These do not sound like mutually exclusive perspectives. Why not both?
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Luke@lemmy.mlto Forgejo@programming.dev•[Answered] Organic maps archived their forgejo repositoryEnglish15·5 days agoA 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
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.
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.
I didn’t have any issues navigating your site on mobile. Not sure what difficulties these other comments are referring to, but I thought your site was an interesting retro-feeling experience, easier to use on mobile than a lot of other websites out there. 🤷 Good job so far!
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.
They still recommend not using it for anything important:
Bad things may happen if you use it in production.
quoted from the GNOME OS website
They’ve had an image for years, but I don’t think it was a live boot image.
Luke@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•GenP sub on Reddit bannedEnglish13·18 days agobaffled how people see this as sad news
I don’t understand. Are you saying we should be happy to see more online communities being eliminated for the benefit of corporate interests? Why wouldn’t it be disappointing (aka, “sad”) to hear about more of that going on, even if you dislike the platform where it’s happening?
Luke@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•GenP sub on Reddit bannedEnglish143·18 days agoUsing it at all, even pirated, means becoming contaminated on some level with Adobe paradigms and makes more people more likely to eventually hand Adobe more money because “it’s what I’m used to”.
At least pirate something that isn’t so disgusting, like Affinity, if you simply must use corpo software.
Luke@lemmy.mlOPto Autism@lemmy.dbzer0.com•The Accountant 2: how well do you feel autism is represented in the film?English2·20 days agoThe autism component wasn’t explicit in the second movie, but it was established in the first.
Why does Ben Affleck suck?
Luke@lemmy.mlto Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services.@lemmy.ml•[help] “docker compose run” isn’t doing what I think it’s supposed toEnglish2·20 days agoThat’s working as intended; as the compose docs state, the command passed by
run
overrides the command defined in the service configuration, so it wouldn’t normally be possible to actually shut down all the containers and then usedocker compose run
to interact with one of them. Run doesn’t start anything up in the container other than the command you pass to it.I’m not familiar with funkwhale, but they probably meant either to (a) shut down all the containers except postgres so that running
pg_dump
has something to connect to, or (b) useexec
as you have done.Personally, I do what you did, and use
exec
most of the time to do database dumps. AFAIK, postgres doesn’t require that all other connections to it are closed before usingpg_dump
. It begins a transaction at the time you run it, so it’s not interfering with anything else going on while it produces output (see relevant SO answer here). You could probably just leave your entire funkwhale stack up when you usedocker compose exec
to runpg_dump
.
Luke@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•How much of a pain is it to install Nvidia GPU drivers, really?English7·24 days agoWhatever distro you pick will have instructions for where and how to install the drivers, if it doesn’t do so for you during the install. Ubuntu is probably most likely to do so easiest. I prefer Fedora for other reasons, which is also easy to get nvidia working, but sightly less easy than Ubuntu where it’s a single checkbox during OS install.
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.
Luke@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•I switched from macos to Linux because it can't stop babying users and being unnecessarily restrictiveEnglish14·25 days agoJeez. Sounds like Roblox is horribly designed if the only way they can secure their servers is through client side measures.
Luke@lemmy.mlto Linux@lemmy.ml•Is KDE actually good or it is overrated? Or I was just unlucky because of prebuilt distros?English1·26 days agognome 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.mlto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•How can one federate a site not made with PieFed, Lemmy, etc.?English51·26 days agoCalm down Nancy Drew, what difference does any of this make? So what if it’s actually two people who are dating or not? Go apply your dubious detective skills towards something useful if you aren’t going to answer their questions.
Fair enough to chime in with your disinterest in a new controller, but…
Why would anyone buy something just to say they own it? What the hell kind of “keeping up with the Joneses” shit is that?
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.
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.