Deja vu

There’s a better candidate than Trump that I just flushed down the shitter this morning.

I mean, you can even say or think Trump would be better, too, if you want; it’s a free country^1. But, also, I would ridicule you because you’re deluded.

1 assumes you live in a free country; if in the USA, terms and conditions apply.

Unless you’re in IT, apparently? Idk.

Relatedly, my conspiracy theory is that the spate of recent layoffs are coordinated pushback against all the strikes and unionizing as well as pushback against RTO etc. Just a wild idea I had… May be total horseshit, idk.

On the other hand, we have seen collusion in the past within some sectors (e.g., price fixing, no poach agreements, wage fixing), and antitrust violations often go unpunished or weakly penalized, corporate leadership is strongly driven by profit often to the exclusion of ethics and at the expense of all else. And employee compensation is a significant part of most company budgets. So, I think my wild idea is at least somewhat plausible.

Nice. I may make a move to something like that soon as my phone is getting near the end.

Probably true. I was a dev briefly and in a limited way. I do it as a hobby. Have a bunch of open source embedded stuff out there and a few other minor things. I don’t mind because I did it for me and figured why not share.

Writing a complicated, fully polished, production ready app with a fancy UI is a massive pain for me. So much so that I have never made it that far. I would have to get paid plenty to go to that kind of trouble. Actually no. There’s a reason I chose a different career lol.

I guess some people have a talent and passion to do big projects free of charge and open source. Cool for them but no shade to throw at devs that want much deserved compensation!

That’s for sure. Yikes. So much outrage it seems like. Idk.

Some day you may realize what “different strokes for different strokes” means.

Your cost/benefit analysis is not identical to mine.

No. The dev created sync for Reddit years ago. With the same kind of pricing options.

Those of us who love the app and decided to migrate when Reddit totally fucked him and others over kind of begged for a lemmy version.

Sync is for us folks, primarily. Clearly not for you or the other folks getting bent out of shape.

I don’t see why anyone needs to get so vocal over someone porting their existing app to lemmy. I find it baffling.

But I guess folks need something to complain about or something.

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Nice knowing you? Idk.

Yes exactly!

Or Commodore 64 vs Apple //e vs IBM PC. Unix System V vs BSD vs VAX/VMS. Gawd. I’m long past those days.

I’m a Linux user. Hopefully not too annoying lol. Also a Mac and Windows user. Because they’re tools and I find 'em useful for different things.

I would be very, very surprised if the people getting bent out of shape about an app charging money and/or displaying ads use a flip phone or Linux/bsd phone and no closed source anything. (Car? Network router? Fridge? Television? Seriously? There’s closed source firmware in so many things…)

If I am wrong I will eat crow but… Also how? That seems like unhinged religious zealotry.

I don’t care for loss of privacy and big corps fucking everyone. But hey I run pihole and ublock. It’s not perfect but I have too many other far more important priorities, like friends, family, enjoying life, work, etc. to go all jihad against all closed source software.

I remember being all absolutist and dogmatic in my thinking when I was in my 20s. I gained perspective and chilled in the last 30 years.

What version of Linux or unix are you using on your phone?

Spot on. For that matter, this is the pattern I’ve seen in computers since the 80s.

What in the world are you on about?

I wasn’t asking so much as begging [for Sync]. I kinda wished all the people shitting on the app for gasp charging money would just ignore that it exists and keep using the web. Or go write their own app that is as good and give it away. (Because it’s clearly so easy /s)

They could also be having a life or idk going to a movie. People that demand software cost $0 either never programmed anything more than a few hundred lines or are iq 2000 coding perfect fully complete applications in ten minutes using cat >

Yes the app developer should totally work for free.

Also servers are free to run yay.

Seriously what in the world?

I relate so much to this. The funny thing is I probably would get your references lol.

Maybe when it is out of beta??

Anyway sync was awesome with Reddit. I’m quite happy the dev has released the lemmy version.

I love user tagging so much…