Oh, I forgot that every joke in the universe is supposed to be used just once.

That reminds me of my favorite rock that prevents tiger attacks. I’ve had it with me for years and it works perfectly. Yet, whenever I bring it up, people make fun of me.

audience already agrees that complicity in genocide is an acceptable tradeoff to software freedoms

I talked about that to show one possible counterbalance between liberty and usages which are probably not explicitly wanted by the authors.

Another common example of freedom/restrictions is someone wanting to have their software permissively licensed while also not allowing cloud vendors to resell access to it. That’s how you end up with licenses like Elastic’s.

Or, if you want another example of “free”, look at the distinction between the GPL and the BSD license as it applies to Sony and the Playstation. One of the reason Sony chose BSD for the basis of its gaming system is because the BSD license allows for commercial usage. In that sense it is MORE free than the GPL, which would not allow the type of usage Sony did with the Playstation without conferring more responsibility to Sony, for instance, releasing their source. Under BSD they have no obligation to do so, hence it is more free in that respect.

My whole point is a lot of people say “I want my software to be freely licensed” but they do not realize that they may be unintentionally opening the door to usages of the software that they do not want to see.

One should not pick a license that allows for unfettered usage of the software if you have certain ways you don’t want to see it used.

As a final parting example, look at Prusa and their printers. They release the firmware and designs as open source. They they later get angry when companies clone their designs. This is permissible under the license. This is making Prusa want to lock down their future designs to avoid that usage.

Anyone considering licensing of their own software should think very carefully about what usages they support or object to and license the software accordingly. If you release your software as BSD licensed and some company comes along and makes a billion dollars with it, you aren’t owned a cent under that agreement. If this makes you angry, don’t pick BSD.

Freedom comes with uncomfortable ramifications. This is inescapable. Freedom includes doing things that a given individual isn’t comfortable with. If you’re not happy with this trade-off, don’t use a license that allows “any” usage.

Meanwhile, poor Jellyfin just quietly doing the job.

That doesn’t undermine my point, that proves my point. Making something “FREE” (as in libre) comes with the consequence that people can use it for whatever they want. I assume you don’t agree with bombing Gaza, hence it is a perfect example of “freedom” leading to poor outcomes.

Simply grabbed it, and without contributing anything to the project did nothing except stripped the branding and then go sell it.

Unless this is specifically called out in the license, this is an activity allowed by many permissive open source licenses. If they knew that this type of activity was unwanted initially, then they didn’t choose the proper license.

Easy, because they want the social credibility of being open source, but also later, when the project gets big, they want to dictate exactly who uses it and how.

If you care about how your software is used to this degree – don’t open source it! Every open source package I have ever made has come with a permissive license, because I want people to be able to use it however they wish. That’s actual freedom. Unfortunately, a subset of “however they wish” can also be “used to bomb Gaza”, but that is the cost of liberty and freedom. You have to take the good with the bad.

These “AI Computers” are a solution looking for a problem. The marketing people naming these “AI” computers think that AI is just some magic fairy dust term you can add to a product and it will increase demand.

What’s the “killer features” of these new laptops, and what % price increase is it worth?

The answer is about half of them do and the other half don’t and are there to fleece the first half. You see the same pattern with priests, where some of them are true believers and the rest are just there to devour the flock.

In a crowd of 200 people, you are nearly guaranteed to have a sociopath without any kind of conscience. These people are more or less like sharks and move around and devour those around them without a second thought. It’s a shame, because they are often the limiting factor to scaling any kind of human organization.

So many of the rules and restrictions we have today are due to these people, and sadly, it’s just part of the human condition.

Why is this specific to men? Are women not able to take advantage of these same programs? Are men having job placement issues where women are not?

What is the root cause of this? Since jobs and people have both existed for a looooooong time, I doubt this latest generation was just born lazy. What’s the behind the scenes info here?

If you want to save your friends, solve my maze!

Great point!

I thought it was HP inkjet printer cartridges? I think that’s around $60 trillion per gram, isn’t it?

They pushed em all right. It was too many different things in too short of a period. SEGA is now a shell of its former self, mostly chucking the name on things for some cash.

Thanks for the tip on the sample rate! I did not think to try that. I will try the GX core tonight and make sure the sample rate is set accordingly. Maybe it will finally change my mind about the Genesis’ audio!

I gave it a listen. I think the Model 2 is my favorite. To my ears it sounds the least grating and ‘metallic’. I don’t know why, but I get a metallic style feel from a lot of the Genesis sound. I guess it’s something associated with FM synth?

I think the other thing that holds me back is when they try to use samples on the Genesis they sound EXTREMELY tinny, and the SNES was actually pretty good at that. I think it’s basically the SNES that ruined the Genesis audio for me. I compare them quite frequently. If the Genesis had launched alone in the USA, I think I’d just chalk that up to what 16 bit platforms sounded like.

I gotta toss in that I actually really like the PC Engine/TG16 sound, but it may or may not count as a 16 bit console, depending how you feel about it.

I have tried various low-pass filters, but I think the buttery smooth audio of the SNES has spoiled me. It’s a shame because the Genesis library has a lot of really impressive stuff.

Nintendo’s way is to get last-gen hardware and add some kind of tweak to it and then just have a solid game library. They are almost never cutting edge. Even the new Switch2 is not a cutting edge SOC.

If anything, this experimentation was the problem. Look back to when the SegaCD/32X/Saturn were all around. No one knew what to buy and Sega didn’t make it very clear either. They were split waaaay too much.