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Yeah totally agreed. Especially if it's made by Apple lmfao

Do we get a heads up like "You're about to suddenly wake up a thousand years ago in England good luck!" BOOSH because otherwise it kinda matters exactly where you get dropped. For me it really wouldn't matter much, I'd be dead pretty quick either way but someone with some skills might have a go at it.

I'm terrible too lol I only play on PVE servers. Big update 42 is coming down the pipe soon(ish), might be a good time for you all to pick it back up.

I mean it's a different topic, aside from how a business (for profit or not) takes software (foss or not) and makes money from it. Wikipedia software is used a lot I'm just saying it's not relevant to what I was talking about. Like if companies didn't use this free software for internal documenting they would use something else, no biggie. In the same way that if the worlds largest online encyclopedia no longer had Wikipedia software, they would use something else, no biggie. The word wiki is like the word kleenex and that's great for the founder of wikipedia, maybe? But it's still just tissue paper.

Steam tells me 4 games over 1000 hours. I had 6136 hours in Crusader Kings 2 when I stopped playing in 2020. 1018 in CK3 but I don't play it anymore either. 1132 hours in Project Zomboid. 1210 hours in SCUM. Back in the day I put in a stupid amount of hours in Everquest and WoW though.

Any good alternatives? Everything I found has no content or pretends to have content so I can click the screen 1000 times for them. I took rarbg for granted for so long, I never realized it was in a class of its own.

I guess so. I would really love to see the paid competitor that successfully displaces Wikipedia. It would have to be extremely impressive wouldn't it? Like paradigm shift level impressive. Any startup that currently claims to do it "better" will also need to make it available for free, or instantly fail because of no users ever bothering to sign up.

I guess I just don't get how being open sourced code is really relevant to Wikipedia? The code is not special is it? They don't need donations to pay for elite programmers, it's servers and IT people. The code being open source means that someone else can copy their own Wikipedia if they felt like competing and thought for some reason that they could. The fact that Wikipedia Foundation is non-profit basically precludes this but I think you answered my question basically anyway, they don't rely on only donations.

Wow did not know that about MLK! Very interesting! Yet another reason to admire the man. Cheers.

Yeah it works but Wikipedia is constantly threatening to close up because of lack of donations right? That's a huge fault that persists no matter how well done their fundraising campaign. I wonder are there examples of fundraising where they gather more than enough to foot the bills? Do they expand then like a business would or do they save that excess for next year? I have to assume they'd invest and grow it. Is Wikipedia or lemmy an example of FOSS though? It's not as simple as open sourced software once you put it on the web and build a business behind it. Maybe the bones of it was FOSS but we're passed that point now yeah? Obviously I have more questions than answers, just an interested layman. Cheers.

its sort of depressing that they will rely on donations though. would be nice if there was some way for them to make money without gambling on random ppl

Never paranormal. Everything has an explanation sometimes the explanations are beyond our comprehension and I think that's the tricky little blank spot where people tend to insert whatever the fuck they want in place of the truth. To me being able to admit I will never know certain things is important, I can still keep a open mind while I do that. Basically I'll believe it when I see it and haven't heard a believable ghost story in my 40 years. People get scared and they lock that moment into time and refuse to budge on the fact that the reality may not be exactly how they always remembered it, or something.