‘natural rights’ okay so why are they right(s)?

is there public awareness that isn’t advertising?

yeah I’m usually the ‘I will make your machines stop using you’ friend. which is probably why I’m so bitter about people putting up with this shit.

your gf is kind of a tool and needs to crack or replace her TV.

I’m pretty sure the corporate property rights say you’re not allowed tho.

so maybe laws are fucking stupid and you do it because if basic human dignity or something?

well, they just picked up one follower.

I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.

Not sure I’d buy one used tho.

Yeah only garbage people use anything else.

When every decision is made by people alienated from every material or functional concern by like ten layers of abstraction, all decisions smell of recent severe skull deforming head trauma.

Two categories, broadly: any professional software, with deep features and professional quality.

I know theres audacity, but that’s really not an acceptable saw.

I know theres a few cad apps, but no professional I’ve ever met finds the good enough.

I know gimp, and I use it, but no artist I know does; they all pirate Photoshop. Literally every one.

I like having audacity to record audio. I like having gimp to fuck with shit. I like having various cad apps to bang out organizational tools to print. These things do generally fit my use case. But I still have to help people pirate everything else and god the DRM is do fucking annoying.

Abd here’s the more esoteric ask:

Not so much programs as features; Why aren’t we really going all in on shit we can do that they can’t? Features capitalists would never add, never support? Instead I find open source software always playing catch-up, and theres no reason it has to.

Okay so I can’t write for shit, but I’m officially putting out the call to all programmers who aren’t shit:

Reply to this commenr, and be friends, even if you hate each other. World needs saving. Truth needs saving.

We are, but, like… Just preferring something else doesn’t make vim unimpressive. Silver medal’s still pretty fucking prestigious, you know?

Really the only way.

I wish enough people had a spine that it wasn’t necessary.

its worse now

Your friends are correct.

Please write this code and I’ll do it tomorrow when stuff opens today.

So you need to hack it and violate warranty to make it work? And this is just fine? On a product you paid for?