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Imagine a donut on the street, free, and fresh. Nothing bad will happen if you eat the donut.
Now imagine that same donut in a bakery, but you have to pay a dollar or two.
Which donut are you eating?
That's the problem with open source.
@zemichi the free donut in the streets has a small chance of giving you flaming shits and when you ask everyone about it they'll say "idk man the free donut in the streets i picked up didn't do anything to me"
I mean if you know *for sure* that nothing bad will happen if you eat the donut, then yeah you'd take the street donut right? You only want the store donut because of the guarantee that it won't do anything bad to you.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @zemichi that's the problem with the comparison though lol, something bad might happen if you eat the donut xD
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @zemichi no I also mean with the open source software, in the way of needing to troubleshoot the fuck out of it meanwhile people are like "just works for me!" I like tinkering with stuff but sometimes even explicitly following tutorials doesn't work.
I finally tried out yt-dlp the other day and was astonished at how easy it was compared to lots of other software I've used like it lol.
@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @zemichi and you still have to do a fair amount of troubleshooting with closed source stuff, but it's usually way easier to work with and has a higher success rate
