If Open Source is so great...

Libreoffice is slightly worse because all the proprietary office suites keep lowering the bar for everyone to follow them. It's not a quality issue, it's a never ending contest to figure out how to complicate writing a simple letter so that everyone has to buy only your software.

LibreOffice is more than slightly worse, but FOSS projects cover the gamut. The thing about them is that the best ones are usually laser focused on exactly what the user needs, rather than what makes the most money.

I genuinely doesn't know there's paid media player out there, VLC came preinstall on all my prebuild PC purchase since forever.

PSA: Inkscape is good now!

For LibreOffice, I'd go with, worse and better at the same time.

• I have just noticed, overtime, that it has some problems in some cases, where MS Office does better, while there are certain cases where it does better.

There are 2 major pain points though:

1. Calc UI stutters when using the scrollbar with mouse click and drag.
2. Adding images to files makes the whole thing way slower than acceptable.

I haven't used it for a few months though, so something might have changed. But the second issue specifically is a long time one.

On the other hand, the formula usages are much better in Calc. Also, the documents don't get wonky between versions as much as MS Office

If you like professional photography, you can try darktables. It's a replacement for Lightroom and it's great in my opinion.

Gimp is still useful for quick and simple edits. It's a bit weird to use though.

365 is far worse IMO. New web only apps (replacing all the desktop apps) are a big step backwards. LibreOffice does everything needed natively and a lot more.

Krita isn't that much worse than Photoshop/CSP for digital illustration. That said, going back to CSP after a year was such a relief I didn't know I needed. So many little stumbling blocks removed.

I wonder how many paid apps were utterly decimated after they released VLC

To quote a non-computer savvy friend from a few years ago. When he was talking to someone else, I just over heard the conversation.

Na, I use VLC player. It always works, it will play a slice of cucumber.

We got gpl3

Because it's so good that a v2 is not needed.

If you like open source THAT much, why don't you marry it??

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All those Silicon Valley brogrammers would have “OpS2 evangelist” in their bio.

wojak is a beautiful woman

It was on Lemmy World's All[0] less than 10 days ago.

[0] https://lemmy.world/post/21902350

There are definitely a lot of brilliant engineers working at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Apple, they just get hamstrung by management.

I can only speak for myself, but I used to love to get home from work and contribute to free software projects I found interesting. Since I got a good paying tech job at a big company, the last thing I want to do is more of the same when I get home. (having kids around the same time probably had an influence too).

That's the point

Honestly, it's such a compelling point to made for why capitalism is a shit economic system. Regardless of if someone is compelled by communist/anarchist economics, at the very least it should be obvious that capitalism produces only the most profitable products, not the best products.

For real open source projects, it's a lot of the time not nerds working for free.

All your favorite frameworks and libraries are often developed in house at big companies (angular, react, vue, tensorflow, Kafka, pytorch, k8s, Jenkins, and many many more).

And even then, much of the development on them is done by people who are getting paid to use the frameworks at smaller companies.

There are tons of examples the other way too of course, but even the Linux kernel is mostly corporate commits, Google, Huawei, Oracle, and others.

This isn't inherently bad, but it's not as cut and dry as people make it out to be.

I want to add, that language development is also often done by companies. Today for example is a Mozilla thing, and while a non profit, the devs aren't working for free.

Technically, MacOS doesn't cost money to use and has no ads.

I’ve been thinking about this often lately as well. These fucking corporations with multiple billions at their disposal, and all they can produce is shit like Windows or macOS? AND it also costs money to use? AND it has ads in it?

Not only do I agree with you, I also want to point out the telemetry whackamole for those who care. (And those who don't care aren't going to bother with the whackamole, but their privacy is being violated just the same as those who do care.)

Lol, since the last major update I can't type a tilde or a backtick, presumably because it doesn't recognize my keyboard type?? And I had to install another program that prevent Apple Music from opening each time I connect/disconnect bluetooth headphones?? Or to add week numbers to the calendar widget. Even Gnome isn't that bad.

I got a job and was not allowed to use a linux laptop, so I went with mac.

Same. 2015. I could have pushed them to let me use Linux, but it would have been making waves in a remote shop. The 2015 MacBook hardware was decent, so I got it. Domain binding was still in fashion. 99 problems. Finally, I got it okay-ish, set up Brew, it's a hack. I started trying to use the terminal to do things, almost no config available, the disk mount subsystem was alien, the logs were crap. Since then, the hardware and compatibility has just gotten awful.

SEX

Now that I have your attention...

My first thought as well

I'm not a god damn communist Fred! How many times do I have to tell you, I'm an anarchist!

Voyager is indeed a really good app for Lemmy. It is based on Apollo app which was the best, and IMO, the only sensible way to browse Reddit on iOS.

I am glad @aeharding@vger.social had a working version ready merely days after the new TOS came into effect.

I have been using it since it was called Wefwef (which I still feel was a better name, more playful), and I liked it so much that I use it on my Android phone as well as my iOS daily driver.

Not sure it's grey, it's great when big corporate give back, just ot when they take over and pervert the ideals of open source to their breaking point.

Boost went open-source?

to be fair, most of those Chinese scammers probably need the money more. Most of them are in effect slaves and convincing westerners to give them money allows their handlers not to kill them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPpl2ISKTg

Sometimes not mutually exclusive. Its not common but it does happen. Iphone rocked the industry. Photoshop dare I say it, was the standard. At least at first.

Sometimes, the developers also being the users helps, as in your example. Sometimes, it's a hindrance, where the developer will just create UI that makes sense to them, but not to others.

Or Blender

Vlc is basically what it is because of ffmpeg and the likes, which are... Corporate supported :p
That said ffmpeg didnt start that way, but at one point it was and vlc quickly jumped into popularity because of it and it quickly supporting new formats ( like mkv back in 2003/2004 ).
Youre not wrong, but its more complex than that xD

There are a few examples where the foss version of the app became the best one. I am having trouble remembering others. But I think BitWarden is just as good as any paid password manager.

mpv can beat it but that's also FOSS

You're not wrong. I use it a lot. it's super for short local trips and maybe medium trips.

When I asked it to go a few states over, routing cost me a couple of hours last time before I realized something was off.

Use it, but scrutinize it.

The only reason I use Google Maps is I use an old ass phone with limited storage space, and it won't let me remove Google Maps.

I use it on my daily basis. Never disappointed me in about 2 years now. So yeah, great app. (Sometimes I use waze too to avoid you know :)

What's funny to me is, the agile approach seems like it's a much better fit for open-source, non-commercial software development.

The corporate world and is management practices based around quarters and deadlines can't seem to see how anything could get done without deadlines, but that's usually less of a factor with open-source. People laugh at "scrum masters" because in a corporate environment, all the scrum stuff tends to be mostly performative. But it seems to me that open-source projects with multiple contributors already kind of work in an agile manner.

I made an account here without an email address (I done that on reddit too but you can't anymore)

I can use various websites to view deleted reddit comments

I would never consider anything that I have let leave my device as "deleted" anyway

If you expect privacy on social media you should take an iq test

1. You can delete and edit comments on lemmy. But that doesn't mean all severs or users will honour that request. Same is true for reddit, hence why it is possible to see deleted reddit comments on 3rd party websites. (And deleted tweets, etc. on other sites.)
2. People post on lemmy for the purpose of sharing thoughts and ideas with the world. If your stuff is private: don't post it! This is true for all social media. Also note, lemmy doesn't ask for your phone number or other unrelated personal information.

Interesting. I didn't know that about deleting comments. The web client on my instance has a delete button, but is there some kind of issue with that change not necessarily propagating to other instances?

It doesn't bother me much personally since you never really can be sure that you deleted something from the internet. Even if reddit deletes a comment, you can possibly find it on an archive somewhere. Anything you toss onto the web should be something you're comfortable with the world knowing.

At least you can do that on reddit.

You literally can't. People have deleted their whole comment histories and have them restored by reddit admins.

Virtually anything you post on the internet is eternal. A better example would be your upvotes as they are also synchronized according to instance admins - something many people do not expect.

you are thinking of SaaS not Free Software.

Name paid commercial software to replace grep

So open source is superior then, as it promotes fitness and climate friendlyness?

So this is why FOSS software is often faster, no traffic jams.

I like to tell people "have fun staying poor" when they don't use open source money.

Brain dead comment.