Honestly the base price of Macbooks has stayed right around $1000 for the past TWENTY YEARS. So the price has kind of gone down if you take inflation into account.....
The cost of the higher end models, however, has gone up.
Don't equate the two terms; they're not the same. You can argue that they should be the same, but unfortunately it's too late. Words are all made up and they mean what people decide they mean. In this case, "open source" means that the source is open, and nothing more.
Uhhhhh I also disagree with @MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works, but I want to make clear that it's for different reasons and I'm not associated with this moron.
That is a definition proposed in 2006 by one organization (The Open Source Initiative) that has little authority on the matter. Open source software in various forms existed LONG before 2006, so unfortunately they can't retcon what it has always meant. Here's some light reading on the subject, courtesy of Richard Stallman: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
tl;dr: Don't say "open source" if you really mean FOSS.
This is the "Open Source" community, not the "FOSS" community. If you're going to hang around here, you should familiarize yourself with the difference between the two.
It is absolutely open source, simply because the definition of "open source" is vague and poorly defined. That's why we have stricter definitions, like FOSS, and this is definitely not FOSS. They're pretty transparent about that, and they made their reasons clear, whether you like them or not. But GrayJay's source is open; you can audit it, download it, and even compile it yourself if you want. So please don't say it's "not really open source" because that's false.
Sure, but if you're spending a thousand dollars or more on hardware, you might as well get a Mac or PC that can run more apps. That's the reason people buy the shitty sub-$500 ones: because it ain't worth a thousand dollars if you can't run (insert industry-specific app here).
We're CLOSE to the future you envision, where everything is just a SaaS browser-based tool. But I don't think we're there yet, there are just too many exceptions for most businesses to go all-in on Chromebooks. I work for an MSP with a relatively diverse clientele (Mac and PC), and schools are the ONLY clients that use Chromebooks.
Holy shit this is great. So it's not FOSS, but it is OSS. And they're not forcing you to pay, they're just asking, without DRM or anything.
I installed it, hooked up my YouTube and Nebula accounts, and it works fine. It's a LOT more stable than I expected. Odyssee works too, and no crashes yet. I immediately paid the $10 for a license. I love the stuff Louis does, and I'm absolutely willing to fund it.
LMAO I made the child mad. And yet he still only (sort of) gave me a single example that I'm sure he came up with after furiously googling "stl torrent tracker 2023"
So much for all those huge, popular STL trackers that I'm sure definitely exist.... Maybe they're on the dark web and we're all just too stupid to find them.
there are a number of trackers that specialize in exactly what OP is asking for
Please, share these numerous trackers with the class. What I said was "big central repositories" don't exist because people aren't really interested. A telegram group is not a big central repository, my dude.
I know it's repetitive, but DON'T MICROWAVE PLASTIC.
If your frozen food comes in plastic containers, please remove it before microwaving. We've always known that microwaving plastic is bad, but there are some very concerning recent studies and we're learning more about how bad it really is.
I think what you're asking for (a big repository of pirated STLs) doesn't exist because it isn't really necessary or desirable.
There are a LOT of free models out there. Thingiverse, Printables, Thangs, etc. You really don't need to buy models if you don't want to.
Most of the owners of paid models are just random nerds, not the huge mega corporations that own movies and TV shows. And the printing community is very small and supportive, so the general sentiment is that if a model isn't free, it's probably worth paying for.
Are the domains properly registered to an active email address? If your domains were actually desirable, you probably would have gotten offers already.
Edit: To be clear, you don't actually "own" your domains; you're just leasing them like an apartment. So all the money that you've put into them over the years is probably gone. And you'll only get paid for a domain you're squatting on if somebody else REALLY wants it.
What you're proposing is definitely possible, but I don't see it happening any time soon. Partially because people just aren't interested in going there, and partly because Chromebook hardware tends to suck. Also, Chrome is bloated as hell on its own, you need at least 16GB of RAM to open up more than a handful of tabs 😆.
Plus, Chromebooks have ALREADY been around long enough for this to happen. The first Chromebook was sold in 2011! And in the 12 years since, Chromebooks have dominated the middle school market, of course. But they've managed to take approximately 0% of the market in the professional space. Even college kids don't use Chromebooks, it's all Macs and PCs.
At this moment, Chromebooks are for middle school kids, and also sometimes for casual home users. Not saying they can never be anything else, but that's the current reality.
I'd argue that ChromeOS only succeeds at funneling kids into Google's browser products, not keeping them in ChromeOS. Because you can get basically the same experience on any PC, whether it's running Windows, MacOS, or Linux.
Once kids grow up and get a job, they run into the limitations of ChromeOS pretty fast and swap to something with a real OS. Unless they're at a company that exclusively uses browser-based tools without any desktop apps or plugins, which is pretty rare IMO.
PeachMan @ PeachMan @lemmy.world Posts 0Comments 418Joined 2 yr. ago
Same for Macs. They technically support zipping and unzipping, they're just bad at it. It's so stupid.