What a good dude

3 years ago by Grand_Raccoon0924 to c/lemmybewholesome

De_Narm 192 points 3 years ago

Gonna be real honest here, I would have taken that in a heartbeat. It's an open source project, I could disappear with my money and the project could be continued from a different fork without ads. The only thing you're really sacrificing is your reputation and with enough money I don't care.

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AllonzeeLV 163 points 3 years ago

and with enough money I don't care.

Most people are like you.

Which is precisely why humanity will be just another of many dead end evolutionary cul-de-sacs in Earth's natural history.

I've come to peace with that, but this is a nice microcosm of the core reason. We can do better, we know better, but at the end of the day, almost all of us will just take the animalistic dopamine rush of winning.

Live together or die alone. We choose the second one like breathing.

If most humans were like Kempf (we're not), we'd actually have a chance.

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MirthfulAlembic 85 points 3 years ago

I don't think this hypothetical is about winning so much as never having to worry about your needs being met again. The calculus changes completely for a lot of people (not optimistic enough to say most) if that's not part of the equation.

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alekwithak 57 points 3 years ago

Which is exactly why Capitalism keeps us barely holding on, by design.

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Tja -10 points 3 years ago

What are you talking about? Capitalism is the system that focused on (in some countries even created) the "middle class", because it's beneficiary to have a whole group of people that have all their needs met and have disposable income to keep the machine running.

If you don't have money for iPads, cars, vacations, avocado toast and fancy lattes, capitalism grinds to a halt and crumbles.

The biggest companies and richest people of the world and not selling bread, water and shelter. They are selling fashion electronics, electric cars and ads on entertainment websites.

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AllonzeeLV 19 points 3 years ago

Right, but at cost to others, and attempting to minimize the cost to others trying to rationalize it. That's the point. Call it winning, call it succeeding, call it whatever you like, its me over us. The idea of accepting your benefit at the loss of numerous others tears people en masse down. Maybe another branch would become as popular, maybe not, but such choices are presented frequently in our civilization, and the choice is usually to take the win at other's expense.

Regardless, we are what we are and on a long enough time scale what we are will destroy us. That's not as sad to me as all the other creatures we'll take with us, but even we won't be able to sterilize all terran life, so the Earth will recover from us. Life will go on after we successfully fuck ourselves trying to fuck one another. I find solace in that.

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MirthfulAlembic 7 points 3 years ago

There's virtually nothing that is not, at some scale, at a cost to others while benefitting oneself. Someone is always hungrier, sicker, whatever. However, the magnitude is what matters. Not every cost is equal. The creator of some free software putting in ads is a shame, but not a tragedy. Life will go on. We are not entitled to the fruit of their labor for free if they don't want to provide it any more.

It's all a symptom. We can't revolve our expectations around people giving us all free labor out of the kindness of their hearts with how our society is structured. It's great so many do, and extremely admirable, but I'd never fault any of them for going another way.

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Tja 2 points 3 years ago

Or you can see it the other way around. You and I are enjoying such a great piece of software at the expense of the developers who gave us their expertise, time and effort for free.

If you use Linux, vlc, Firefox, lemmy, gimp, etc without donating to the authors/maintainers, you are putting you over them, "winning" at the cost of others. You are getting a personal benefit at the loss of numerous others...

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whostosay 1 point 3 years ago

Well put.

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Entropywins 9 points 3 years ago

That is a very western, independent cultural paradigm you have there. Western culture and values are not shared by everyone in the west let alone all humanity.

Only a few of us have strong narcissistic and anti-social personality traits, but they are vocal and usually end up in positions of power.

I would argue the vast majority of humanity throughout history is more selfless and willing to sacrifice and work towards a goal than you give us credit for. Look at the big picture and think about how much innovation has come from a place not driven by profit potential but for THE potential to go further.

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AllonzeeLV 36 points 3 years ago

When I look at the world and to the East, I see just as many people in suits lording over people slaving for very little. I see Asian factory owners and managers getting bonuses for inflicting draconian conditions on their factory workers to the point of suicides. I see eastern governments sending their citizens to brainwashing camps to make governing them a little easier. I see the rare society that does find homeostasis with its environment being decimated by societies of people with a selfish interest in the land they sit on time and time again. Taiwan isn't at war with anyone, but China wants their shit because they want their shit. No cowboys or rugged individuals required.

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Entropywins 3 points 3 years ago

I can very much so see your point and have shared similar sentiments but I have to disagree with you. If you look at trends in humanity I honestly feel we collaborate and work together much more than we destroy, even if destruction and looking out for self gets more attention.

There would be no one to take advantage of if we weren't more often than not working together for common goals and interests. Those that take advantage of the rest of us are the minority, but again, they are vocal and usually in positions of power.

You have excellent points and are speaking truth, but I just see it differently.

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stebo02 6 points 3 years ago

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AllonzeeLV 12 points 3 years ago

Because it makes us feel safe, and it makes us feel like we'll be happy.

I have a Master's in Psychology, and I will always remember the disheartening feeling when I learned the most prevalent and accepted theory of what defines human happiness. Know what it is?

Comparison to others.

Very literally, the person in the tribe with the biggest mud hut is probably happier than you in your Chevrolet when your neighbor pulls up in a Cadillac.

Yes, we really are that small as a rule.

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JustZ 7 points 3 years ago

Comparison to others is the killer of all joy.

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Tinidril 3 points 3 years ago

Is that what makes us the most happy, or is it where we most often seek happiness? I don't think they are the same thing. You aren't going to find the happiest people in the world living in poverty, but I don't think they are billionaires either.

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iAvicenna 2 points 3 years ago

and hence billionaires' obsession in having more money and bigger yachts than other billionaires.

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SurpriZe 1 point 3 years ago

What do you mean by the person in the tribe? Are you talking about a hypothetical tribal society and their happiness when removed from the civilized world as opposed to people in more modern communities?

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ThatWeirdGuy1001 -3 points 3 years ago

Because everyone thinks they need to live lavishly.

Everyone thinks they need a mansion or twelve cars to be happy.

If everyone would be content with simply living a modest life we could exist harmoniously with the environment.

But nope gotta have that big house with all that empty land for aesthetics so fuck everyone else ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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Soulg 5 points 3 years ago

This view only makes sense if the basic necessities for life were actually affordable for most people, which is completely untrue

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stebo02 4 points 3 years ago

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iAvicenna 3 points 3 years ago

Not really. I feel like for instance if you are living in the US, you may easily need to pay the price of twelve cars if you need state of the art medical treatment for something like cancer. Hard to say no to a couple million bucks just even from this perspective.

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anarchy79 2 points 3 years ago

This is what happens when you let an arbitrary system of resource management based on strife and competition govern your society top-down.

Making everyone compete for resources against one another in an abstract version of Hunger Games is not going to lead to good results.

If you decree a global law that says that everyone is to compete against one another in a zero sum game for resources, in perpetuity, and that law remains in full effect for generations upon generations, people will go insane. The algorithm programs us as well as we program it- "amass, forever" is not a great command to issue just in general with no other conditions or parameters, especially without a goal state. You don't just "program", you create a program that is to achieve some result.

If the only game in the world was soccer, and everyone in the world had to play, at all times, at the risk of dying if they don't, they will start conceptualizing their whole reality around soccer, and soccer will at some point supersede reality- it will become reality.

I like to ask people- "in a thousand years, if humanity is still around, do you think we will still be living under a capitalist system?". By far the most common response is more or less yes, and furrowed eyebrows. I find that most people are incapable of entertaining even the thought of an alternative. Not because they're stupid or ignorant, but because the thought would never occur to them, like if one were asking a fish to imagine a replacement for water, it's just beyond the scope of imagination bordering on the purely metaphysical.

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LEVI 1 point 2 years ago

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WillFord27 1 point 3 years ago

Definitely team Hurley here

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Imgonnatrythis 67 points 3 years ago

And that's why your picture isn't on the front page of Lemmy 2day!

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KrankyKong 28 points 3 years ago

I think I would manage.

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Tja 6 points 3 years ago

My picture already isn't there every day. I'd rather have my picture still not there AND a few millions in my account...

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brbposting 43 points 3 years ago

Almost the best of both worlds right?

Creator gets a huge payout, well deserved. Users install VLC, see ads, exit, search web for “VLC ads”, see the fork, re-install having wasted 2-3 minutes total. Eventually “VLC Origin” is the only one anybody talks about.

Those who can stomach ads don’t bother finding the ad-free version, and still use great software. Even the advertisers win.

(This assumes no abusive telemetry / spyware.)

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vinhill 5 points 3 years ago

Could even use the money for new open source projects or for funding the VLC fork.

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bighatchester 6 points 3 years ago

Who needs a reputation when you have money ! I'd do the same , hopefully he is atleast not broke.

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gibmiser 5 points 3 years ago

Well, with enough money you can buy a better reputation!

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criitz 4 points 3 years ago

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Emerald 2 points 3 years ago

I would take the money, put ads in the installer, but warn everyone about them and link them to another repo with an ad-free installer. I would also constantly slander the company

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sphfaar 1 point 3 years ago

Firefox is like this in fact, just put the option to deactivate or fork open source and everyone is happy.

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LarmyOfLone 107 points 3 years ago

I moved away from VLC because of the somewhat boring UI. Then I used potplayer, then I discovered MPV - which is awesome because it's so performant you can easily customize it.

But I think VLC helped pioneer the library that allows decoding and playing videos without the mess that were video codec drivers on desktop.

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TrickDacy 69 points 3 years ago

If I try to play 3 random videos in VLC, they all three will play perfectly. If I try those same three on anything else, at least one of them will be buggy in some way.

Yes you can argue there could be encoding problems in the video file of that buggy one, but somehow VLC just always works. Shit's unbelievably good, so I won't be switching.

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DrMango 29 points 3 years ago

I remember the first time I encountered the Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) media type which ultimately lead me to downloading VLC as it was the only player that could handle it at the time

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PopShark 3 points 3 years ago

Same story. I even remember where the files came from - ripped from Daft Punk’s Homework album (I had and have the physical CD)

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TrickDacy 2 points 3 years ago

I used to use media player classic. it seemed good until I used VLC which was already way ahead of it

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racemaniac 5 points 3 years ago

Sadly i recently learned VLC doesn't just always work.

About a year ago i had an issue with playing FLAC files on VLC, where there would be short periods of no audio. I had recently made some upgrades to my audio hardware, so i was looking at my new hardware/cables/config.... but in the end i realized it always happened at the same point in the same files, so a software issue was more likely:

https://code.videolan.org/...

Nice quote from this issue: VLC is broken since months Use their nightly version, it has a nice new interface too, and no bugs. I don't get how they can keep a huge breaking bug like this in vlc from MONTHS.

And neither can i... until a year ago VLC was for me the pinnacle of "it just works". Now after them leaving a bug causing audio playback issues into their stable version for months, they broke my trust in them... they're probably still the best option out there, but now i'll just say probably, not for sure, and there is room for improvement...

And if it were some obscure format, sure, but FLAC? ....

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TrickDacy 7 points 3 years ago

Damn, that sucks. I've rarely used VLC for anything but video. I wonder if it's not super high priority because it's not a video bug? Sucks either way because yeah it has always seemed very solid

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i_love_FFT 2 points 3 years ago

Well... I'd point you to this very nice blog post to help rationalize why it can take a long time.

https://snarky.ca/...

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racemaniac 1 point 3 years ago

It was already fixed in their nightly builds, and it's an extremely mature video & audio player, i get most open source projects can't pounce on any tiny issue. But like the most mature open source player should be able to resolve a serious playback issue in their stable build in less than a month. Either by applying the fix that fixed it in their nightly builds, or by reverting to a previous version of whatever is causing it that had it working well in earlier versions. I get the open source mantra of "you're not the client", but VLC is good & big enough to manage this kind of stuff a lot better.

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ignism 2 points 3 years ago

but in the end i realized it always happened at the same point in the same files, so a software issue was more likely

Isn’t the logical conclusion here there’s an issue with the FLAC files instead of the player?

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racemaniac 2 points 3 years ago

It would be if those weren't flac files i had for a long time and i knew didn't have any issues.

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CaptnNMorgan 4 points 3 years ago

Not a 4K movie.

edit: the only reason I switched from VLC to potplayer was because VLC couldn't play my 2160p videos

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TrickDacy 10 points 3 years ago

Hmm I've definitely played many 4k videos in VLC. Don't remember having any issues.

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sysadmin420 2 points 3 years ago

Weird I never had issues playing 2160 porn in VLC, on occasion

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CaptnNMorgan 1 point 3 years ago

All the 4K movies I tried skipped frames on VLC

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LarmyOfLone 3 points 3 years ago

How many porn videos do you need to watch simultaneously?

spoiler

(for me it's 4 but I might have to go up to 9)

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TrickDacy 7 points 3 years ago

I mean, I didn't say porn nor did I say simultaneously

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JeeBaiChow 7 points 3 years ago

All of them. Duh.

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anarchy79 1 point 3 years ago

The only answer is 4, unless you are running alternative audio tracks on a second monitor in the background. Borderless, of course.

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abbotsbury 38 points 3 years ago

MPC-HC and MPV both rock, but VLC will always stay on all my machines because any time I have a problem with a video file, VLC opens that shit no issue.

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anarchy79 5 points 3 years ago

I can trust VLC as software. Trust is a rare thing to have for any software these days.

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KingRandomGuy 13 points 3 years ago

As of right now VLC also doesn't properly support Wayland, but MPV does. It's a great piece of software!

Agree on the sentiment about VLC though, having an open source project demonstrate what is possible and stand the test of time definitely paves the way for future work and improvements.

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wersooth 10 points 3 years ago

I still have PTSD from those codec-install-infested-times.... God bless VLC and it's Author / Creator!

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user224 1 point 3 years ago

Boo!

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kilgore_trout 7 points 3 years ago

Still mpv's gpu-next video output driver is based on VLC's libplacebo.

VLC is really slow to integrate their own development efforts though, VLC media player 4.0 has been in beta for years..

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bitwaba -2 points 3 years ago

Dude should try adding some ads to the program to generate some income to spend on more dev time...

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anarchy79 6 points 3 years ago

Popups, I suggest, bing bar on installation, and it runs as a service, auto-startup (non configurable).

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MrsDoyle 6 points 3 years ago

Why does the UI matter for a video player? It’s not like you’re looking at it when the video is playing. How odd. I’ve been using VLC for years, I like that it doesn’t change. It just cracks on and plays the video, which is what you want in a video player. Isn’t it?

It’s the Tunnock’s Teacake of apps.

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webghost0101 6 points 3 years ago

I rarely ever use vlc but i almost always have it installed just in case something doesn’t work. It has never let me down.

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orientalsniper 4 points 3 years ago

I tried to like MPV, I just can't, potplayer lets me easily customize the subtitles so easily.

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Johanno 2 points 2 years ago

Vlc has many custom ui that you can download. And the current default isn't that bad either.

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dog_ 2 points 3 years ago

I moved away from VLC because compared to MPC-HC, VLC was super slow. If only MPC-HC could come to Linux, that would be amazing.

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anarchy79 2 points 3 years ago

MPC comes with those inexplicable keybindings, and it's a hassle setting them, as far as I remember. Or it lacked some deal breaking customization option for me, some stuff is essential.

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dog_ 1 point 3 years ago

Fair point. It's not for everyone.

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LarmyOfLone 1 point 3 years ago

I got it mostly set up how I was used to. I'd be curious what you are missing?

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anarchy79 1 point 3 years ago

Ease of use, I suppose. I can certainly set it up, but it would be another investment of time. I have a hundred other software that needs similar treatment, so one have to triage, if you know what I mean.

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Smoogs 1 point 3 years ago

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RememberTheApollo_ 94 points 3 years ago

I paid $ as a donation for VLC. For the decades of use I’ve gotten out of it I felt I had to. Same for a couple other useful apps that have been free for a long time or very useful. I wasn’t able to afford much in years past, but now I can chip in. Hope this helps these devs keep the stuff free, nothing much worse than seeing a beloved FOSS close doors on users and demand fees.

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doingless 35 points 3 years ago

I can't afford health care but I appreciate VLC and people who support it. All I can give is a God bless and thank you!

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FlashZordon 75 points 3 years ago

Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.

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SkyezOpen 19 points 3 years ago

I've even seen it on roads. Love that the DOT supports free software.

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pineapplelover 3 points 3 years ago

Damn if dev sold vlc merch I would buy it in a heartbeat

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MeanEYE -25 points 3 years ago

Logo was based on a real thing.

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threelonmusketeers 36 points 3 years ago

c/whoooosh

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AdmiralShat 4 points 3 years ago

Reddit level humor already????

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VinnieFarsheds 6 points 3 years ago

Memes folder/AlwaysHasBeen.jpg

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oatscoop 6 points 3 years ago

We did it, Lemmy!

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youstolemyname 2 points 3 years ago

Where do you think you are?

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UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 1 point 3 years ago

Preuve moi ça

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AgentGrimstone 72 points 3 years ago

Seriously the best player. I've installed it on literally every personal computer I owned. I should make a donation.

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anarchy79 5 points 3 years ago

One of the few I've gone out of my way to donate to. It's them, Internet Archive, Wikipedia and RiffTrax.

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iAvicenna 69 points 3 years ago

lol and people think Andrew "no chin" Tate is alpha. He is not even an epsilon next to this guy (or next to a person randomly drawn from the population for that matter)

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RizzRustbolt 4 points 3 years ago

Tate is a cuniform letter.

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kemsat 62 points 3 years ago

I FUCKIN LOVE THIS MAN, THOUGH I’VE NEVER MET HIM.

WE LIVE IN A FUCKING SOCIETY!

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UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT 8 points 3 years ago

You feel things very deeply my friend. I applaud you

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cupcakezealot 60 points 3 years ago

vlc it really whips the llamas ass

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Usinaru 13 points 3 years ago

Wasn't that for Winamp tho?

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tslnox 3 points 3 years ago

The king is dead; long live the king.

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anarchy79 2 points 3 years ago

Sic transit gloria mundi.

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hakunawazo 13 points 3 years ago

...with a traffic cone

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snausagesinablanket 4 points 3 years ago

really whips the llamas ass

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cupcakezealot 4 points 3 years ago

suddenly im back in uni

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Emerald 1 point 3 years ago

Do you think peta ever used winamp? That would be pretty funny

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noirnws 58 points 3 years ago

Remember to donate to open-source projects!

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LemmyKnowsBest 44 points 3 years ago

😇 He's the opposite of Spez! 😈

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AFC1886VCC 43 points 3 years ago

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sag 37 points 3 years ago

Protect this Man at any cost.

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Crampon 33 points 3 years ago

This post reminded me to support the project.

Donated 15$.

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unexposedhazard 31 points 3 years ago

Its GPL anyways. If he ever does accept, it would be sad but not a catastrophe.

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Album 24 points 3 years ago

Looking forward to VLC 4. It (the beta) can handle playlists that are like 2000-4000 entries long in a second vs VLC3 which has a parser that is slow like molasses.

it's been 2-3 years and my usecase has changed, but it would be great to see this backported to vlc3.

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Kolanaki 6 points 3 years ago

What anime are you watching that requires a playlist that large? I only assume it's an anime because what else could possibly have 2000-4000 episodes?

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Zagorath 20 points 3 years ago

I was assuming audio tracks rather than video.

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Album 10 points 3 years ago

Nah, not anime. It's not playlists of a single thing is all I'll really say about it.

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Kolanaki 10 points 3 years ago

😏

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Honytawk 3 points 3 years ago

Two anime???

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djsoren19 4 points 3 years ago

even anime honestly doesn't typically get that big, I think the only one that maybe gets there is Dragonball? like, all of Dragonball. One Piece will probably end up there, but it just broached the 1000 mark recently.

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Syrc 3 points 3 years ago

Nope, not even Dragon Ball. And I doubt OP Will get there too, it’ll probably be over in less than 10 years.

Only a few all-ages series reached 2000 episodes, like Doraemon or Sazae-san.

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csm10495 23 points 3 years ago

I imagine he always wears this hat in public.

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Agent641 19 points 3 years ago

Thats not a hat thats just how his head is

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moitoi 22 points 3 years ago

Les vrais héros ne portent pas de cape.

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cone_zombie -1 points 3 years ago

Que?

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Pogbom -1 points 3 years ago

Qui*

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letsgo -1 points 3 years ago

Quo+

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ForestOrca 19 points 3 years ago

Thanks Jean-Baptiste!! You and VLC are Awesome!!

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Smoogs 19 points 3 years ago

And a converting tool to boot

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strawberrysocial 13 points 3 years ago

I like his hat

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Pantherina 13 points 3 years ago

Where does this traffic cone come from? And where do I get that hat??

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Anticorp 41 points 3 years ago

Side of the highway. Just grab one from a road construction site. They're free!

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chaogomu 18 points 3 years ago

This is more of a correct answer than you'd think.

https://web.archive.org/...

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alekwithak 9 points 3 years ago

Hey, it's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone.

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peetabix 4 points 3 years ago

Very Little Cone

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Technotica 13 points 3 years ago

Thanks Jean!

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Komatik 12 points 3 years ago

I don't understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply

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runeko 27 points 3 years ago

Buy-outs often come with non-compete clauses.

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zeppo 4 points 3 years ago

It’s open source. Anyone could fork it.

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AVengefulAxolotl 4 points 3 years ago

Yeah, but he has integrity as it seems. He just says no, then there arent any bottom text attached to it. Plus we can see that his intentions are pure, no compromises.

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some_guy 11 points 3 years ago

The hero we need.

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sachamato 6 points 3 years ago

À true hero. Go strong Jean Baptiste !

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eek2121 3 points 3 years ago

Ah, a fellow nerd, I see.

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snue 2 points 2 years ago

Why is their logo a traffic cone ? 😅

I love VLC and use it almost everyday :)

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OpenStars 2 points 3 years ago

Irl saints do exist!? :-D

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GrammatonCleric 2 points 3 years ago

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gimsy 2 points 3 years ago

Thanks to him

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tygerprints 1 point 3 years ago

Now if only Youtube and all the streaming services could follow his example. It's not like they don't already rake in massive $$$ from subscriber fees. And I really don't need to see more ads for cheap viagra pills, if I wanna get it up, I'll just go buy a helium balloon.

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_sideffect 0 points 3 years ago

I'd take the money but use it to help the homeless and such

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dylanTheDeveloper 1 point 3 years ago

I'd buy a lamb chevi

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rmuk 0 points 3 years ago

I'd take the money and use it to fund the most hedonistic and shallow lifestyle possible but I'd keep the software open source.

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jose1324 -3 points 3 years ago

Mpc is better

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PraiseTheSoup 6 points 3 years ago

I just keep them both installed and without any tweaking I can play any filetype in existence, and several that are not.

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fin 3 points 3 years ago

While VLC has a larger community and thus they want to put ads on it, the author rejects to do that. That’s the point of this post.

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i_love_FFT 1 point 3 years ago

They're both free, you don't have to choose and can have them both! Not everything needs to be compared and ranked.

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Dewded 1 point 3 years ago

Isn't MPC dead now?

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feecoomeeq 3 points 3 years ago

There is an updated fork. It also has great support for downloading subtitles - D shortcut

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jose1324 1 point 3 years ago

No

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mavu -8 points 3 years ago

should have taken the money.

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grendel -29 points 3 years ago

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AnUnusualRelic 28 points 3 years ago

It doesn't even have an email client!

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Honytawk 15 points 3 years ago

How can we add AI in some shape or form?

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grendel -1 points 3 years ago

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olutukko 17 points 3 years ago

It's a free software have some respect

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tweeks 8 points 3 years ago

I believe it's open source and considering their cross-platform focus I can imagine they're a bit wary of adding functionality that might break on one of those or requires maintenance.

It's possible to contribute though and seem to require an agreement before merging stuff.

If all else fails you could at least create a fork where you add that basic functionality.

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grendel -11 points 3 years ago

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American_Jesus 4 points 3 years ago

So you're are upset because the software that you didn't need to pay and still using for years don't have a feature that you want

In that case you can always use another software, pay for it and make your demands
https://alternativeto.net/...

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grendel -7 points 3 years ago

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Tristaniopsis 1 point 3 years ago

Stop moaning, you ungrateful shit.

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grendel -2 points 3 years ago

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haui_lemmy 0 points 3 years ago

No, actually there arent. Not with this many features.

Some devs do what the comminity wants, some do what they think is best. Theres no reason to even care about that fact.

Hundreds of people are able and willing to work on FOSS projects. If you make a strong enough case, you can get someone to do it. If you dont want to bother, pay someone to fork it for you.

Literally dozens of possible solutions to this. I would consider staying constructive. That way you might actually get what you want.

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bairy 6 points 3 years ago

Ah come on. Think of all the good free software that sold out. This is a video player that's cross platform, is a simple install with no additional drivers required, and has kept up with video standards as they've progressed over the years. it doesn't have ads or bloatware or "premium" subscription.

Okay dev may have slowed or stopped and that's a shame but we have gotten a damn good deal so far.

And if VLC isn't to your liking there are good alternatives.

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