• woelkchen@lemmy.world
      10·
      2 months ago

      IMO there is a difference in productivity tools and entertainment. With entertainment products they’re usually consumed and then replaced. Productivity tools you’re stuck with and vendor lock in is a real problem.

      • cloudskater@pawb.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Plus with entertainment stuff they’re usually finished once released (or at least they SHOULD be cough cough game industry). It would be better if every game was open source, especially since there are tons of old games that could do with revamps but are too niche to invest in. If we had the source though, die hard fans would be all over that shit and wouldn’t have to spend years decompiling and romhacking! But that said, creative tools need to he constantly updated and should be open source always in case something goes bad. My ROM of Spyro for the PS1 isn’t changing anytime soon, so while it would be better for the source to be out there, I’m not worried about it suddenly becoming unusable.

  • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    17·
    2 months ago

    Been thinking about upgrading networking at my homelab, I’m this close to surrendering to the siren of Tailscale. Like I’m under no illusion about venture-capital “open-source” but their tools look so good…

    • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
      12·
      2 months ago

      There are self-hosted overlay networks. They may be harder to set up, but you prevent your infrastructure from being reliant on the ticking timebomb that is VC money. I’ve heard about:

      But I’m sure there are others.

        • Mrb2@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          I have been using it for over a year, and it has been working great. I really like it because i can use the official clients which work well.

        • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, I only didn’t mention this because it’s theoretically possible for Tailscale to discontinue support for that and break compatibility in the clients if they decided they want you using their stuff.

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Steam is almost a necessity due to it being hard to get physical copies of games these days. The others I have totally avoided, though. The one I’m having trouble getting away from is Portainer for maintaining Docker Swarms. And I really wish Acrobat was less needed. One of the few things I have to have Windows for is Acrobat Reader so I can fill out documents. Even their website chokes on a lot of forms I’ve needed to fill out lately.