KEEP YOUR LAMPS OUT MY WIFE’S BUTT

also Will-Cuck-Smith

assgasm?

I hate AI about as much as you do, but this pic is scratching an itch I’ve had for forty-ish years.

I’ve been awake so long I gave myself a heart condition.

I was a poor farm kid and winters were long.

I was still playing our Atari 2600 when the PS2 launched.

yes, because the real problem is too much choice.

fuckin finbro bullshit.

I remember paying $10 for an Atari game. I know it’s not a great comparison, but I got hundreds if not thousands of hours of gameplay out of Qbert. Can any of the leading games in the last decade do that?

It’s funny I mention Atari. They had so many games to play. the choices you had were bonkers. best part was you could take your carts to a friends house and trade or share.

can’t do that today since most games are digital downloads that need 32gb day-0 updates.

perhaps the problem isn’t the gamers, but instead it’s the greedy corporate interests that are poisoning the game industry requesting $80 single owner games.

I used Spotify once years ago. wanted to listen to the Beatles or Bowie or something.

first song was good. then they started playing Sinatra, then Katy Perry, then someone else.

I removed it just because if I told you to play “X” you play “X”.

so glad I still have my 500gb collection of mp3s.

IDK why everyone is shitting on Katy Perry and frankly, I feel vindicated for shitting on her since I knew she was a cunt.

fun fact, businesses operate without power by using battery operated calculators and inventory pads.

every minute a business isn’t in operation is a cost to the business.

I worked at Super Walmart decades ago. power went out for the whole town. the main HV lines collapsed after a tornado.

mgmt marked all the ice cream down 80% and we were still checking customers out on generators.

reduce risk, increase profits, mitigate losses. the only bad opportunity is the one you ignore.

by god we sold almost every tub of ice cream in an hour.

I lived on a farm. we had about 30+ cats. hard to pick a favorite, but as a farm kid you find them.

one day favorite cat disappears. don’t see them for weeks, turns to months, etc.

five years later, as a teen I go to a party at a friends house. sitting in their basement drinking a beer when a cat jumps in my lap.

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I look at the party host and ask if they got their cat about 5 years ago. “yeah, she just showed up and my sister wanted to keep her. why?” “no reason.”

I pet on my cat the whole party and never saw it again.

my point is, just because you can’t see them anymore doesn’t mean they’ve forgotten you.

good point, I was kind of hoping for a Quantum Leap thing though.

just a near-endless cycle of saving peoples lives.

Sometimes I fantasize about using a time machine to top normal people from dying.

go back and stop Elisa Lam, or stop some random person from getting killed in a dark alley, or talk to someone just long enough to stop them from causing a multi-fatality accident.

no, I think they’re saying clowns come in it.

cool. go be angry somewhere else.

I have no way of auditing what I’m putting money toward.

same can be said of FOSS. back channel deals, betrayals, hostile takeovers. all of these things can(and have) happen to FOSS projects. all under a false pretense of “openness”.

There’s no way for the community to keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

previous point. it’s stupid easy to change licenses and lock out contributors. it’s happened several times. although you can technically argue anything before the license change could be forked, the event usually puts a bad taste in the public mouth and contributions dry up anyway. nobody wants to support a project with uncertainty.

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

I’ve known plenty of FOSS founders that were huge pieces of shit. racist bigoted sexist shitheads. At least with proprietary vendors I can trust they will do anything to continue being fluid/viable.

just want to add, not all FOSS founders are pieces of shit. same can be said for vendors as well.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.o keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

why isn’t it? if it’s a generally better solution don’t you owe it to yourself and your “customers” to use the best solution? yes, use FOSS. yes, work with FOSS devs. What do you do when the project refuses to incorporate features you would like, even if you’re willing to pay for them? then there’s no difference between proprietary and FOSS, right?

enshitification doesn’t just affect vendors, it happens to FOSS projects all-the-time. I’ve personally experienced it when a bookkeeping app removed support for USD. when asked the founder refused to address it and simply stated that they couldn’t continue supporting a currency that fuels so much corruption in the world. now tell me, how does that garner my respect or support?

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

see point above. you hold FOSS too highly as if the people who create these projects are impervious to corruption or greed. these are regular people like you or me. they have goals and dreams they want to achieve too, and sometimes the projects they started become vessels for them to achieve those dreams.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.

You’re just repeating yourself now.

my point is, there cannot be light without darkness. FOSS and proprietary software are two halves of the same coin. to be so blinded by principles or to fool yourself with some moral superiority complex is only going to make things worse.

use what you need to solve the problems you have. sometimes that includes using vendor locked solutions. it’s not wrong, it’s just life.

yes, but actually no.

Plex pass members can continue sharing.

this isn’t directed just at you, but the whole jellyfin community in general.

not sure why, but the jellyfin community seems to be becoming toxic as fuck. I’m getting hard “best friend” vibes from it. if the Plex community leaves for jellyfin it’ll be on their own terms. just be welcoming to us and your numbers will grow.

if y’all keep acting like a jealous “guy” friend we’re likely to go somewhere else.

I don’t get why you’re being downvoted for spitting facts.

if you like software you should support it.

I balance eggs…

I’m talking specifics, not globally.