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  • The cookie dilemma

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  • Out of principle I always reject all, even though they are blocked by pf blocker anyway.

  • The cookie dilemma

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  • No. Uclock Origin.

  • If you care, then I guess you'll just have to keep giving Microsoft your money and data.

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  • Oh no! It only plays the CoD games that were good.

    IMO: let windows have that, as these games do some SCP-level containment for everyone sane in this hobby.

  • Ratioed

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  • The sunglasses indoors really make it.

  • FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!

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  • If that's the case, wow. That's an elegant strategy. I'll add it to my comment.

  • FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT!

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  • Holy shit. That almost makes me forget that Donald Trump sucked off Bill Clinton.

    Edit: Trump is in the Epstein files. The distraction has layers.

  • Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

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  • The GPL doesn't force to contribute. But if you make changes to it, you need to have these changes reflect the liberties you yourself received. Megacorporations use the so-called "Explore, Expand, Exterminate" model, the GPL stops this from happening.

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    Is the FOSS world in danger of a corporate takeover, thanks to pushover licenses?

  • Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?

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  • Also, I have a rudimentary idea how to fix this. So if anyone who's more competent than me would like to have a go at it, please do so.

    Basically found a non-profit ad agency for free software. Basically the agency would create turnkey ad and branding concepts for certain free software projects that would like to have it and in return they get 5% of their donations, for example. All of the money gets reinvested back into the advertising for the member software projects. Also, it could be very easy, the ad agency would, in broad strokes, just have a competition parity strategy where they essentially do whatever the competition does, in broad strokes, for their advertising and "just" adapt it to what the free software project needs.

    Yes, it's some random "idea guy" on the internet coming up with something that's coherent and smart sounding. So take it for what you will.

  • Has bad branding ever turned you off from software, FOSS or not?

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  • Oh my, YES. Before I entered the world of free software, I was turned off by it. Reason is, I thought to myself, hold on: "If it's gratis, then it's going to be at the level of quality of all of these malware-ridden, barely functional, shareware programs." Luckily I'm smarter now, but free software has a branding problem. It results from these programs often being developed by incredibly competent turbo nerds, the result of this is the advertisement reads like a technical manual or a spec sheet.

    Proper advertising is helpful. It informs users about what they can do with the programme. They don't care about it being programmed in hyper-efficient C, optimised with hardware acceleration or the underlying mathematical principles of how something is being processed. They care about getting the results they want. Instead of darktable, for example, talking about "4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers", instead, they should talk about what users can use Darktable for. Sell the fantasy of belonging to the best, only thanks to Darktable and getting superior results from the programme. Show people the stunning results that real pros got by using Darktable. Show that there is a real community around the programme, and not just a GitHub repo. These things matter.

    Darktable, in my opinion, is the best raw editor out there, and yes, the "4x32-bit floating point pixel buffers" and other incredibly well thought out features are the reason why that is. But 99% of users wouldn't know why these things listed as their features are so massively useful and make Darktable so ridiculously superior compared to the competition.

    I genuinely think that if more free software projects would invest in proper advertising and branding, that GNU/Linux and free software on it wouldn't have 3% market share, but would be the monopoly in the computing market.

    Edit: GIMP is another perfect example. It has another problem, and not just the name. The website is completely barren. "High Quality Photo Manipulation: GIMP provides the tools needed for high quality image manipulation."

    Gimp has not only more features than Adobe Photoshop, but most of them are significantly better. IMO, they need to communicate this and just bundle the extensions. Gimmic is basically tripling the amount of things you can do with it and resynthesiser is a massively useful function to have. "Normies" don't want to fiddle around with plugins. IMHO: The extensions are very good, highly stable and should just be integrated.

  • Chatcontrol news!

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  • IMHO: I hope the cunts in the Danish government that try to force this die of cancer.

    First try: No.Second try: No.Third try, trying to force this through a back door: No.Fourth try: maybe we can still get away with violating citizen rights, but this time only slightly less. See you next year.

    Edit: I want to know who is responsible for this.

  • How Two Photographers Transformed RAW Photo Support on Mac

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  • Darktable sadly has no mobile versions. It is only available on desktops running GNU/Linux, MacOS or Windows. :(

  • Recent news made me think

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  • He was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records and more importantly, he rallied people for an act of terrorism, namely attacking the parliament.

    While I realise it's more complicated than just a blanket ban for all criminals, in the case of Donald Trump, IMO, it really is that easy.

    Edit: He also stole government documents. Another offense added to a list the US judicial system wipes its ass with.

  • Bill Clinton be like

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  • 1,79m.

  • Recent news made me think

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  • Well then it's pretty credible. The only problem is the judicial system in the USA is so fucked that a convicted felon can have the highest position in their state. And they even stated that they won't prosecute a president no matter what crime he committed. So, what does it matter? At this point, the guy is convicted of multiple felonies and has committed multiple crimes during his term as president. And no one's going to do anything about that.

  • How Two Photographers Transformed RAW Photo Support on Mac

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  • Oops, I accidentally deleted some of the previous message. Here's what it's supposed to say. I apologise for that!

    And what's complicating things even more is that the order in which things are applied to the image matter a lot. Darktable uses the same process that colorists from the cinema world use.

  • Recent news made me think

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  • Genuine question, is this real?

  • Simple Real-Time TTS on Manjaro Linux?

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  • Now, while not exclusively text-to-speech, but my favourite programme for that would be Speech Note.

  • Recent news made me think

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  • What Putin blackmail photos? For real, never heard of it.

  • How to start as a not very tech savy person

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  • For these requirements, I'd recommend PopOS. Thanks to its app centre being very well designed, you never need to touch the terminal for anything. Package managers are apt and Flatpak, so you get full access to basically anything that GNU/Linux has to offer. The install itself is super easy as well. I think it may be one of the best beginner distros.

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    What's the experience for using AMD GPUs for COMPUTE on GNU/Linux?

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    Arch users when they discover they contain 98% "bloated" Junk DNA:

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    When to upgrade hardware?

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    A fine dish.

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    Payday

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    Gandalf if he were US President and around children.

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    Hard to disagree.

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    Expectation vs. Reality (Turn on sound.)

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    Sleepover surprise!

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    Lifehack

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    Southern USA core.

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    Turn on sound.

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    Turn on sound.

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    Winblows

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    Gulagtus

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    USA right now.

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    Zuck's true form

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    Low effort BMW slander

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    Low effort BMW slander