The thing that annoys me is that one of the big strengths of open source is that anyone can help make it better, which SHOULD allow it to be a legitimate alternative provided it’s popular enough.
But for some reason both maintainers and users/contributors tend to find it really fucking difficult to be sensible about things, with users/contributors being needlessly rude (among other problems) and maintainers not giving a shit about the quality of their projects.

Like… it’s totally understandable and okay for projects to be flawed since the people making it are mere mortal humans, but we should neither be responding to this with “ugh write better code you lazy scrub!” nor “fuck you i write this for free you don’t get to demand anything”.
We should respond to it with “hey {xyz} could use some improvement” and “hm yeah that’s true, i can’t be arsed to implement it but anyone who wants to open a PR will carry the favour of the heavens”.
It’s not rocket science.

on ice?

i’m very curious how you imagine streaming being killed, are people gonna go back to laserdisc?..

it genuinely makes me a bit angry that y’all never mention lineage, why are you ignoring by far the most normalized and usable android distribution??

protecting me from using my fucking browser, most of the time

and through the magic of buying two of them, you can have two of them

except if they don’t include the multiplayer then why the fuck does it cost 80 bucks?

i don’t think labelling is the reason because plenty of medicine packaging just has fold-outs with information on it. It’s actually something i find really neat.

they had the fucking galaxy-brained realization that they can just play both sides rather than telling half their userbase that they’re wrong for not wanting AI features.

This is what capitalism has come to, companies being successful because they decide to not stab themselves in the gut.

Despite not actually playing it myself, i’d say Unciv just because it actually straight up reimplements civlization and is super moddable, it’s really well done (aside from the acceptable graphics, but hey that’s “”“easily”“” fixable by some future helpful artist)

never heard anyone use whatsapp in sweden, everyone is expected to use something that supports sms as a fallback. Usually facebook messenger or whatever the iphone thing is called.

Far as i know the only popular truly separate platform would be something like snapchat or kik or whatever, which is used by teenagers.

nature’s own 8766-hour energy

and this is why i make sure any phone i buy is supported by a reputable project like lineageos.

what? are you being pedantic because it’s actually “su”?

this is like complaining about tractors being outdated and clunky, buddy you’re not the target audience

because a fucking depressing amount of computers are still running old windows versions for compatibility reasons, and it would be really nice if we could eventually replace it with something that isn’t a leaking sieve in terms of security.

lobotimizing operating systems

i mean, you’ll be able to write things in that language, which i’d say is somewhat useful 🤔

It’s kinda like asking “is it worth doing long hikes before training to do 5km runs?”, you probably don’t need to go on hikes in order to start running, but it’s less intimidating and if you then realize you’re just not into running then you’re still left with a useful skill.

as a non-american stuff like lunchables fucking baffles me, just give the kids some clementines?