Supposedly, I am a human, who does very human things.
People do get that ultimately Firefox is paying rent right? Like if firefox goes too far, the much smaller team behind Librewolf is very unlikely to be able to keep up.
This is some weird shit that only people in bubbles would comment.
It doesn't help anyone but does make people celebrate losing ideas prematurely.
The fact he can just shows how far gone the us is, yet each insane thing that happens gets only a mild bitching online as the loss involved in righting the ship grows exponentially.
Congrats on choosing a worse result yet again then, by utterly misunderstanding their incentive structures and government function.
This mentality only makes you feel good; it doesn't do good.
I must disagree with you there. I get more support from the open source community and their things than I do from commercial stuff.
I would say this is true, but only in a way that largely misses the finer details and thus the bigger picture.
The biggest example I can think of that that I feel generally represents what I was saying, is the difference between Fusion 360 and FreeCAD, where its free, because thats the value of your time if you use it.
FreeCAD will have a higher likelyhood to have you find a community helper to help with a specific technical problem, and while Autodesk does respond to tickets, they are less hands on and if your ticket gets resolved youll just get a notification a month or 2 later if lucky.
The thing is, Fusion is actually usable, and FreeCAD is painful to use. It is so painful, I won't even hear the tired "people just aren't used to it" arguments people love to trot out about it.
It purposefully uses UX that doesn't match the patterns of any other CAD package, that people (enough that I am comfortable generalizing) find utterly unintuitive, and has had major issues that go unsolved simply because they're not seen to be issues.
They literally only recently, after literal decades of existing partially solved the most famous problem, the topological naming problem, and they still don't allow multiple profiles in one sketch.
Its Free, and maybe in some ways it could be said to have "support" but ..... if you make any money at all, you'd be literally better paying 800 bucks a year to Autodesk to not have to deal with it.
Just to be super clear if you aren't familiar, Onshape, Solidworks, Inventor, whatever. All of them anyone who has used any of them can switch over and be proficient enough in minutes.
FreeCAD is the far outlier.
It's so bad, because of the underlying spaghetti code, that some venture capitalists came in, thinking they could just fix the UX and then sell cloud services ontop, tried to fix it, realized the fire, realized there was no way they could make it profitable within a reasonable amount of time, and shut down.
That being said, I fully realize that FreeCAD is at the Gimp end of the spectrum and not the Blender end of the spectrum (with Blender being so good and useful that it is (in places) actually used in industry.
The most interesting part of this comment is that you could not answer the question, and instead needed to deflect, and answer a question that wasn't asked.
This just goes to show that my question was indeed an on point criticism of the previous take.
Programmers can also create non-enshittified solutions in their off time and release it publicly for free and many do.
It's a nice idea, but what that ultimately boils down to, is horrible to use programs with barely any support because people (reasonably) don't have the time or support to give them the full beans.
They also result in programs that are basically only made for their users, and that, to everyone else are some weird esoteric programs with outlandish UX.
Like I like open source as much as the next guy, but open source software is not fixing the enshitification of society, especially as devices take away more and more user autonomy. These are bandaid solutions that allow the power users most equipped to make arguments against the hostile enshitification takeover to bury their heads in the sand as they scurry to stay alive, squeezing between the cracks, increasingly having to give up in more and more areas as solutions take more and more focus to keep alive.
Also, more than that, how many programmers actually are doing this? I'd say it's a rare occurrence.
What good can a marketer do for the world?
Activism. They communicate and convince people, so activism is an area where they could help the world if they so chose.
This is such elitist nonsense. What specialty tricks do you think an every day user would possibly need to know that they couldn't learn in a single semester.
This is elitist bullshit that isn’t reflected in the real world.
It truly is. They are literally just doing the infinite abstraction argument where they pretend only the level of abstraction they're at is valid, when I could easily say that they don't really know how to use a computer if they can't compile their own C Code or program directly in assembly.
You don't think scammers don't also use other tools?
This is a ridiculous reason to replace more useful general skills with less useful specific skills (for the majority).
They are good at social manipulation and compartmentalization.
The programmers are similarly morally bankrupt, as they're implementing the enshitification of the worst people, the business people who make the shitty decisions both implement.
Some donuts are getting ripped apart.
Those are all just affiliate spam links, often AI made, generated to get people to spend the most money so they get the best kickbacks.
We are so far from this when people choose to vote in a literal pedo fascist over boring neoliberal.
There isn't a chance in hell you get a pro workers president any time soon when the general population can't tell the difference above, and somehow think the only rational choice is a """"far left"""" socialist such as famously very socialist former DA Harris.
They are becoming so by way of people not doing anything about it, and literally voting them into power.
Its crazy to me how short term so many people think.
I mean basic logic dictates that the companies clearly know the union is the better option for you and worse option for them when they're willing to give up concessions, and it should be similarly obvious that inherently, the concessions will never be equivalent to what you are losing in increased wages and protections from if you had made a union.
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While I’m certain there are people like this out there, this is not what the majority of firearms owners are actually like.
Having seen gun forums, unedited public range footage, private range footage, seminars, which guns sell best etc etc, I simply think this is a lie you tell yourself to support what you already believe.
The average gun owner in the US is very much so like this image. Maybe not as many guns, but absolutely the same mentality.
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This isn't even satire, this is just the majority of gun owners.
There are 2 types of gun enthusiasts.
AR15 colllectors and gun collectors.
The AR15 collectors literally just masturbate about shooting an unarmed minority legally and play obstruction whenever there are criticisms.
The gun collectors are a much smaller collection of people who think guns are pretty cool.
I'm only ok with one of these 2 types of people having guns, but the AR15 folks outnumber them massively.
Just to be clear, when I refer to AR15 folks, I mean the gravy seals. The tacticool collectors who collect gear based on fantasies of killing unarmed minorities legally for literally any reason at all. They aren't into guns for their history, mechanisms or anything like that. They're into guns as an identity and means to inflict pain upon groups they hate.
Why would they? Ram hasn't been a problem for more than a decade relating to UI.
Electron apps being 500MB simply isnt a problem. People aren't loading 15 seperate instances, at most power users are loading like 3.
My point being that people are misinformed about how much of the important work is being done by who.
The bills have to be paid.
The underlying development exists because the developers at mozilla can put food on the table.
We can't ignore the fact that a project of Firefoxs scale cannot be held together by volunteer work and hopes and prayers.
If people cared as much as they said they did, they should be looking at how the public could buy Mozilla such that the enshitification stopped rather than pretending alternatives would be able to survive the wake of any of the giants they are downstream of sinking.
Web browsers really should have been publicly funded but we have what we have...