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tabular, 4 days ago

Wait, a proprietary OS is someone else’s computer?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/94aaf3b3-b0de-422a-bce5-71bb12fde6dd.jpeg

tabular, 4 days ago

This personnel computer

tabular, 4 days ago

That’s what Mint is for, like removing Snap from Ubuntu.

tabular, 6 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

There are many motherboard manufactors but only 2 CPU manufacturers (for PC desktop). Board makers don’t “makes deals” so much as have the terms dictated to them. Even graphics card manufacturers made them their bitch back when multi-GPU was a thing - it was them who had to sell their Crossfire/SLL technology on their motherboards.

tabular, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

“We can’t open source Car Thing because we used someone else’s copyrighted code to make it and we we not allowed to do that, or we don’t want to follow the license” - Blemishify, probably.

tabular, 8 days ago

I can’t even understand what this means

I think that’s the intent, and they fucking nailed it.

tabular, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

Linux contains (edit) proprietary (/e) binary blobs. Not sure if that disqualifies it for being supreme of “open source projects” but if the question was about “free software projects” I am certain it would.

tabular, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

Even if Firefox were to win it’s still a bleak future because the ridiculously complexity and scope of browsers prevents new ones being made. Without the possibility of newcomers either the war never ends or there is one victor. We should start to abandon browsers in favor of apps that focus on each part of the browser (e.g. why does a browser need to render video to the screen when the user already has an app for that).

“Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory, and ending a battle to save an empire is no defeat.”- Kahless

tabular, 8 days ago

What’s the difference?

tabular, 8 days ago

Apps being created seperatly doesn’t mean they can’t interact with each other, so I don’t see those concerns as a problem. Is there anything fundamentally preventing the creation of new apps to do tasks currently exclusive to browsers?

Isn’t the possibility of single apps getting bought out an argument against having all your eggs in one basket? 🙃

tabular, 8 days ago (edited 7 days ago)

I don’t know what to say regarding your claim of no ad blocking in apps because I don’t understand why you think that. I disagree because it’s the same game just in different apps, depending on the medium:

• images then you could do what ad blockers fo now: block based on domain -video you still disregard other ad files, or have a sysyem like sponser block
• text (e.g.) on a Gemini client you’d need to detect the text that looks like ads.

tabular, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

I value software freedom so I don’t promote proprietary apps that prevent users doing their computing the way they want. There’s not much I can do about how companies mistreat their users. Just contribute to free (open source) software, advocate for a culture that values freedom over convenience, and advocate for laws against proprietary software.

tabular, 7 days ago

If the code of your app is like uBlock-Origin then you have the freedom to remove ads from your software. If an app dictates how you do your computing that’s a bigger issue than reckless feature creep leading to the end of browsers.

tabular, 9 days ago

It’s a chicken and egg problem. Both users and devs need to move at the same time, in reality that means bit by bit.

tabular, 10 days ago

“Add to Cart”, “Continue Shopping”, “Purchase for myself”, “Purchase as a gift”, “Purchase”.

Who knows, one day a court may find these terms could lead people into believing they’re buying a game and force some companies to allow us to to trade or resell them (an EU court most probably).

tabular, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

Software can be both a product and a service:

• it’s a product when running on my computer (i.e. the game)
• it’s a service when running on their computer (i.e. providing the hosting for downloading, multiplayer client-server hosting).

The issue preventing one practically enacting on software is that copyright defaults to preventing you redistributing it, and you need the source code to be able to modify (fully). Thankfully some games are free software/open source when you can act on your ownership.

tabular, 9 days ago

That would at least be more honest… from my perspective anyway. The games industry has done this for so long that this is the norm for generatations who grew up with consoles being online - this is “purchasing” to some as words have usages and not inate meaning.

It would be better if they just stopped doing that but you get more money that way.

tabular, 9 days ago

You can resell Windows CD keys legally in the EU as the courts rejected the “only for you” part of the argument: invalidating that part of the EULA. I probably have the right to resell my Steam game tickets.

tabular, 12 days ago

Bet the school and students will continue to use Word and risk future critical times with proprietary software they’re not in control of.

tabular, 13 days ago

What if look down into a reflective surface 🫣

tabular, 14 days ago

What sjw activites?

tabular, 15 days ago

Maybe they should, but focusing on adding new features endlessly is how we ended up with this state of internet browsers. The most complex app running on a desktop are too big, it’s basically impossible to create a new one. (Yes you can fork but that’s just adding toppings to ice cream). The browser war ends only one way.

If we break up the do-everything application into significant parts then a healthy “war” can exist. Why does a browser need to play video, you already have an app for that.

tabular, 15 days ago

I tried searching for this but couldn’t find it, thanks.

tabular, 15 days ago

It’s a reference to ⛳ Tiger Woods PGA tour 2004

tabular, 13 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

I doubt me giving suggestions is worth the effort here. I worry thoughts and beliefs could be manipulated with enough knowledge of the brain. Technology to interact with the brain directly is a revolution of the manipulation already enacted through our eyes and ears.