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  • 4 months

    Always be ready to migrate.

    or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.

    • 4 months

      or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.

      that may happen despite your contributing or not

      • 4 months

        you can also have car accident with or without alcohol, but that doesn’t mean that dui is good idea.

        • 4 months

          Yes, of course you shouldn’t drive under influence. Still, what a bad analogy. Two completely unrelated scenarios.

          • 4 months

            your inability to understand it doesn’t make it bad analogy. in both cases, one of the outcomes is far more likely. and your argument is as stupid as drunk driver explaining “i can crash sober, so why try”

            • 4 months

              your inability to understand it doesn’t make it bad analogy

              Wow how condescending we are today. I’m sorry I failed to appreciate the analogy that your big, beautiful smooth brain produced.

              Prick.

    • Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer, or every programmer to contribute to every piece of software they use.

      Besides, contribution is not a protection from capture, just look at MySQL.

      • 4 months

        Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer,

        i meant contributing with money. contributing code is nice, but that doesn’t help them to pay for electricity.

        • That’s donations, and I’ve donated to less projects that I’d like, because it would become costly very fast. Mainly things like Wikipedia or Jellyfin.