I imagine he always wears this hat in public.
Lol they made the VLC logo a real thing.
I FUCKIN LOVE THIS MAN, THOUGH I’VE NEVER MET HIM.
WE LIVE IN A FUCKING SOCIETY!
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.
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.
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.
Which is exactly why Capitalism keeps us barely holding on, by design.
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.
And that’s why your picture isn’t on the front page of Lemmy 2day!
Who needs a reputation when you have money ! I’d do the same , hopefully he is atleast not broke.
Well, with enough money you can buy a better reputation!
I like his hat
This post reminded me to support the project.
Donated 15$.
VLC is a genuinely great piece of software.
Seriously the best player. I’ve installed it on literally every personal computer I owned. I should make a donation.
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)
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
I don’t understand why not take the money and make a new kind of vlc just a little different to comply
Yeah, but he has integrity as it seems. He just says no, then there arent any bottom text attached to it. Plus we can see that his intentions are pure, no compromises.
Buy-outs often come with non-compete clauses.
Mpc is better
While VLC has a larger community and thus they want to put ads on it, the author rejects to do that. That’s the point of this post.
They’re both free, you don’t have to choose and can have them both! Not everything needs to be compared and ranked.
should have taken the money.
