aplay doesn’t bitch about encodings or signatures or checksums or something not looking like a media file. If you do something stupid (like pipe an executable file into it), it won’t tell you to go back to the child-safe play pen, it will pass the data to ALSA and do its best to render it as sound.

The Windows mind can’t comprehend the importance of the freedom to fuck around. But, looking at your comment history, you’re more of a professional contrarian and won’t even try to do that.

Why does it need value? Living to extract value and nothing else is toxic to your body mind and soul.

why is it not

Because you can listen to the sound the Linux kernel makes when you push it through the sound card?

That’s what the meme is praising VLC for