This same brainworm :brainworms: is what makes people point at Mac users and say they're being taken advantage of because "all of the paid apps" vs Linux.
Most of the apps I've purchased -- which are incredibly high quality, and get updates to support every new MacOS release -- are developed by independent developers. These are regular people who love what they do, made something useful, and supporting the software supports them and their families. I rarely have to buy something that comes from a giant global mega corp.
Is that evil because it's not open source?
When was the last time you gave $100 to another open source developer? Ever?
@feld I'm especially annoyed because Thom has run osnews for decades now complaining about the evils of surveillance capitalism and then when he gets the exact product he wanted he says it's too expensive because of his job.
The FOSS community has no circular economy so it will continue to be overpopulated by poor developers who constantly bemoan their living conditions and beg for donations on Patreon and GoFundMe
@grillchen@feld I've seen a few Foss apps get some good money by just putting their software on the stores, too, in the same version that you can get for free.
There's a lot of great software out there. Open source and Linux/BSD is in my blood. But sometimes people deserve to be paid.
Here's an example from the other day. A friend was looking for video capture software on Mac. Kept having troubles with all the typical open source tools. Well here's one that works great. It's ~$30.
Is it really that insane to give this guy $30 for making a tool that saves you a ton of time and works reliably? That would hours of time debugging why the hell ffmpeg is being buggy and nobody's fixed it for years? If you even have the expertise to figure that out? That's highly optimized for your OS/hardware and even tightly integrates with MacOS-specific features?
Also a good chunk of people in the FOSS community genuinely believe that stuff should be free as in beer, lmao. As I said, if the FOSS community was like the Apple community, FOSS would be actually competitive.
@mischievoustomato@feld@grillchen@lain I absolutely miss boxed Linux distros that weren't just the same compiled binaries, actual in house developed apps and embellishments added.
@lain >I wish Google would just focus their search efforts on making a good search engine, sprinkled with some ads in the sidebar or occasionally interspersed inside the results, clearly marked.
"I want small ads that I can easily ignore and never click on to pay for massive software engineering projects, this shouldn't be too hard, right?"
> Chrome is an advertising delivery platform first and foremost, and anyone with even a hint of foresight and a disdain for ads should’ve switched to Firefox years ago. At this point, using Chrome is self-inflicted.
> EME is the first crack in the wall that protected browsers from those who would thwart adversarial operability and take “how about nah?” off the table, leaving us with the kind of take-it-or-leave-it Web that the marketing industry has been striving for since the first pop-up ad.
> As for adblocking in and of itself – I never had much of a problem with it, despite OSNews running (a very limited set of) ads. In the end, your computer is your own, and you, and only you, get to decide what gets stored in your RAM or what gets displayed on your screen. If you do not want ads on your computer, then you have the right to block them client-side.
> I, too, use ad blockers on all my browsers and devices – and I can safely say that if ad blockers didn’t exist, I’d be spending a lot less time reading websites online. Note that this study was performed by Mozilla employees.
I could keep going...
So... Other, dumber people should watch ads and make his services free. Not him though.
I just wish I could use fedora and that there would be much more packagers packaging shit on it so I wouldn't have to use flatpak or nixos (brain currently too small for it)
@lain "it sure sucks googles results are bad but I'm not going to mention the reason they suck is the massive amounts of censorship" lol did a bugman write this?