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  • Luke@lemmy.mltoMemes@sopuli.xyzwho are you?
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    3 days ago

    Could you explain your suggestion that there’s a correlation between one’s subjective awareness of a food item’s nutritional content and it’s objective fitness for human consumption over time? These things seem entirely unrelated to me.



  • A consequence of the concerns raised here, probably: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c

    Community contributors to Organic Maps have expressed serious concerns about the project’s governance, transparency, and the potential for shareholder profit at the expense of the community. They are calling for a shift to a nonprofit structure, greater inclusivity in decision-making, and financial transparency, and are considering starting a new project if these issues are not addressed.

    The Organic Maps project has been built and promoted under the premise of being an open community project, so it’s troubling to discover that the majority of shareholders consider it to be their sole property. More concerns include lack of transparency and accountability in project governance and violation of stated Free and Open Source Software values.

    There is apparently a community fork of Organic Maps over on codeberg: https://codeberg.org/comaps


  • Luke@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlInkscape 1.4.2 is out!
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    6 days ago

    As someone who uses GIMP very effectively for commercial work, I am increasingly feeling like people who say that GIMP isn’t a capable alternative are simply ignorant of it’s capabilities. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Photoshop. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Affinity Photo. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Photopea.

    But yeah, it does work, and works well. If you apply a bit of patience to learn how it works, then it’s also very easy to use, eventually. Maybe it doesn’t cover all the use-cases, but it’s ignorant to say that it categorically isn’t capable for commercial use.


  • Luke@lemmy.mltoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comThe same picture
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    7 days ago

    Ah yes, the liberal mentality where leftists are somehow both completely irrelevant as a voting bloc that politicians need to court, and at the same time leftists are solely responsible for any and all votes not received by whatever incompetent candidate the liberals presented.



  • The prevalence/popularity of an idea has no direct relationship to it’s merit.

    In other words, even if there were no socialist friendly governments (which isn’t the case, but even if it were), that wouldn’t be proof that socialism is a bad idea.

    Note: I realize this person is trolling; I’m not replying for their benefit. Still worth countering the nonsensical fallacy they’ve spewed into the community, IMO.











  • Luke@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlBring Affinity Suite to Linux Sign the Petition
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    24 days ago

    The something that sucks is lack of money. Paying developers to do work definitely helps. It’s unfair to level unconstructive critique at the end result when it hasn’t ever had the same opportunity to thrive that the paid software you’re comparing it to had.

    Serif produced a nice software suite by paying developers. They got that money from investors who made it by exploiting people (like every corporation) and then exploited their workers and customers in turn. While this resulted in a relatively nicer alternative to Adobe shit, it still isn’t ideal.

    Imagine if GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, and Krita all had the kind of financial support that corporations do. Blender and the community supporting them are figuring it out to some extent, and now Blender has essentially either matched or eclipsed the corporate competition. This is absolutely possible for other FOSS software, but we the community need to be there for them financially too.



  • gnome devs would realey really like it if you didn’t use extensions

    This is patently untrue. The GNOME developers even maintain their own repository with a bunch of extensions for people to use. Why would they do so if they didn’t want anyone to use them?

    Do extensions break on GNOME major version upgrades? Sometimes, yeah. Nobody is forced to upgrade if they don’t want to, and it’s not like you log into your desktop one day to be surprised with a broken system. There’s even an upgrade assistant that will tell you prior to an upgrade if any extensions will break.

    This pervasive loud minority of whiny complainers spreading nonsense about GNOME is annoying. It’s free software; don’t use it if you don’t like it, that’s fine. But don’t spread lies about it, that’s childish.




  • Luke@lemmy.mltoSteam@lemmy.mlWe are waiting...
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    27 days ago

    Just in case y’all aren’t being snarky with your questions…

    No, the 8bitdo controller is just a fairly standard looking normal controller with a few extra shoulder buttons. It’s only $30 USD and has nice color options, but it is not remotely comparable to a Steam controller.