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The fuck is this stupid ass meme format lol
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Now that I have your attention...
My first thought as well
Thats the point. People should realize that just because someone is doing some software as a hobby doesn't mean he doesn't need to earn money. YOU PEOPLE, IF YOU USE GREAT SOFTWARE PAY FOR IT PLEASE. Don't let great FOSS software die out, and donate. Just give those 20$, its not much for you (some shitty chineese gadgets), and its so much for devs if everyone do that. Wherever you want to buy some chineese gadget, donate it to actually great software instead of chineese scammer please.
to be fair, most of those Chinese scammers probably need the money more. Most of them are in effect slaves and convincing westerners to give them money allows their handlers not to kill them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg
Only until enshittification kicks in
OK who changed the wojak into a beautiful woman?
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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).
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??
Sometimes slightly worse. Like LibreOffice.
Sometimes actually better, like VLC.
Sometimes about the same, like the latest version of MuseScore (older versions were, in fact, quite a bit worse).
But sometimes, like with older versions of GIMP (I'll admit, I've not tried its latest major version release candidate) it's significantly worse.
Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It's not a quality issue, it's a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.
I actually find MS Word really clunky, laggy, buggy, and generally intuitive. LO I only find to be clunky
LibreOffice is more than slightly worse, but FOSS projects cover the gamut. The thing about them is that the best ones are usually laser focused on exactly what the user needs, rather than what makes the most money.
Krita isn't that much worse than Photoshop/CSP for digital illustration. That said, going back to CSP after a year was such a relief I didn't know I needed. So many little stumbling blocks removed.
I genuinely doesn't know there's paid media player out there, VLC came preinstall on all my prebuild PC purchase since forever.
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.
"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.
But when the open source app becomes the best one, it becomes impossible to beat it. Look VLC for example.
mpv can beat it but that's also FOSS
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.
If we're talking Lemmy and Lemmy clients, I'd argue it's a helluva lot better. For one, I can rotate my fucking screen
Hell, the thing that got my to switch was when they got rid of third party apps, because of how absolutely abysmally shitty the official app is
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.
I use it on my daily basis. Never disappointed me in about 2 years now. So yeah, great app. (Sometimes I use waze too to avoid you know :)
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.
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.
Slightly worse in design, far better in consumer-friendliness!
It's not, though. It's a big reason why I'm here, in fact. Boost for Android is awesome!
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.
Lemmy is Reddit with more furries and communists
I'm not a god damn communist Fred! How many times do I have to tell you, I'm an anarchist!
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.
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