I’m sure that’s correct. Richard Stallman would be a good example of that, sadly. I doubt anything as negative has been said in this thread, or site. Seems more like people feel attacked when free software advocates point out uncomfortable issues. Like how people get annoyed with vegans talking about animal cruelty (I eat meat, saying that to avoid theonejoke).
I mention software freedom whenever I can.
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To continue the metaphor: a partner can have many alluring qualities (income, hobbies, looks) but what does that matter if the relationship is abusive? Leaving (and dating someone “worse”) can be more difficult that just staying in the relationship, but the priority should be clear.
If people choose not to use software that’s open source because of the way people talk on some thread… were they intellectually thinking about their own best interests? It’s like no longer enjoying a show because some fans did something cridge - anything popular enough will have weirdos (from someone’s perspective).
What’s it from?
You mean a morally “right” solution? 😇
- Open source has high immunity to devs making changes at the expense of the user for their benefit because anti-features can be removed. Recommending another proprietary alternative here would be like saying they aught to leave an abusive partner but then recommend someone with the same red flags.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharingEnglish71·2 months agoPlex is in control of their user’s computing in a way Jellyfin isn’t. You can remove anti-features from Jellyfin software and even redistribute it. So it’s much less likely they would do something like Plex and it even doesn’t matter if they did as you can find others to work on it in a way you want. Plex is proprietary software, Jellyfin is software freedom.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” featureEnglish2·4 months agoDid it download the original file or are there download options transcoded on the server?
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” featureEnglish514·4 months agoAlthough Plex is running on your server it isn’t there to do what you want… unless Plex’s real owner permits it.
That’s how proprietary software works.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!English2·4 months agoNot got around to trying it out properly yet. Waiting on new AMD GPUs, hoping for a low-end encoder or I may get access to a RX 480.
What does Jellyfin use .NET for?
May be a good idea to include that update/correction in your prior post.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I don't understand the purpose of some selfhostingEnglish1·5 months agoI came from a ~10 year old phone so FF5 was a big upgrade. Battery lasts the work day (may go from 80% to ~50% or ~30% mostly playing bluetooth audio for like 4 hours on and off). Fairphone uses some industrial chip instead of a mobile one - so it uses more power but they say it can get much longer updates than other phones. I usually have the screen set to 60Hz to save power, but a cheeky 120Hz session feels great. One bug is I can’t charge it in power save mode.
I got standard Android but replaced the proprietary store/apps (updates still requires Google Pain Store). I planned to try out an Android fork later but that’s was not as easy as I had naively thought. [Requires an SDK binary that come with non-free license and 3rd party guides to build it myself were rather dead].
I not aware it could run non-android OS - do you have exp installing a Linux phone OS? How did you find that? I’ll have to look into FF5 compatibility.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•I don't understand the purpose of some selfhostingEnglish1·5 months agoHave you considered Fairphone 5? Might not compare to modern phones but it’s very repairable.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted solution for phone photo backupEnglish1·6 months agoDamn. I think a few updates have happened on the App but not seen an issue yet. Guess I’ll update the docker image when an app update does break it - family don’t use it often and I don’t want to manage their phone updating the app.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted solution for phone photo backupEnglish2·6 months agoApparently docker images must be manually updated, so currently I don’t. Thanks for the info.
tabular@lemmy.worldto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted solution for phone photo backupEnglish1·6 months agoDoes Immich auto update / breaking changes?
HexOS makes using TrueNAS easier, is the claim.
I have never used TrueNAS so I can only say from what I’ve heard that I could easily break it (I have used Proxmox to run some web tools and game servers but that’s a borked project currently).
If one limits their scope to the nutrients or taste of food on their plate then they wouldn’t consider the well-being of other conscious creatures. Only considering system requirements to complete an activity misses out the freedom of the user(s), apparently.
It is a given that humans suffer due to the unjust power that proprietary software gives devs over their user’s computing. Even the best dev does not the the willpower to always resist the temptation to use that power at the expense of the users. Many devs are oblivious they are doing anything wrong and many are malicious/anti-consumer.
There is also the impact it’s use and promotion has on others - money/feedback/promotion given to the non-free projects are boons not given to the freedom-respecting projects. I am better off when others start to move away from proprietary software.