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tabular, 7 hours ago

MIT may attract more people… but why would that be people who would contribute back in the direct you want? I’ve seen many MIT extentions for Godot, maybe they would have some insight.

Most indie devs make their MIT Godot games proprietary and I doubt peer pressure has ever stopped companies from taking MIT work and making it proprietary before. If software freedom of your users is important then the copyleft aspect is an important way to protect their freedom. Imo, not worth losing that on the off-chance it all goes well.

tabular, 1 day ago

That wasn’t the “sudo”, MS just named something else “sudo”.

tabular, 1 day ago

I despise this use of mod power in response to a protest. It’s our content to be sabotaged if we want - if Stack Overlords disagree then to hell with them.

I’ll add Stack Overflow to my personal ban list, just below Reddit.

tabular, 31 minutes ago

you’ve implicitly agreed to it when creating your account

Many people would agree with that, probably most laws do. However I doubt many users have actually bothered to read the unnecessarily long document, fewer have understood the legalese, and the terms have likely already been changed pray I don’t alter it any further. That’s a low and shady bar of consent. It indeed sucks and I think people should leave those platforms, but I’m also open to laws that would invalidate that part of the EULA.

tabular, 2 days ago

In my experience it being easy to just switch back to Windows wasn’t always a good thing. When there was an issue or I had something new to learn sometimes I would just take the easier option of switching out the Linux drive for the Windows one, even though I really wanted to stop using Windows.

Not saying OP should go cold turkey, but something perhaps worth considering at some point.

tabular, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

The fact less people of that group actually wear it than do is significant when you want an average sample. When categorizing a collection of images then, naturally, the traditional garments of a group is associated more with that group than any other group: 1/6 is bigger than any other race.

tabular, 4 days ago

If I own the car then either those are all my cells or someone else has abandoned their property in my car.

tabular, 4 days ago

Pay to disable a battery lifetime saver mode??

tabular, 4 days ago

“Software-locked” is a weird way to say you need to install Linux to get it all working properly.

tabular, 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago)

You don’t have to buy the car.

If it’s a profitable decision then it has the potential to become the de facto standard, so simply not buying it isn’t enough.

The manufacturer using software to lock use of hardware in people’s own cars is an attack on ownership rights.

tabular, 3 days ago

If manufacturers made parts available for longer (or perhaps at all in some cases?) then 2nd-hand cars already make for a cheaper option.

I believe artificially limiting hardware is an unacceptable for a health society because proprietary software gives the developer power over their users. Even people with good intentions will be tempted to use that power at the user’s expense. A software update could suddenly make that 20 mil commute no longer possible unless you agree to pay more for some subscription, or accept a new terms of service where you agree to forced arbitration if you don’t want to lose access to even using your vehicle.

tabular, 3 days ago

Perhaps typical people can more easily understand how a physical device might work. People probably understand gears and electricity more so than “software” (never even heard of source code or binaries).

tabular, 3 days ago

Is the artifical segmentation pricing structure possible without lockout software? Software has wide applications but in the end this is about freedom.

I would like an EV but I want an old dumb car converted as I don’t want the modern car computing systems (unless there’s one that runs a free OS).

tabular, 3 days ago

I know jailbreak refers more to rooting Apple phones but I think it’s a better term than root as it points out you’re not in control of your own hardware. You “break out of jail” to gain (software) freedom.

tabular, 5 days ago

Multiple streaming services existing isn’t the issue - content exclusivity to certain platforms makes it so. If content was on all platforms then it would just be a choice based on price and service features.

tabular, 7 days ago

Dropball

tabular, 8 days ago

TileMap layers being separate nodes sounds potentially easier to access each layer, rather than the drop downs.

tabular, 11 days ago

But they wanted to avoid being stupid. We need intelligent design (no not that intelligent design, actual intelligence).

tabular, 12 days ago

Nicely done.

tabular, 16 days ago

You don’t choose your childhood education. Microsoft and Apple offer schools deals to create adults dependent on it - after all they’ll be using it in work too.

tabular, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

Hardcopy images in a book are a bit different from the typical proprietary software doing who knows what on your personal computer. Not saying ads should be illegal but I would argue for software freedom where you can remove ads from any software running on your computer - like you can rip pages out of any of your books.

tabular, 15 days ago

This greatly affects the likelyhood of people choosing a particular OS later in life.

tabular, 14 days ago (edited 13 days ago)

Having control over other people’s computing gives you power over them: you can gain from their detriment. It’s not like everyone is uncaring or greedy but even people with good intentions do not have infinite willpower to resist temptation. When the user doesn’t like a change from an update their choice is usually to put up with it. Defending ads in a menu or opt-outs that should be opt-ins in hidden menus is less mental work than learning what an operating system is and that you can use a different one.

By sharing the source code instead you give up that power - if you fail to be good to the users then other devs can work on it without you.

tabular, 16 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

A universal basic income would better permit developers to choose to create collaborative software, rather than proprietary.

Move on or keep using it is the normal choice when proprietary software changes in a way you don’t like. Trying to make money is fine but that doesn’t make choices immune to criticism. If you value your software freedom then one aught to criticize the creation of proprietary software, even if you never used it.

tabular, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago)

The issue causing offence and collecting unuseful feedback is surely an issue in every project. Is there sometime unique or prominent when it’s open source software?

We can judge opinions to the degree they appear to accurately represent reality or achieve a goal. I can understand wanting to monopolize your work (without money survival is difficult) but if we agree to the goal of human flourishing then we can same some opinions are better than others.