How do you know what their consumption habits are?
And the mountain of slop provides a way for those who can’t buy several different consoles, to play the games for those consoles. Emulators exist too, sure, but they’re also far from perfect and require a much beefier machine usually. My Gameboy Advance emulator runs fine on my iPhone. Yuzu was having trouble on a fairly modern PC a few years ago and it’s not even emulating a new console by any means.
It’s quite the opposite though. People are demanding open-source devs to toil away for free because using the thing that can automate a bunch of work is bad.
A more apt comparison would be:
Tractors put people out of work so we shouldn’t buy produce from farms that use them, BUT we also don’t want to pay extra despite the fact that these farms require more labour to produce the same amount of crops.
You’re always free to start your own tractorless farm and you’ll see how many people are willing to pay extra just for not having a tractor involved versus how many people would prefer things to be cheaper.
Maybe not a perfect analogy because food is essential, but it kinda shows how annoying the people that demand their completely free software is handwritten seem.
Go donate a couple grand a month to a project you truly care about and maybe the dev can afford to work on it full time instead of using LLMs to build the things they want to exist.
I should also mention that whatever device you’re posting from, likely benefits from slave labour somewhere in the supply chain, as do many other goods in our lives. Living in the west, most of us benefit from some form of slavery or another happening somewhere we don’t care about because it’s out of sight. It’s quite unfortunate. Comparing LLM usage to actual fucking slavery is WILD to me though.
But that’s what this is. “Waah waah nobody spent thousands of hours to bring me this free thing”. It’s always been a pain point with FOSS but now people are getting especially pissy that they’re not getting more for free.
How do you know what their consumption habits are?
And the mountain of slop provides a way for those who can’t buy several different consoles, to play the games for those consoles. Emulators exist too, sure, but they’re also far from perfect and require a much beefier machine usually. My Gameboy Advance emulator runs fine on my iPhone. Yuzu was having trouble on a fairly modern PC a few years ago and it’s not even emulating a new console by any means.
“They are (free to)!”
Slave labour provides cheap chocolate for those who can't afford to purchase their optional chocolate ethicallytype argumentFair, misunderstood the “they are”.
It’s quite the opposite though. People are demanding open-source devs to toil away for free because using the thing that can automate a bunch of work is bad.
A more apt comparison would be:
Tractors put people out of work so we shouldn’t buy produce from farms that use them, BUT we also don’t want to pay extra despite the fact that these farms require more labour to produce the same amount of crops.
You’re always free to start your own tractorless farm and you’ll see how many people are willing to pay extra just for not having a tractor involved versus how many people would prefer things to be cheaper.
Maybe not a perfect analogy because food is essential, but it kinda shows how annoying the people that demand their completely free software is handwritten seem.
Go donate a couple grand a month to a project you truly care about and maybe the dev can afford to work on it full time instead of using LLMs to build the things they want to exist.
I should also mention that whatever device you’re posting from, likely benefits from slave labour somewhere in the supply chain, as do many other goods in our lives. Living in the west, most of us benefit from some form of slavery or another happening somewhere we don’t care about because it’s out of sight. It’s quite unfortunate. Comparing LLM usage to actual fucking slavery is WILD to me though.
Sheeeesh. Lotta assuming and projecting. I’m gonna go ahead and disengage, have a good one!
But that’s what this is. “Waah waah nobody spent thousands of hours to bring me this free thing”. It’s always been a pain point with FOSS but now people are getting especially pissy that they’re not getting more for free.
You are entitled to believe that! Have a good one!
And you’re entitled to believe people need to labour for you for free. Have a good one!
Nobody needs to anything, but I do wish you would respect my request to disengage instead of taking shitty little jabs at me as I wish you well.