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Bluetreefrog

Bluetreefrog@lemmy.world
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I spent many years trying to be as FOSS as I could. I tried many different Linux distros, hunted for open source operating systems for my phone (at the time, none did even the basic things I needed it to do) until one day I decided I was sick to death of having to spend hours researching and trying multiple arcane cli commands to get even simple things to work (like WiFi). I realised that I was wasting an enormous amount of time being all-things-open-source.

My next purchase as a macbook as it was based on a *nix and I’ve come to realise that while Apple is a walled garden and in some ways is ‘evil’, it’s less evil than Google is now, or Microsoft was back in the day.

I also like the way that the various Apple devices work really well together. But I hate the fact that it’s harder to hack things to be the way that I want. Don’t get me wrong, I still love open source software, but I have too few years left to waste them on modifying config.org files, or whatever they do now, so I’m much more selective with what I use. I tend to use FOSS applications on MacOS where the software works well enough.

Not trying to bash FOSS, just my 2 cents.

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This should probably should be in a 3d Printing community rather than Piracy, but anyways:

thingiverse.com

thangs.com

printables.com

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Gotcha.

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Hmm, sorry what?

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It’s almost as if stiffing his previous lawyers has made people wary. Strange.

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Microsoft just don’t know how not to be assholes it seems.

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An algorithmic trading platform. Let me know if anyone wants a link to the Github repo.

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