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[-] De_Narm@lemmy.world 180 points 10 months ago

Gonna be real honest here, I would have taken that in a heartbeat. It's an open source project, I could disappear with my money and the project could be continued from a different fork without ads. The only thing you're really sacrificing is your reputation and with enough money I don't care.

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 150 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

and with enough money I don't care.

Most people are like you.

Which is precisely why humanity will be just another of many dead end evolutionary cul-de-sacs in Earth's natural history.

I've come to peace with that, but this is a nice microcosm of the core reason. We can do better, we know better, but at the end of the day, almost all of us will just take the animalistic dopamine rush of winning.

Live together or die alone. We choose the second one like breathing.

If most humans were like Kempf (we're not), we'd actually have a chance.

[-] MirthfulAlembic@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago

I don't think this hypothetical is about winning so much as never having to worry about your needs being met again. The calculus changes completely for a lot of people (not optimistic enough to say most) if that's not part of the equation.

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

Which is exactly why Capitalism keeps us barely holding on, by design.

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[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Right, but at cost to others, and attempting to minimize the cost to others trying to rationalize it. That's the point. Call it winning, call it succeeding, call it whatever you like, its me over us. The idea of accepting your benefit at the loss of numerous others tears people en masse down. Maybe another branch would become as popular, maybe not, but such choices are presented frequently in our civilization, and the choice is usually to take the win at other's expense.

Regardless, we are what we are and on a long enough time scale what we are will destroy us. That's not as sad to me as all the other creatures we'll take with us, but even we won't be able to sterilize all terran life, so the Earth will recover from us. Life will go on after we successfully fuck ourselves trying to fuck one another. I find solace in that.

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 67 points 10 months ago

And that's why your picture isn't on the front page of Lemmy 2day!

[-] KrankyKong@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

I think I would manage.

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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 42 points 10 months ago

Almost the best of both worlds right?

Creator gets a huge payout, well deserved. Users install VLC, see ads, exit, search web for “VLC ads”, see the fork, re-install having wasted 2-3 minutes total. Eventually “VLC Origin” is the only one anybody talks about.

Those who can stomach ads don’t bother finding the ad-free version, and still use great software. Even the advertisers win.

(This assumes no abusive telemetry / spyware.)

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[-] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 102 points 10 months ago

I moved away from VLC because of the somewhat boring UI. Then I used potplayer, then I discovered MPV - which is awesome because it's so performant you can easily customize it.

But I think VLC helped pioneer the library that allows decoding and playing videos without the mess that were video codec drivers on desktop.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

If I try to play 3 random videos in VLC, they all three will play perfectly. If I try those same three on anything else, at least one of them will be buggy in some way.

Yes you can argue there could be encoding problems in the video file of that buggy one, but somehow VLC just always works. Shit's unbelievably good, so I won't be switching.

[-] DrMango@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I remember the first time I encountered the Ogg Vorbis (.ogg) media type which ultimately lead me to downloading VLC as it was the only player that could handle it at the time

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[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

MPC-HC and MPV both rock, but VLC will always stay on all my machines because any time I have a problem with a video file, VLC opens that shit no issue.

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[-] KingRandomGuy@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

As of right now VLC also doesn't properly support Wayland, but MPV does. It's a great piece of software!

Agree on the sentiment about VLC though, having an open source project demonstrate what is possible and stand the test of time definitely paves the way for future work and improvements.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago

I paid $ as a donation for VLC. For the decades of use I’ve gotten out of it I felt I had to. Same for a couple other useful apps that have been free for a long time or very useful. I wasn’t able to afford much in years past, but now I can chip in. Hope this helps these devs keep the stuff free, nothing much worse than seeing a beloved FOSS close doors on users and demand fees.

[-] doingless@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

I can't afford health care but I appreciate VLC and people who support it. All I can give is a God bless and thank you!

[-] FlashZordon@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I've even seen it on roads. Love that the DOT supports free software.

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Seriously the best player. I've installed it on literally every personal computer I owned. I should make a donation.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 60 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

lol and people think Andrew "no chin" Tate is alpha. He is not even an epsilon next to this guy (or next to a person randomly drawn from the population for that matter)

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 10 months ago

vlc it really whips the llamas ass

[-] Usinaru@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Wasn't that for Winamp tho?

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[-] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

...with a traffic cone

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[-] kemsat@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I FUCKIN LOVE THIS MAN, THOUGH I’VE NEVER MET HIM.

WE LIVE IN A FUCKING SOCIETY!

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[-] noirnws@lemm.ee 48 points 10 months ago

Remember to donate to open-source projects!

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 43 points 10 months ago

😇 He's the opposite of Spez! 😈

[-] sag@lemm.ee 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Protect this Man at any cost.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 10 months ago

Its GPL anyways. If he ever does accept, it would be sad but not a catastrophe.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 25 points 10 months ago

VLC is a genuinely great piece of software.

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Looking forward to VLC 4. It (the beta) can handle playlists that are like 2000-4000 entries long in a second vs VLC3 which has a parser that is slow like molasses.

it's been 2-3 years and my usecase has changed, but it would be great to see this backported to vlc3.

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[-] moitoi@feddit.de 20 points 10 months ago

Les vrais héros ne portent pas de cape.

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[-] ForestOrca@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago

Thanks Jean-Baptiste!! You and VLC are Awesome!!

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

And a converting tool to boot

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 13 points 10 months ago

Where does this traffic cone come from? And where do I get that hat??

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Side of the highway. Just grab one from a road construction site. They're free!

[-] alekwithak@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hey, it's not a good night unless you get a traffic cone.

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[-] some_guy 12 points 10 months ago

The hero we need.

[-] Technotica@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Thanks Jean!

[-] Komatik@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I don't understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply

[-] runeko@programming.dev 13 points 10 months ago

Buy-outs often come with non-compete clauses.

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