Is it though? Like who was promised anything for doing open source software development. It’s like volunteering at the soup kitchen. Yeah you’re not going to get paid and people are going to eat and leave. That’s kind of the point.

Skill issue. /troll don’t take the bait

Generational wars doesn’t do anyone any favors.

I remember being young and making bad political decisions. If my generation got to do that why not gen alpha? I hope the legacy my generation leaves behind helps gen alpha elect the leaders that they want without being fooled by the lies.

I still think a good chunk of the code will be visible. You can have all the code up to the point where you call the proprietary function. Obviously you won’t get to see what’s inside that function but you can guess. Also, a lot of proprietary libraries have that functionality really well documented.

I don’t get the “take off your shoes” part. Is this a meme I have missed?

So the quality is worth the price of not owning the work you do?

I guess everyone has to make their own call…

A broken clock is right twice a day?

It has its usages. Unfortunately, the market pressures are going to require companies to use them in a way to make investors happy. The average Joe is probably going to have a bad time.

This! You can never “win” or get the last word, but you can get the other person to show how bad their arguments are. You just have to trust that others will decide on what is right correctly.

Maybe try a more formal debate setting? I know there are some places like “the crucible” that facilitate that.

I doubt you will find anything on Lemmy unless you start up a highly moderated community. Even then, people can bring questions against the moderators.

Discussion and debate are pretty lawless in nature.

I wonder if we will get to a point where capacitor batteries will be too good.

Can you image a small issue leading to an entire instantaneous energy dump of a large capacity capacitor while on an airplane?

Make me wonder if we will limit how fast a capacitor can discharge in some consumer goods.

I sway back and forth. I’ll get into a heavy debate about something. It just burns me right up. I need to chill afterwards for a week or so.

I don’t know. Not everyone who uses a computer should be an expert. Not everyone is 100% alert all the time. I know there has to be a line somewhere.

I feel like it would be really easy to have the OS check if the exe is appended to some other extension and force the user to rename it before allowing it to be executed.

Yes, any file that is marked as executable can be “run”. 9 times out of 10 the user has to do this explicitly.

I am sorry others didn’t hear you. I saw your edit and I think it makes sense. I hope you feel better soon. Emotions are a wild ride. I know from experience.

I don’t think you are causing any problems by not posting a small description of the project.

Sounds like you just don’t want to, why not just say that?

These people are a critical part of the computer ecosystem. Without them, no one would use any settings other than the default. We may not have yet discovered the dark theme.

Good meme.

Didn’t they change license at some point, so it’s no longer open source?

If they do it right, you won’t even notice or feel like you have no choice to buy something.

They want to know you better than you know yourself. I doubt they would be interested in any information you would provide because it would be useless compared to what they can get.

Most of the phyc research is done by large companies to crack all our brains open so we open our wallets.

You’re probably depressed because that is what they want you to be. So you maximize screen time for adds and purchases.