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Cake day: January 26th, 2025

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  • Not here to downvote. But I will say there is some good changes as of the past five years.

    From a personal perspective: there’s a lot of GOOD open-source software that has great user experiences. VLC. Bitwarden. OBS. Joplin. Jitsi.

    Even WordPress (the new Blocks editor not the ugly classic stuff) in the past decade has a lot of thought and design for end users.

    For all the GIMP/Libre office software that just has backwards ass choices for UX, or those random terminal apps that require understanding the command line – they seem to be the ones everyone complains about and imprinted as “the face of open-source”. Which is a shame.

    There’s so much good open-source projects that really do focus on the casual non technical end user.







  • I want this to work. NYC is massive and has a lot of money. But it only works with a strong arm, because individual greedy fucks always ruin things. Like if a distributor wants to monopolize specific products and forces NYC to pay higher than average prices. Or some shitty politician wants bribes to get the expensive product over the cheaper alternative.

    Costco does show that it works.

    They have such an efficient system to transport goods from their warehouses to customers, and can enforce pricing on the goods they buy at scale. Everyone has to play by Costco’s rules, and consumers get a lot of savings (and appreciation) of the brand.