Auzy

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[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 3 points 3 hours ago

Don't forget that also being anti woke for whatever reason is really important.

Which basically is just a codeword that just means they think they can bully anyone they disagree with to make them fall in line

And they're always the victim of course

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 9 points 16 hours ago

Yeah. As an Aussie, I can't tell you how awesome free/cheap healthcare is

Don't forget Trump also wanted to get rid of generic medicine here in Australia, so it was also cost cheap medicine too

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I thought Trump already axed that?

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah. That's why I left it first, but Apple music has Rogan apparently now too. But yeah, is all fucked

Also, Spotify only has lossy audio

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

He tried shit here in Australia with our generic medicine. Even our right wing told him to get fucked

I hope you guys end up with the same result

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yep. Was going to mention that

And they say what percentage in Australia in a lot of cases

A year ago, I thought it was stupid. But with trump in charge, Im even switching to Linux now, and dumping Apple music for Spotify again

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 1 points 2 days ago

Thats definitely fair.. To be honest, I keep deleting my account on reddit / Lemmy to keep out of the debates.

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Except doesn't this replace their old tool? So, its not really fragmenting anything if its replacing an existing project.

Fragmentation isn't great, but it can be beneficial in some cases too. I've contributed to a number of projects.

Over the last 20-30 years, I've seen plenty of projects fail, and new ones take over.

If you take a look at arts/eaudio and the other sound servers of 20 years ago. All failed, because Pulseaudio consolidated and killed them eventually. Now, Pulseaudio is on its way to getting killed by Pipewire. And one could argue its a waste of resources.. but, the changeover is actually super awesome (for JACK)

One other good example of the fragmentation argument was Xfree86. Lots of people argued against Xorg at the time, and ultimately, Xfree86 died ages ago. If you asked me 20 years ago, I would have said KDE was dead, but now Gnome and KDE and carved out VERY different products, that suit very different people. Both are awesome in their own way

Everyone was freaking out when devFS got deprecated. But, udev was an amazing replacement

Linux is evolving FAR quicker than Windows or MAC (mac OS has barely changed in a decade). And, many ideas introduced in linux are stolen by Windows and Apple.

At the end of the day though, sometimes a rewrite is needed of things. What really matters is that it doesn't fragment the desktop experience (and, it won't in this case)

[–] Auzy@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Rather than downvoting. This is a good teachable moment

I used to think this way, that it was about efficiency exclusively

But the reality is, any contribution is better than none, and a lot of these things implemented you don't really understand how important they are until a while later often

One consideration also is that Germany is apparently considering to continue their Linux migration, so things like this may also be based on feedback from admins

Suse has definitely carved their own niche as a Linux distro and it's actually sad they're not more successful because a lot of their tools are pretty cool

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