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You must hate VLC on Dec 25.

Anthony-G 2y ago
A few years ago, I was suprised to discover that lots of people actually do hate VLC at this most wonderful time of year. Only two of the top 10 search results are broadly positive about this feature: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=vlc+santa+hat+&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=vlc+santa+hat+&ia=web And in a VideoLAN forum thread, at least one user was willing to recompile the source in order to remove the objectionable icon (presumably before it became a configurable option in the application settings): https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=53998 https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=53998
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- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
  Some people have a visceral hatred of Christmas due to its heritage. GP appears to only hate easter eggs. A good thing it is open source and one can modify if they wish. I wish I had the skills to remove the things I hate.
  - foobarian 2y ago
    It's open source and we mold it to the way we like it! Right? One time I decided I would like my workstation login prompt to work like the Monty Python bridge of death and print "what is thy name" etc. instead of the usual login:. Tracking down where exactly this string was turned out to be really hard, I don't even remember exactly but somewhere in PAM source code? Anyway after that I became less quick to tell people "just change the source!"
snvzz 2y ago
I do not celebrate xmas, or engage in religion. It'd annoy me for sure. Fortunately, I run mpv.
- skeaker 2y ago
  Not engaging with it I would understand, but being annoyed by it is Grinch behavior honestly. If men at war can put aside combat for one day [1], you should be able to tolerate a different icon on a computer program for one day (or at least be understanding as to why people would enjoy that sort of thing even if you don't). 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
  - snvzz 2y ago
    I am not gonna be defending religions citing some traditional religious truce, when more than 1/365th of wars have been religious motivated. My take is that xmas should not be a holiday. We should observe the solstice if anything at all. Fortunately I live in Japan, and xmas is officially not a special day.

A few years ago, I was suprised to discover that lots of people actually do hate VLC at this most wonderful time of year. Only two of the top 10 search results are broadly positive about this feature: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=vlc+santa+hat+&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=vlc+santa+hat+&ia=web And in a VideoLAN forum thread, at least one user was willing to recompile the source in order to remove the objectionable icon (presumably before it became a configurable option in the application settings): https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=53998 https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=53998

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Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
Some people have a visceral hatred of Christmas due to its heritage. GP appears to only hate easter eggs. A good thing it is open source and one can modify if they wish. I wish I had the skills to remove the things I hate.
- foobarian 2y ago
  It's open source and we mold it to the way we like it! Right? One time I decided I would like my workstation login prompt to work like the Monty Python bridge of death and print "what is thy name" etc. instead of the usual login:. Tracking down where exactly this string was turned out to be really hard, I don't even remember exactly but somewhere in PAM source code? Anyway after that I became less quick to tell people "just change the source!"

snvzz 2y ago

I do not celebrate xmas, or engage in religion. It'd annoy me for sure. Fortunately, I run mpv.

skeaker 2y ago
Not engaging with it I would understand, but being annoyed by it is Grinch behavior honestly. If men at war can put aside combat for one day [1], you should be able to tolerate a different icon on a computer program for one day (or at least be understanding as to why people would enjoy that sort of thing even if you don't). 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_truce
- snvzz 2y ago
  I am not gonna be defending religions citing some traditional religious truce, when more than 1/365th of wars have been religious motivated. My take is that xmas should not be a holiday. We should observe the solstice if anything at all. Fortunately I live in Japan, and xmas is officially not a special day.