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Does half of Lemmy come from the same town, or has closed source software poisoned more than one well?
@Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever @V0lD personally, I use systemd timers, in combination with the btrfs tooling to backup certain snapshots of my filesystem, which include game saves. I can't use steam because it's entirely screenreader inaccessible, so I play stuff with retroarch and other emulators, plus the occasional audiogame in wine, and very rarely, native ones, those are so rare.
Yeah, a lot of lemmy users were already into free software as a whole and liked lemmy because it's libre and federated. So it's only natural you see the focus on software freedom everywhere.
I just think that we should strive to use libre alternatives, especially when they are as useful/better than closed source ones.
The philosophical side of free software is much more important to me than anything else. For me, it's not just about using open source software for the sake of it. It's about software freedom.
But I don't go around telling everyone to use open source or die. If you just don't like the libre alternative and prefer using closed source software, whatever. If there isn't a general reason to use a closed source software, I'll just point out the libre alternative (or try to convince that a somewhat inferior libre alternative may not be that bad) :)