Open source is the modern marvel that nobody talks about. Like the industrial revolution or the building of the pyramids. I know it’s preaching to the choir on lemmy. Open source made the 21st century digital revolution.
Sometimes I wonder how much the average person can comprehend the scale of what has been accomplished over the past few decades. I’m sure they attribute it to the power of the corporations’ drive for profit. None of that would have happened without the combined effort of people around the world building out one software library or application at a time. There’s a behemoth underneath the shiny corporate tech products that is the real achievement.
Some say, born to late to yadda born to soon to whatever. Guy, we have lived in very interesting times. You just haven’t been looking. We’ve lived through the middle of something incredible. I’m sure Jim Ramses was super annoyed at another brick to haul back in 10000BC so the pharaoh can have his stupid tomb or whatever. He wasn’t thinking, they’re going to be nuts over this stuff in a few millennia.
That being said, I think open source is facing existential trials in the near future.
The OS level features on my Samsung TV from 2014 died a few years ago. From what it appears the storage is worn out or something. The OS menu and apps work, but it runs so slow. It started taking forever to add or delete an app. Eventually it got to a point where none of that works anymore, until probably some watchdog triggers a front end UI restart. Good thing the smart features aren’t critical to the basic TV being operational.
The thing is I rarely ever used the smart stuff. For the first few years I had it connected to wifi and used a few apps out of curiosity. For several years it was connected but not used. At some point I disconnected wifi, and left it that way. When I tried it again years later, I discovered the system was dead like that.
Also fuck all those tech bros who came out in the comments every time lying their ass off about how this level of spying is impossible because reasons. And calling everyone paranoid and too stupid to understand technology.