SafetyGoggles

Right? Elitism in this thread is strong. I have never been in a situation where I NEED to use 7z instead of zip.

That's what different instances are for, although a lot of big instances do this kind of blanket ban. Maybe you just have to run your own instance.

Sync for Reddit and Sync for Lemmy are separate, so the license and all don't transfer. You'll see ads sooner or later if you didn't do anything to block it.

Although I do not agree with your opinion above, but I think your opinion is valid and you don't deserve the downvotes.

My opinion is that Sync and Lemmy are two different things with two different philosophies. Yes they are interconnected, but they are both separate entities, and it's not like Sync is built off of Lemmy's source code. The dev should get compensated for the time and resources he put into the source code of Sync, and if ads is a way to contribute to that, then so be it.

Uhm, then don't pay? No one is forcing you to pay or even use Sync. I don't think it's worth it for me too at this moment to pay that much for an app to browse Lemmy (because in my opinion it's still riding the hype train, it's long term future is still to be determined). So I accept that I will have to see ads.

Sync is an app by a private developer, who has his own rights to set the price for something he produced. He can put the price at 100€ and still no one has the right to whine about it. If you think it's not worth it, then don't buy it. It's not like you need this to survive.

What the fuck are you talking about? When did he ask you to pay anything before the app is released?

Yes. As with all too good to be true things, even if it's true, people will abuse it and force to be not true anymore.

or use patched third party clients

That's not Lidarr's fault though. Lidarr gets the data from MusicBrainz, and MusicBrainz is very community driven. So if no one adds data to it, they won't have the data automatically.

Also, the music piracy scene is just not as standardised as movie and TV shows. It's hard to automate when every releaser uses different naming format.

There's a reason why they insist that you all get MATLAB, and it's because of compatibility. Like you've mentioned in your story, there's one function that wasn't working on Octave. If they don't standardise and let every student decide themselves which software they want to use, every different software will probably have different incompatibility and different functions will be broken on different software and a lot of resources would need to be spent on debugging for all the different softwares out there.

There's no reason that standard should be MATLAB though.