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Getting a 404 on that.

I find 95% of foss software to be better than the commercial alternatives, and I'm not joking. As for bugs, foss devs are usually faster to respond to bug reports and user requests too, unless it's some mismanaged behemoth like Mozilla.

Thing is, commercial software can use the money for advertising and marketing. Foss, especially of the free to use kind, usually only spread by word of mouth, and even that only within the foss communities at first.

Let's not get into examples, because I'm sure we can always find examples for every case and it often comes to specific preferences. My general point is, that people who think free has to be crap, and commercial has to be good, are categorically wrong.

It's in fact backwards: if you do something only for money, you're incentivized to do the least amount of work either for maximum effectiveness or to give yourself time to do stuff you actually want to do.

It seems like most FOSS I've seen is a free, buggy, alternative to mainstream software, which resolves a problem the user had.

I don't know what kind of sw you use, but usually I find Foss software to be sleek, functional, fast with good support and updates, while commercial software is ridden with ads, trackers, bloat and bugs. Exceptions on both sides but the notion that free software is generally worse is categorically incorrect.

Everyone can contribute, but how do they make a living?

So first not everyone can contribute. Usually people who also use the software and have personal (or monetary) interest in it, contribute.

And why does everything has to be about monetisation? Yes, both people and gigantic corporations make money off foss in various ways, I'm sure others have explained that already. But people also do things for other reasons than just money.

But I'm just baffled how people so often declare that foss can't work or that it's qualitatively worse, even though the entire planet has been dependent on foss for decades.

No, just because someone sells something directly, doesn't mean it's inherently better.

I'd guess different setups both of the phones and accounts. For example if one has enabled Google location in settings, and stuff like location sharing isn't disabled, the phone will be pinged much more often. Same if you have office documents on cloud, synchronisation with phone book and stuff like that.

And yea it makes sense that an account that's more active is of more interest to ping more regularly. Maybe also for security too. Tho I don't know if it has to be an actual conscious decision by the designers of the systems or just some AI algorithms doing it.

I wouldn't be so stoked about it. Retail chains use alp kinds of dirty tactics to get products cheaper, this is probably one of them.

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Not saying it's bad, I'm sure it holds up okay as it's a good game, I just think you can't enjoy the environment and atmosphere as much.

Ugh, flashbacks to KDE 4...

I only really watch foss stuff, which should be exciting, but I get tired as it's always much of the same news:

• a new private messenger (like we don't have 500 of those already)
• a new app/program/distro that does the same thing as 10 other ones
• a "simple" app/program that doesn't do much of anything, just like 10 other ones of the same kind, will get 3 updates and then die
• something for the terminal for terminal nerds that could really use a gui but shutup you dirty normie
• a library that sounds cool but nobody except maybe some corporation will ever use it
• announcement of a complete rewrite, which means we'll never hear of the project again

So I'm not exactly thrilled about anything either, tho for every different reasons