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I work for Microsoft. When I had a kid they sent a “care package” with some items. But literally every item had “Microsoft” or “Met Life” (our employee life insurance I think) all over everything.

I ripped the “met life” shirt off of the snoopy plush and trashed everything else.

It’s not just limited to backpacks. They try to turn everything, even a kids blanket, into a fucking ad. It’s so gross.

You can’t send some cheap items to your employee without branding it with an ad.

I don’t work for MetLife. Why the fuck would that even be on there? I guess they want to keep reminding me to get life insurance because I’m a kid. Like, holy fuck, I hate this shit.

Fuck Microsoft. Fuck their support of genocide. I didn’t even choose to work here. They bought my startup company for pennies on the dollar during Covid.

Again, this is by design. The point is GitHub is for developers. If a non developer reaches the page they SHOULD feel a little intimidated. They SHOULD be either forced to read some notes or come back and ask for help (like the commenter did).

This is for their own benefit. Its meant to give people pause about what they are installing or downloading. Since GitHub can host anything. It SHOULD feel different than downloading Discord or some other app.

It is not meant to be a friendly UI that says “Install here!”. It is meant to make the user have some caution over what they are doing.

And, again, it’s designed for developers. Not end users.

I think it’s a good design in some ways and worse in others.

For this case it’s annoying because it’s just a .zip that has the binaries ready to go i assume.

But you really want the focus to be on the README and good install instructions. Especially when the releases are just uncomiled source code (which is common).

So I think GitHub leaves this focus on the README and let’s the dev decide what is the focus of the people visiting.

Yep. And I don’t have to use 10 different video player UIs. I can just use Plex. That lifetime pass from years ago has been worth it. Even if I know people are critical of Plex.

Same but photopea usually replaces Gimp for me now. Works in the browser and is basically Photoshop but without all the automated tools.

That’s likely safe. But…

Most malware isn’t trying to make your computer unusable anymore. That was the old days when people just wanted their “hacking” acknowledged.

You can definitely still be running a crypto miner if you sudo’d something stupid you downloaded on Linux.

He’d probably just upgrade your drivers to the latest stable version for your distro and fix all those W: prints you see whenever a guide tells you to “sudo apt update”.

You know who you are and you’re me.

I hadn’t really thought about it until reading this comment but I am definitely the same. I use to pirate so much software back in the day. But, I really just find myself looking for projects on GitHub that fit my needs.

I pirated a video upscaling program just to test it out. Topaz I think it was. But it was mostly just curiosity because it was very niche in it’s performance improvement over it’s open source alternative video2x.

That’s literally the only software I can remember pirating in the last 10 years.

If it’s good and requires a one time purchase. I buy it. Unraid is obviously going to be an example of that for a lot of people here.

I think I’ve spent more money donating “coffee” to good open source projects though. And going windows free for over 3 years now has been a big part of that. I can’t stand when I have to use Windows now. Work still forces it on me. But I literally only use it to SSH into my redhat VM.

All my piracy is media these days. And that’s only because the streaming services have basically reached the point that cable did back in the late 2000s.

Piracy has always been based on convenience rather than cost for me. “Piracy is a service issue” is the famous quote. Additionally it’s about services not giving you ownership over the thing you purchased. Which is what a lot of software has become.

You’re on a piracy sub mate. I had assumed the point would be to share with others.

Yep. Well said. They don’t need to create a better product. They need to create a new product that marketing can sell.

Bugs are for the users to test.

Doesn’t look like it supports libdvdcss in any way.

Check that library and look for alternatives. dvdbackup is what I used back in the day.

Edit: looks like people still use dvdbackup. Which is open source. Dump the disk with it and then use handbrake.

Though I don’t know if this will be raw video passthrough like MakeMKV. But you probably want to compress it anyway. I don’t know why you’d want to keep a 8GB 1080p video in 2025 with the modern compression we have today. This is why there is CPU intensive stuff happening in handbrake. It’s using modern compression. Do you not want this? Just want to dump the massive files and be done?

Wish I had time to mess around making something like this. There definitely SHOULD be an open source project. These are all very doable things. My guess is it’s just not worth anyone’s effort when MakeMKV or dvdbackup exist.

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He’s working on it. He has to be careful not to accidently forgive the student loans associated with it.

It doesn’t but trying to perfectly time your kids nap to the meeting time (she’s still young and needs at least 2) usually results in a really cracky kid at some point.

Sleep is important and I try not to fuck with it when I can. So doing that when someone just cancels 10 minutes prior is frustrating and usually means I woke her up early from a nap previously to get on a good time sync.

Rescheduling to a different time that day is less bad because I can more easily keep her up another 30-40 minutes depending on the time of the day.

Basically if it’s a completely different day it means she’s cranky back to back days.

The most awkward phase of most of our lives is when you reach that age that you’re too old to like kids movies in a healthy way but also too young to like kids movies in a healthy way.

Like that awkward teen time when you have to pretend to not enjoy a form of entertainment that is essentially universally enjoyed only to prove to people your age that you’re “not a baby”.

Idk if it is still like that. But I remember specifically being that age and my cousin who was like a year older mocked me for liking Elf with Will Farrell. It’s such a weird age.

Though I think this is primarily a part of toxic masculinity. Most girls I knew never had this pressure.

Yeah. I’m with you. Sure some little kids might be afraid of some loud teenagers. But it’s a Minecraft movie. Half the people buying tickets to that shit are doing it specifically to meme. Let the kids be kids.

Actually, i just had a good idea. Restrict the movies age below 15 unless you’ve got a kid under 15 with you. Basically the reverse of an R rating.

Gets rid of most of the cringe 15+ year old that go there to be annoying. Add a separate showing for teens and kids basically.

Actually. This is not a bad idea in general.

They don’t really even “like” them but they’re basically the only thing they do that makes it seem like they do any work.

It’s like grabbing a broom when your boss enters the restaurant. Better to pretend you’re doing something.

Though a lot of them do just like the sound of their own voice.

Not when you’re working from home and being a dad at the same time. Got my kids nap times aligned with meetings. “Oh, sorry to cancel last minute”

Fuck me, I gotta align this shit all over again tomorrow.

Sounds like an anxiety inducing app. And I thought sleep tracking was anxiety inducing. Imagine getting a notification that you might have ass cancer.