godsammitdam

@ godsammitdam @lemmy.zip

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20h ago

f-droid has my condolences
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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 20h ago
Still ignoring the question my conservative dude

1d ago

f-droid has my condolences

You ran away from every argument when I thoroughly trounced you with actual knowledge while you kept moving goalposts. Anyone can check either of our histories to see it. I can't honestly tell if you're juat ignorant or a honest to god lolcow.

Case in point, you've STILL not answered my question that if FOSS is commie garbage that you hate, why are you avidly using, even moderating a community, on a FOSS platform?

It's like US conservatives that do nothing but complain about American progress ("it's too woke, people living authentically and stuff that has nothing to do with me, wah") and tell others to leave. If you have nothing but complaints, why don't you just leave? You'd be much happier, you could enjoy Windows and Android to your hearts content, blissfully unaware.

2d ago

The land before time

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 2d ago

Is the business model not attempting to offer a lower cost product by having less employees and having the customer do more labor and use their time? On a macro level, those were jobs, people's livelihoods. Now they're self checkout areas with cameras, soon to be AI. On an economic level, to make more money, does it not make sense to continually increase the price while providing a "lesser" (read as, lower employee time to sale) product/service?

Is that a good thing? It's an honest question. What is the logical endpoint if consumers aren't able to consume given that less and less work (aka trading your time/labor for currency) is available?

As the saying goes, time is money. And that's part of the poverty trap. Sure, it's cheaper to spend more of your time. But when you're already poor, you need that time because it's better spent working to survive. Paradoxically, the more money you have, the more time you have to spend planning, assembling, driving, etc to save money.

The paradox of plenty.

2d ago

The land before time

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 2d ago

You're missing the entire concept of what shadow work is. And why it's being pushed further and further.

I use ikea myself. I DIY'd my grid tied solar system, battery and all. I've no problem performing the labor. That's not the point here.

2d ago

The land before time

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 2d ago

You're missing the entire concept of what shadow work is. And why it's being pushed further and further.

I use ikea myself. I DIY'd my grid tied solar system, battery and all. I've no problem performing the labor. That's not the point here.

3d ago

f-droid has my condolences

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Potentially, yeah. I saw he mentioned contributing to Osm and complained about all the rules they had to contribute. (Ironic considering he came at me trying to say FOSS and F-Droid projects are entirely unsafe and uncurated lol.) But seems like he's at least technically literate enough to mess around.

I wonder if there's a masochistic streak in there too. Looking through the profile he constantly posts and replies and gets trounced but still keeps coming back for more. Even weirder is the linuxsucks community he maintains is essentially just him. Making/posting memes, shitting on Linux and promoting windows with next to no comments or engagement...just downvotes. Yelling angrily into the void almost.

He seems to have particular hardons for:

Anything Linux (obviously)
F-Droid as an alternative
Anything FOSS
Communism - anything that doesn't have a profit motive or is about organizing/community effort gets classified as "commie garbage" or people who are "lazy commies" and don't want to work

Very capitalist, very conservative, he may be older, possibly if in the US he may be a Reagan republican if not an outright MAGAt. Which may have been his inspiration for his pejorative of LiGNUt. Which I assume is Linux + GNU + nut?

I really wonder how FOSS hurt him so. It's quite the grudge regardless of the circumstances. Or maybe a hyperfixation? Dunno 🤷‍♂️

3d ago

f-droid has my condolences

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

I mentioned it in another post, but arguably the worst part of all of this is not that he's failing at arguing against FOSS (which he is failing spectacularly), but what he's actually trying to do is discredit the devs and their passion and effort that build all the cool, fun, and interesting solutions we have.

Standard capitalist bootlicker mentality though, steal ideas, repackage them as new products with a pricetag, a subscription, maybe an expansion, dlc, or microtransaction too. The only innovation they're good at is providing a worse product for more money.

3d ago

f-droid has my condolences

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

If I say it it's true, if you say it it's propaganda.

Same mentality.

3d ago

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

I'm sorry free speech is happening to you.

3d ago

Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it - doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Notice you've completely abandoned the web serving argument. Can't defend it so you've moved on. We'll add that to the list, another goalpost flying by at mach speed. Wonder if they'll add it to Forza?

Show me a AAA FOSS game

AAA FOSS games is a deliberately narrow target designed to sound convincing. The gaming industry's core infrastructure is heavily FOSS. The Linux kernel that Steam Deck runs on. Mesa graphics drivers. Vulkan. SDL. OpenAL. The entire graphics stack underneath every game including your precious AAA titles runs on "commie garbage." It's not whether the marketing budget and cutscenes of a AAA title are open source. It's whether the industry could function without FOSS infrastructure. It couldn't.

Even the FOSS games that come close had their engines donated

Once again, you do half the work for me. If FOSS is garbage why do commercial studios donate their engines to it? id Software open sourced Quake's engine. Epic contributes to open standards. Donations flow toward FOSS precisely because the commercial ecosystem benefits from shared infrastructure. You've just described companies recognizing the value of what you call "garbage."

Professional production software like Adobe, Office, CAD - The industry runs on proprietary

Adobe and Office dominate through network effects and proprietary lock-in, not purely technical superiority. Quality? That's just an argument for switching costs. LibreOffice handles the vast majority of office tasks. DaVinci Resolve has a free tier that professional editors use for Oscar-nominated titles. The tools exist. The dominance is structural, not meritocratic. Capitalists do love to believe in their myths.

Blender is probably the best thing you have, and it was practically donated too.

Blender is your worst example. Blender is in active production use at major studios, such as in Spider-Man: No Way Home, and is maintained by a foundation funded by Epic, Adobe, and Meta who pay for its development because building proprietary alternatives costs more. "Practically donated" is you accidentally describing why FOSS works. Companies fund it because the output is worth more than the cost of maintaining it. You make this SO easy.

You keep moving to new ground every time the current ground collapses. ECC. Abandonment. Web serving. Now games and Adobe. How many more before you answer the question of why you hate "FOSS commie garbage" so much but continue to avidly use and moderate on it?

3d ago

f-droid has my condolences

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Woosh is right! Anybody catch the license plate of those goalposts flying by? You said ads keep prices down. That's what I responded to. Now it's about abandonment incentives. Goalposts moving faster than the speed limit.

But since you've moved there: ad revenue doesn't prevent abandonment, it makes abandonment contingent on ad market profitability instead of user need. Google Reader, Google Stadia, Flash, Vine, the entire Google graveyard. All ad-supported or commercially incentivized. All dead. Users abandoned.

When a FOSS project gets abandoned the code stays available. Anyone can fork it, maintain it, or build on it because the license allows it. Ressurection is possible and happens all the time. When a proprietary project dies it just dies and takes your data with it. The abandonment argument actually favors FOSS structurally.

Once again, proving that technical illiteracy of yours across all your comments. You're doing half the work for me! It's easy when you use common capitalist cuck tactics like moving goalposts and just stating easily verifiable facts so confidently incorrectly.

3d ago

Valve releases drivers, notes to make Windows work on Steam hardware, but refuses to support it - doesn’t offer support for ‘Windows on Steam Hardware,’ gaming company provides resources ‘as is’

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Oohh, it's fun when technicially illiterate people think they're smart.

You just answered your own question and didn't notice.

Web serving is one of the simplest jobs a computer can have. -Why wouldn't they choose the cheapest option?

You're right! The cheapest option is Linux. The reason Linux is cheap, reliable, and dominant across web infrastructure, cloud computing, and enterprise servers is because of the FOSS ecosystem you called "commie garbage." The Linux kernel, Apache, Nginx, OpenSSL, and basically every critical piece of web serving infrastructure are all FOSS projects maintained by the exact community you're attempting to insult.

You're using the output of FOSS to argue against FOSS. Every website you visit, every web service you use, the Lemmy instance you moderate your Linux-hating community on, all of it runs on "commie garbage."

The most disgusting part of it to me is not that you're failing to argue against FOSS. You're attempting to remove credit from the passionate and driven devs who built the infrastructure we use today. That's despicable, and entirely on brand for capitalist bootlickers. Capitalism builds nothing and simply repurposes and repackages the passion and labor of others by adding a new pricetag, subscription, or storefront. Maybe some DLC or microtransactions if we're feeling really greedy.

3d ago

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Wait, wait, you believe ads lowers the cost of products? In this day and age?

Are you still waiting for that wealth to trickle down too?

3d ago

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godsammitdam @lemmy.zip 3d ago

Oh hey, it's the owner of the linuxsucks .world community who says he hates "FOSS commie garbage" while not only using, but moderating a community on a FOSS platform.

F-Droid was a huge problem for security. I hate Google more than anyone, but they're totally right to make side-loading more difficult

Does F-Droid have some security tradeoffs in its operation? Absolutely. But you're conflating a security decision with a market control decision. The restrictions target alternative app stores and payment systems that compete with Google Play, not specifically malware vectors. Google has a $300 billion advertising business and a vested interest in controlling what software reaches Android users. Using security as the justification for that control doesn't make the control itself a security measure. This is the same playbook being used to push surveillance. The goal is monitoring and data gathering while it's proclaimed to "protect children." It's using a moral panic while being used while the technical literacy is severely lacking. Something you're familiar with in our other thread, I'm sure.

It offers no curation

Plainly false. F-Droid requires apps to be open source and explicitly flags known anti-features like tracking, ads, and non-free dependencies. Just because you prefer ads doesn't mean its not curation.

The Play Store version of software is often better (sometimes they do add ads, but I'd rather have ads and support a dev along with peace of mind)

Sometimes true and sometimes the opposite. Play Store versions of apps frequently include tracking SDKs, mandatory account creation, and analytics outside of simply just "ads" that F-Droid versions specifically strip out. For anyone using F-Droid because they're trying to avoid exactly that (for peace of mind), the Play Store version isn't better, it's the opposite.

Google charging a gate fee from developers to reach Android users and then restricting alternatives to that gate is literally the opposite of supporting a dev.

And to highlight the irony of "better," if this was a security issue, as you claimed, is that a defensible position when Google's data shows they removed over 2.3 million policy-violating apps in 2024 alone, and that's just what they caught? Researchers have repeatedly found active malware campaigns running in the Play Store for months before removal, including banking trojans and spyware with millions of downloads. The stuff that slips through aren't just one or two here and there. It's a constant trough on the platform you're implying is the best place to get software.

The difference is F-Droid requires apps to be open source, meaning the code is auditable. Malware hiding in open source code is significantly harder to sustain because anyone can read it. Play Store apps are closed source by default, meaning Google's automated scanning is the only defense for users and whatever a developer decided to bundle in. Sounds more like a way to silence criticism and remove transparency than it is to "ensure security."