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Electricd

@ Electricd @lemmybefree.net

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  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • I have contacted some of them and what they said was often: GOG's tools suck, their support team suck…

    I don’t know how a company could fuck this up so I take it as is, and don’t fully trust it, but they haven’t improved their store in years

  • Upgrade to Windows today!

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  • Low prices end GOG ? Yea nah, not really. Sorry but their UI is kinda shitty, hasn’t improved in years, they don’t have a client of Linux, they take 30% just like Steam, and from my experience easily 25% of recent games there get updates far later than Steam, if they ever receive them… The Escapists is a good example of that.

  • Feature parity or get out

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  • Well… you just said no software works. They’ve given you counter examples, now you either have to cite examples of software not working with screen sharing or you’re the fool

  • Scam Alert!

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  • They take the risks, they have the idea, they have special skills… them getting a significant cut from your work doesn’t seem that bad

    Obviously there are always exceptions, there is always a too much

  • Scam Alert!

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  • Then make your own company and work by yourself

    Unless you can’t

  • Free iphone

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  • yea but I find that annoying

  • Free iphone

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  • Sometimes just clicking is counted as a fail.

    I click on phishing links just to see how bad the websites are

    Yes yes I know about 0days but they're rare

  • Jellyfin 10.11.0 Released

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  • I like the transparency

  • Jellyfin 10.11.0 Released

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  • ? Well there are many clients that work great

  • systemd-detect-fash: A utility to detect problematic software

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  • What a waste of time

  • People who don't like math, why?

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  • I like the concept and learning about the history and all, but putting it in practice is annoying

    Making imports and running some code functions to apply math things is a lot less annoying

  • What's a popular opinion on Lemmy that's unpopular in the real world?

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  • It’s a myth, no cisgender women, only transgender women and femboys, but yea they’re the goats

  • What's a popular opinion on Lemmy that's unpopular in the real world?

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  • Depends on the subject

  • What's a popular opinion on Lemmy that's unpopular in the real world?

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  • That’s the best one right there

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • Thanks for asking! The subject has been coming up for quite some time. I might edit this comment with more sources later on, because I’ve learned about this a few years ago and don’t keep a full list of my sources on me.

    I have a few reasons for this:

    1. The Wikimedia Foundation (the entity that receives your donations) only uses a really small fraction of your donations for the Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects. The rest goes into various non-essential spendings. [1]
    2. They're not efficient about spendings. Each year they receive more, and each year they spend more, way more than they should compared to Wikipedia's growth.
    3. The WMF doesn’t really do much on Wikipedia. All the writing and nearly all the moderation is done by volunteers.
    4. They block anonymous proxies, VPNs, Tor exit nodes from editing, even if you create an account. No exceptions for regular people.

    [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1123763881#RfC_on_the_banners_for_the_December_2022_fundraising_campaign

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  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • Free as in beer?

    Free as in freedom, where everyone is welcome to access, contribute.

    so the idea that anything stated there could possibly belong to someone doesn't exactly make sense. You can own the rights to a process, or a song, or own the right to produce something, but the composition of an object, the technology driving an innovation, or the background of music theory are facts, and statements around them are part of public discourse

    This is false. While facts are facts and no one owns them (except for patents), it’s the formulation that you own. Plagiarism is about this. I didn’t want to focus on the legal aspect anyways, the license behind contributions is well known and I have no issues with it.

    Your entire comment is not on the subject that I was talking about. I’m saying that the Wikimedia Foundation profits from volunteer work while they do very little, and I don’t believe that’s fair. I would much rather donate to contributors than to the foundation.

    You should also know that non profits are really often abused and a way to pay less taxes. Many of them act like for profits.

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • Then you have to accept Wikipedia is not free. I’m personally not willing to give them my IP, and I’ve been actively prevented from editing, fixing and adding information on the website.

    The sole knowledge that they don’t use the money to fund Wikipedia should be enough to understand that your donation is not needed. When you donate, you think you donate for the great content, and maintaining Wikipedia, but that money isn’t used for that, or at least in a very small proportion.

    Wikimedia foundation doesn’t write articles and do very few moderation. Iirc there are less than 100 employees working on the site. They’re financially profiting from the volunteer work people do. Just like Reddit.

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • Obviously, preserving Wikipedia is important. Donating is not the way to do it though

  • What's the status on Wikipedia donations?

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  • "Fascists criticize Wikipedia, therefore all criticism is done by fascists"

    I criticize them and I do not share the ideas you’re saying I do.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
    Electricd @lemmybefree.net

    Does the AGPL license allows not disclosing the source of third party scripts (in)directly interacting with the main software?

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
    Electricd @lemmybefree.net

    Looking for a FOSS Android custom control center

  • Fediverse @lemmy.ml
    Electricd @lemmybefree.net

    Community to ask for community names, like a directory