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    I still like this meme (sh.itjust.works)
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    [–] otto@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    I just don’t get this delusion that “closed source” = evil.

    Then again, I never “got” fanatical movements or beliefs.

    [–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I never “got” fanatical movements or beliefs.

    Said the guy defending Apple on Lemmy. Oh, boy.

    [–] otto@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Do you often hallucinate things I never said? What am I not saying now?

    [–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

    I'm sure in your head that was a great comeback. Good job, champ.

    [–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    This is a good thing 😊

    Tbf, I think the idea is that closed source is not necessarily "bad" per se but rather "unstable", like how Reddit was closed source and then enshittified, leaving no access to it. Which reveals the limitations of that style of thinking: part of what made Reddit so accessible was that it was centralized, so even if someone did spin up a new Reddit (didn't that actually happen, now that I come to think of it? or at least an older version of its sourcecode?), it still would not work to replace the "Reddit" that we knew. There can be only one... for such a non-federated platform.

    Conversely, Kbin was open source, and spawned Mbin after Kbin.social died and Ernst stopped working so much on Kbin. Then again... look at Mbin now, barely any further ahead than it was when it was still Kbin? (In contrast, PieFed is adding new features like mad!) And the OP meme seems to me more a reflection on how open-source Wine never bothered to add support for running 32-bit x86 old Windows on a 64-bit modern Mac running on an M-series chip. In contrast, there are multiple other solutions already existing: Parallels, VMWare Fusion, and dual booting with a 32-bit Mac OS to name 3 examples. Just bc Wine doesn't do the task, doesn't mean that other, non-FOSS software can't and won't.

    And even on Linux, you still would need the extra step to install libraries to get 32-bit programs running on a 64-bit architecture. So downloading and installing stuff isn't limited to just Macs, it's Linux too, for this exact scenario.

    Or, to hear the meme tell it, Linux never has any problems ever, i.e. "in-group good, but out-group bad". Sigh...