Maybe because VLC is actually useful
Unlike Microslop Outlook, there’s a program that doesn’t break when you lose internet connection.
The asshats for some reason felt that they needed to reinvent it as basically a web app and it’s broken in so many ways, and I think it’s lost feature parity with mobile and Mac instead of gaining. Sheer incompetence.
Can’t wait for the day Satya Nadella gets fired, hopefully it will happen when the AI bubble bursts
Don’t you kinda need internet for an email app?
No, given that one of the points of Outlook (and most email apps) is to store a local archive that can be read even when offline.
I found the most useful Outlook was '97. Just did everything I needed. Wasn’t overly technical. No AI!
No encryption, probably running SMTP, no spoofing prevention, no compatibility with modern protocols, could it even handle files bigger than 2Mb?
But did we need all that back then?
Email is older than the internet.
Anyway, no, you don’t need internet for the modern version we have today either. You only need it for a few moments.
Some people are being a bit pedantic about not technically needing the internet for email, and that’s true, but the pedantry is hiding the fact that actually email is really cool in how it exists in whatever form we want it to be in! It can be transmitted over internet, or over bare TCP/IP, or even peer-to-peer. Most applications don’t take advantage of how versatile email really is.
Of course, Micro$oft makes it rely on an always-on internet connection because it’s better for their bottom line.
IPoAC is my personal favorite
It is the year 2,002,026.
Humanity has conquered capitalism and moved off of Earth. Disease and accidental death have been eradicated. We’ve invented marvelous and miraculous technologies and used them to catapult ourselves to distant worlds.
It’s an open question whether or not our descendants can rightly call themselves “human” anymore, and indeed some on far-flung planets do not.
On the planet Seffi, which we call Kepler-725c, one of those human descendants watches the end of a two-dimensional audiovisual narrative, a recent fad on the planet. They aren’t watching it on a computer, per se, but on a holographic mesh device operating across a distributed cluster of nanomachines. The human descendant telepathically interfaced with it to launch the application and the narrative, and now xe marvels at how immersive and compelling the narrative was, despite being contained as it was within a two-dimensional non-interactive form.
A list of people who contributed to the construction of the narrative concludes its display, and the holomesh reverts to a waiting state, displaying a simple black panel within a white frame. And within that black panel, a small, orange-and-white triangle sits, perfectly centered. The human descendant doesn’t know what it originally represented, and muses briefly about it before deactivating the holomesh and walking out of xeir home to enjoy the sunset beneath the purple-blue trees.
I pulled this off reddit. I know that’s gross, but this was too good not to share.
Think of it this way:
Every time you steal from Reddit, you’re saving thousands of Lemmy folks a visit there, and Spez loses more traffic.
Keep doing it.
IMO reposting from larger sites is a very good thing. The main advantage that larger platforms have is the amount of content. If all the good stuff ends up here anyway then it makes it easier to switch for those who haven’t due to the lack of content.
Thanks for your transparency.
America and Americans plastering their flag and “fuck yuuuuh, 'Muricuh!!” on every possible square centimeter (not even gonna use imperial as a reference) never stops being one of the most cringe and constantly proven stereotypes of all time. I have this game where if youtube recommends a channel I haven’t seen before and it’s an American channel, I count the minutes until the US flag shows up in any way. It’s VERY rarely more than one video, no matter the length of videos that channel generally makes. The worst thing is when you find a channel you like and don’t think about it, it’s just people making videos about stuff they’re interested in, then they swivel the camera around and have an American flag the size of the fucking moon hanging on their wall. It’s so fucking weird, off putting, brainwashed and deeply stupid.
IDK what’s sadder, your ability to troll or the fact that it took you effort to type out all that garbage nobody read.
Nobody is trolling. Fuck Americans and our pitiful flag worship.
Somehow I feel more “represented” by VLC than I do by any of the astronauts.
I wonder why…
VLC: a free and open source video player meant to be used by literally everyone.
Astronauts: a select few chosen people with little to no health problems, in top physical and mental form one could only dream of having.
I think the Simpsons were on to something when they sent Homer to space.If only they had such high standards for the presidency
And VLC is still on Xitter.