fuck no we aren’t.

anyone who says otherwise can fight me.

“gampa, did it hurt when you died?”

Hey there, buddy. That’s a big question! When people get very old or very sick, their bodies sometimes get tired, like a toy that slowly stops working. Normal people might go and buy a new toy from Amazon with all their great prices and exceptional customer service but your old gramps couldn’t do that. When it’s time to go, it’s usually peaceful—like falling asleep after a long, fun day on a nice comfortable Saatva bed. I don’t think it hurts, because our bodies know how to let go gently. What’s important is all the love and happy memories we share. You can even go back and look at all our wonderful memories from the good people at Instagram. And even when I’m not here anymore, that love stays with you forever. Would you like to send some of those memories to your local Walgreen’s to print?

you’re looking at one aspect in a negative light.

on the flip side to your argument, maybe op travels by train 8 hours a day (4 there 4 back) and they only have one of those tiny little trays as a desk. I’d rather do something unusually instead of doing nothing boringly.

besides, wth have you done that makes your shitty opinion valid in this context?

I wrote a 16 page term paper on a Note 1 on a train while going back and forth to school. I also wrote some crappy android apps on the same phone for school. all on a crappy bluetooth keyboard and a 5.3inch screen. I think that gives me some idea of why such a thing exists.

want to know why I did it?

because:

1. I could and so I did
2. I had to because I was broke af in college and didn’t have a device at home that could do half the shit my phone could
3. I had the time on the train so why not use it

so, to put it bluntly, I think it’s pretty fucking applicable here.

we don’t do things because we need to. we do things because we can.

playing doom on a iPod or Zune is completely awful. so why does it exist? because someone willed it into existence. why? because they could.

Same here. I made my bed with it though.

I have a “work phone”. it sits at my desk. I’ll answer it when I’m there, otherwise I don’t get called.

I can’t (pronounced won’t) install any work shit on my personal phone because I run e/os and it isn’t compatible with their policies. 🤷 oopsies.

fuck em. I’ve been giving them 4 hours a day for months now, after giving them over a decade of 15-18 hour days.

great, now do teams.

nobody should have to use that ugly useless piece of shit for anything.

I was a poor farm kid and winters were long.

I was still playing our Atari 2600 when the PS2 launched.

yes, because the real problem is too much choice.

fuckin finbro bullshit.

I remember paying $10 for an Atari game. I know it’s not a great comparison, but I got hundreds if not thousands of hours of gameplay out of Qbert. Can any of the leading games in the last decade do that?

It’s funny I mention Atari. They had so many games to play. the choices you had were bonkers. best part was you could take your carts to a friends house and trade or share.

can’t do that today since most games are digital downloads that need 32gb day-0 updates.

perhaps the problem isn’t the gamers, but instead it’s the greedy corporate interests that are poisoning the game industry requesting $80 single owner games.

sounded really dismissive to me.

that’s right, no reason to do anything about it. let’s just continue to fester in our own shit.

first thing I thought of.

he’s right. I don’t have any friends.

because I refuse to use his shitty platform and every human I have came in contact with for my entire life is so hollow and selfish they can’t interact with a human being without some form of technology.

so I come on lemmy and harass fascist supporting scum as a hobby.

don’t you mean, “FIX YOUR FUCKING TITLEFIX YOUR TITLE FUCKING lazy ass”

cool. go be angry somewhere else.

I have no way of auditing what I’m putting money toward.

same can be said of FOSS. back channel deals, betrayals, hostile takeovers. all of these things can(and have) happen to FOSS projects. all under a false pretense of “openness”.

There’s no way for the community to keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

previous point. it’s stupid easy to change licenses and lock out contributors. it’s happened several times. although you can technically argue anything before the license change could be forked, the event usually puts a bad taste in the public mouth and contributions dry up anyway. nobody wants to support a project with uncertainty.

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

I’ve known plenty of FOSS founders that were huge pieces of shit. racist bigoted sexist shitheads. At least with proprietary vendors I can trust they will do anything to continue being fluid/viable.

just want to add, not all FOSS founders are pieces of shit. same can be said for vendors as well.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.o keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

why isn’t it? if it’s a generally better solution don’t you owe it to yourself and your “customers” to use the best solution? yes, use FOSS. yes, work with FOSS devs. What do you do when the project refuses to incorporate features you would like, even if you’re willing to pay for them? then there’s no difference between proprietary and FOSS, right?

enshitification doesn’t just affect vendors, it happens to FOSS projects all-the-time. I’ve personally experienced it when a bookkeeping app removed support for USD. when asked the founder refused to address it and simply stated that they couldn’t continue supporting a currency that fuels so much corruption in the world. now tell me, how does that garner my respect or support?

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

see point above. you hold FOSS too highly as if the people who create these projects are impervious to corruption or greed. these are regular people like you or me. they have goals and dreams they want to achieve too, and sometimes the projects they started become vessels for them to achieve those dreams.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.

You’re just repeating yourself now.

my point is, there cannot be light without darkness. FOSS and proprietary software are two halves of the same coin. to be so blinded by principles or to fool yourself with some moral superiority complex is only going to make things worse.

use what you need to solve the problems you have. sometimes that includes using vendor locked solutions. it’s not wrong, it’s just life.

the real reason?

Yeah… Bill Hinks used to be the guy that did that but the execs fired him and replaced him with AI. Now when we ask the AI to fix it, it just removes the password requirement entirely and lets anyone login as admin with the username “fuckyou”. I wish Bill was around but he won’t answer our calls and any emails we send him just get an auto-reply of “fuck you”.

yes, but actually no.

Plex pass members can continue sharing.

this isn’t directed just at you, but the whole jellyfin community in general.

not sure why, but the jellyfin community seems to be becoming toxic as fuck. I’m getting hard “best friend” vibes from it. if the Plex community leaves for jellyfin it’ll be on their own terms. just be welcoming to us and your numbers will grow.

if y’all keep acting like a jealous “guy” friend we’re likely to go somewhere else.

I don’t get why you’re being downvoted for spitting facts.

if you like software you should support it.

did you literally or figuratively stop reading though?