I’m grateful for FF, but they also annoy me at times. Just little stuff probably not worth bitching about in detail. But also a peek at the potential for problems that you’re talking about.
So of course I’ll bitch about it.
I call it the “stop whatever you think you’d rather do right now and pay attention to our product” type shit.
Imagine you have a combination wrench and whenever you take it out of the toolbox it starts yammering at you about how great of a wrench it is and all if its shiny features. Fucking ridiculous, right?
So why do we tolerate software that does that?
Way too much software does this pushy shit. Just stay outta my face and do your actual job, software.
parpol@programming.dev 1 month ago
pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Chromium (Google Chrome’s base) is also open source.
And yet, we’re still at a corporation’s mercy as to whether everything Chromium-based gets ruined by Google’s fuck-what-the-users-want policies. Like with Manifest V3. And JXL support. And extensions on mobile.
parpol@programming.dev 1 month ago
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Except now you have to maintain a branch that’s missing everything after that release upstream.
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Users do want MV3. The people complaining about it are in the minority.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Users don’t know what the fuck Manifest is period. They just click the internet button. And for the longest time that meant the E with a loop around it. Now that means the multicolored circle.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Why the hell would a user want MV3?
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So is Android. So is Chromium. So is React, and Flutter. So is Java.
Open source doesn’t mean FOSS.
bamboo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Open source does mean FOSS. It doesn’t mean community-oriented.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No it doesn’t. Different licenses dictate what you can and can’t do with open source software. Some are more restrictive than others. Open source simply means that the source code is freely available.