As someone who works in retail, the thing that pisses me off frankly isn't so much the stupid questions (though yes those are annoying af), it's the fact that most of the time customers don't even attempt to figure it out before asking. A question pops into their head and they immediately ask someone. Maybe they should try to use that brain inside of their head before bothering a severely underpaid & overworked retail worker who can barely afford food on the table before asking such an inane question.

Stupid questions don't bother me as much when I can be assured they who are asking them at least made an attempt to figure it out on their own first.

It also doesn't help when I'm asked the same question fifteen times in a single shift. (No, I'm not exaggerating.)

2mo ago

Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps?

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

Some asshole downvoted you, so I gave you an upvote because there's nothing wrong with admitting you don't know something. Welcome to today's 10 000! ^_^

As for your question, a nonprofit cannot make profit and has to work toward a societal good, while a not-for-profit also cannot make profit but is not bound to that obligation.

From this article:

While all types of nonprofit organizations share the common goal of not pursuing profits, their legal and operational characteristics can differ:
Mission: Nonprofit organizations are required to benefit the public or advance a social cause. Not-for-profit organizations, or “other nonprofits” as the IRS deems them, can also benefit the public or they may focus solely on benefiting their members.
Scale: Nonprofits are typically larger organizations that aim to fulfill a larger need, such as the American Red Cross, while not-for-profits (or “other nonprofits”) are often smaller, serving only their members, such as a social club.\
Revenue Sources: The revenue of a nonprofit organization primarily comes from donations, grants and memberships. The revenue of a not-for-profit organization (e.g., a social welfare organization, civic league, social club, labor organization, veterans’ club or business league) is mostly derived from sales and membership dues.\
Tax-Exempt Status: Nonprofits are often granted tax-exempt status under section 501(c)(3), while not-for-profits (or “other nonprofits” as the IRS calls them) can be tax-exempt under other 501(c) sections.

This is, perhaps to needless to say, a US-specific distinction and may be different or even nonexistent in other countries. :)

Cheers! <3

2mo ago

Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps?

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

No problem! ^_^

2mo ago

Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps?

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

Haha, no worries. Glad I could help! ^_^

2mo ago

Is there a FOSS version of Waze or Google Maps?

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

It's recommended to use CoMaps as that is the more-ethical successor to Organic Maps. (If you're not aware, there was a problem with Organic Maps being very...non-transparent should I say, and people got fed up with it and forked the project with the intent of establishing a successor app but that was more dedicated to transparency in decision-making.

2mo ago

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

company or organization that's not comically evil

In a capitalist system? Good luck with that.

A nonprofit organization, sure, but definitely not a company or a not-for-profit organization.

2mo ago

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

Yeah this was I think a few months ago so they very well might have fixed that issue. Haha.

2mo ago

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

Lol, I like that last sentence.

Hehe.

2mo ago

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 2mo ago

Not necessarily.

I've had a couple instances where a game would run in Wine but not in Proton or even GE-Proton.

It was Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Lol. In Proton (or GE-Proton), the game would run but it wouldn't save games, not even autosaves. But I played it using Wine and it worked totally fine.

My point is it's very rare but it can happen.

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Oh, of course, I was never denying that.

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Sure, just as we have small independent email instances. But by and large the vast supermajority belong to a few large players.

I have no doubt the same will happen to the Fediverse.

Capitalism ruins everything in the end.

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

I'm lost.

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EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted @lemmy.blahaj.zone 3mo ago

Oh good gods I hope not. That kind of popularity is what killed Reddit.

Getting hugely popular --> Higher server costs --> Increased temptation towards profit-seeking

Sure, the whole of Lemmy wouldn't privatize (at least at first), but what would likely happen is just as what has happened over the last 20 years with email: a few instances gets most of the traffic over the course of a decade or two, meaning small, independent instances won't be able to compete.

Sure, their hosting ability ("users/dollar", if you will) would plateau, but as more and more people join the big instances (think lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and so forth), the percentage of the Fediverse going to small, independent instances would increasingly get smaller, until we end up a corporatized federated Web to match our corporatized unitary Web.