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  • Delilah (She/Her)@lemmy.blahaj.zonetolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldNo comment
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    21 hours ago

    The core principal of GNU from which every other principal is derived is “I shouldn’t need an ancient unmaintained printer driver that only works on windows 95 to use my god damned printer. I should have the source code so I can adapt it to work with my smart toaster”

    If an app is open source then I’ve almost never encountered a situation where I can’t build a working version. Its happened to me once that I remember. A synthesia clone called linthesia. Would not compile for love nor money and the provided binary was built for ubuntu 12 or something.

    Linux was probably ready for the 64-bit appocalypse even before Apple for this exact reason. Anything open source will just run, on anything, because some hobbiest has wanted to use it on their favourite platform at some point. And if not, you’d be surprised how not hard it is to checkout the sourcecode from github and make your own port. Difficult, but far from impossible.

    Steam games do not distribute source code, which means they break, and when they break the community can’t fix them. They can’t statically link glibc because that would put them in violation of the GPL (as far as I’m aware anyway). They are fundamentally second class citizens on linux because they refuse to embrace its culture. FOSS apps basically never die while there’s someone to maintain them.

    Its like when American companies come to Europe and realise the workers have rights and then get a reputation as scuzzballs for trying to rules lawyer those rights.















  • Okay but lots of things that are prescribed are poisons that will kill you in doses larger than the prescription calls for. And they will ESPECIALLY kill you if you let them tag team your liver without a doctor looking over the cocktail and going “sure, that sounds fine”. I support people drinking alcohol. I do not support them mixing it with medication that already taxes the liver and makes you more suseptible to its effects.

    Now on the other paw, doctors shouldn’t be allowed to tell a patient “you can’t take that because I don’t believe in vaccines”. That’s stupid and would get you kicked out of the medical field and denying an estrogen prescription should result in the same. But like, if prescriptions didn’t exist a lot more people would die of mixing medications they really shouldn’t.