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9 hours agoI know right, there’s a lot of backstory and some ‘you had to be there’ for this one, but I appreciate it.
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3·14 hours agoIt feels weird, but I’m told that’s the norm outside the US. It kind of makes sense from a plumbing perspective.
22·1 day agoVLC has over 6 billion downloads, obviously there are people who downloaded it multiple times, but that’s getting close to averaging one per person in existence.
6 billion download announcement (eventually leads to X/twitter): https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/vlc-tops-6-billion-downloads-previews-ai-generated-subtitles/#%3A~%3Atext=VLC+media+player%2C+the+popular%2Can+AI-powered+subtitle+system.
Not directly comparable, but guesses at the number of Linux servers out there are in the 10s-100s of millions.
It’s an arguable point, but unless you get weird with what you quantify as Linux, I think VLC might honestly have more users.
Until this situation, I would have been with you, but I think China might have realized that if they play their cards right there’s a world where they just control Russia some day. If things get especially rough, I think China might play neutral.