything. Kamala could go post anywhere else but she’s not even though the left hates Elon.

The idea that we should pass laws to force twitter to show certain info and expose endpoints to support third party apps is ridiculous. It’s their data and they aren’t putting a gun to anyone’s head.

Passing a law forcing the government to use only FLOSS software for day-to-day activities solves this problem, actually makes sense on a principle level and isn’t a ridiculous overreach of power.

…so it’s like it was during the hunter biden laptop story and covid?

You’re impressing no one. Enjoy being miserable.

Your life is a meme and you have forgotten how to communicate without them.

You know nothing about me. Why are you raving like a lunatic?

No, and just writing pithy things doesn’t make them true.

You’ve gotten mad about the gender thing now in our short correspondence. I think you are just looking for a fight.

assuming my gender

I don’t know what group of “shitbags” you’re referring to but you sound like an angry old man.

For you maybe, for me that’s fighting words.

Then you are the source of most of your frustration.

You think shit’s bad for you now?

I didnt say anything about anything.

If you’re brave enough come to my sub and reply to what I’m about to post.

Lol okay tough guy.

Chillout this is a meme thread. No one is talking shit about Boomers, Gen X, Millenials or Zoomers. It’s a comically inoffensive meme.

It’s a joke

I have a media server that I use and if I’m going to watch something I think that’s the only way to go. With things being the way they are though I’m starting to think that we should just return to books. The “content” industry is just a gambit to extract money from people while turning their brains off.

Okay boomer

Is the package manager as extensive as arch? Does it have an AUR equivalent? I’ve been wanting to try Nix or GUIX for a while.

Someone needs to make a browser extension that hides any article with “experts say” in the title

To be clear I wouldn’t give them my money even if they did offer all the same features.

it just freeloads

I watch a number of creators that YT has demonetized so I’m not worried about it.

YT can clearly see what people want in these apps. They simply need to provide the exact same functionality and set a price. They won’t though because they want control and data as well.

Youtube Premium offers a fraction of the benefits of something like Newpipe.

I agree. I refuse to watch ads or to pay for an experience that offers less than a fraction of what Newpipe offers. When Newpipe is no longer viable I’ll repurpose that time to chipping away at my reading list.

Getting a split keyboard is the biggest ergonomic improvement I’ve made.