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this isn’t an image macro / meme template
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this isn’t how the humor of a meme template works. This is the same joke, worse. This is just stealing a joke.
My gender is my concern, but you may use any pronoun to refer to me
this isn’t an image macro / meme template
this isn’t how the humor of a meme template works. This is the same joke, worse. This is just stealing a joke.
This is a butchered rip off of an actual joke.
Same as everyone, to produce reports.
steal from work
Were I to reply I would merely be repeating what I said to @ava@beehaw.org
Every artist sacrifices other things so that they can do art. I get that we have less to sacrifice than we used to but in objective, absolute, historical terms, we are still sooooo fucking wealthy and have so many opportunities and resources at our disposal. And I say this as someone with a 13k annual income who contributes to FOSS projects.
That’s like saying they don’t have enough comfort and free time to do art. Actually, the statements are identical. We create not because we can but because we must.
That’s why I only ever use Seconds Since Epoch.
Ah, the golden age. I dunno, I was running FreeBSD. It was awesome. It still is.
If they wanted your money, it would have been released as shareware.
sophistry
I got into Linux because BSD didn’t have enough hardware support.
Those products that you “need” to function as professionals are never going to be available in a way that does not exploit you and put you at risk. You’re always going to be trapped with the incumbent marketplace’s shitty practices until you take steps to meet those needs in some other way.
You do not have to personally audit every application you use. After all, you DON’T audit closed applications, and neither does anyone else. At least with an application with code available under a public license, other people have the ability to review it and raise concerns. I can’t see how you can cast that as a disadvantage, just because you don’t personally want to audit the software yourself.
Personally, I’m not comfortable predicating my very livelihood on closed, commercial software that somebody else owns and leverages with the specific intention of exploiting me. That sounds like fucking madness to me.
There are in fact banking apps and home security apps on F-Droid.
Can you elaborate on “limited”? Surely that is what we want. One of the problems with the Play store is certainly not that it does not have a wide enough selection, but rather that it is full of harmful, hostile, dangerous, exploitive software. Any solution to that problem is necessarily going to limit (or one might prefer to say curate) its contents. That is exactly why I use F-Droid. It is limited to software that is not trying to hurt me.
In what ways do the existing alternatives fall short of compelling?
I love unix shops.