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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Because otherwise you need to maintain it on everyone of your computers and phone and everytime you wipe them and in every virtual machine you make and the developpers would need to maintain a version for every operating system that exists and they always forget to make a version for BeOS so that sucks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I'm genuinely confused about the use cases you all seem to have. When are you sitting in a field on your phone trying desperately to convert a .avi to a .mkv?

For desktops you just need to have ffmpeg or handbrake or ImageMagick installed - there's nothing to "maintain". Image conversion is as simple as convert test.jpg test.png.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I’m genuinely confused about the use cases you all seem to have. When are you sitting in a field on your phone trying desperately to convert a .avi to a .mkv?

I worked IT for a newspaper back when they were more relevant. The satelite offices and in-field work had a surprising amount of problems like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

Yeah, I could see that.