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[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

With the recent drama at the Exodus camp this days I've heard Dukes replaced his hair with racism.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

My father was a farmer for pretty much all of his life (since he could work until he couldn't) and had a crop of cilantro at one time. I never knew nor heard about somebody saying that cilantro tastes like soap, never even imagined it was a thing. It was only until a few years ago when I started to get my nose into Reddit when I read about people saying that.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can't just throw money and devs at it and expect the problem to be solved.

Then nobody will throw money at any project at all, because everything eventually will be solved by "magick".

Destinating more resources to that quickens and makes better that process, though, incentivating people to work on it and test it.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

It seems like you're thinking about "customization" as "customizable look and feel", but "desktop customization" goes way beyond than that.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Phoronix's comment section is as toxic as it can be, but i found out a comment that puts into words better similar thoughts I have on this:

How about the Linux Foundation forks over a few million to fund the thing in its name?

They could hire more engineers, more testing, more QA. Yet they don't.

And while at it, maybe Mozilla or any other stakeholder with resources could revamp Rust to produce lightweight binaries, have a stable compiler and for it to be way quicker in compilation?

No? Okay, but then why do all these foundations/organizations exist? And why do they hold such vast amounts of resources, while extorting the projects they claim to help?

I'd only add that it's not only about the kernel - they are home to a project that could be in the medium-long term a serious alternative to Google's blink/Apple's webkit, and of course an alternative to the hegemony of Chrome, but they actively chose to just not give them a single cent. Yes I am talking about Servo.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I switched to it from DDG which I found was enshittifying lately, but to be honest I don't really like it that much, just gave a bit better results than DDGs and has bangs, but the AI thing is absolute BS and there's no way to disable it without saving cookies on your browser.

Now that I look at startpage again I'm thinking to give it another try but am not sure if it has bangs too and if you can set settings in their GET method as you can with DDG.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This works in Brave search too, at the beginning or at the end of the query string. There are 12474 bangs available as of the moment of writing this comment (!). I believe all of those work on DDG too.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I supposed states violating human rights washing their faces with cycling was the worst collab in cycling, but ok.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

What's ridiculous is that people expect one software to behave the same as other software when the FOSS software does not imply in any way that it is a clone of a proprietary software

Well, that was exactly my point.

[–] m4m4m4m4@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I edited several videos for work precisely 2-5 years ago and it was really good. That surprised me in the good sense because last time I tried it before that was like in 2010 and was rather funky, but so was my crappy laptop. And there's been a while since that and since KDE brought it to attention and the fundraising and you name it and it seems it has improven even more. Maybe with time it can be another famous representative from KDE targeted towards content creation as now it is Krita.


That being said, I just can't take any "review" from a "normie" about FOSS stuff seriously because most of the time they come from a propietary software mindset.

Take for example reviews about Inkscape or GIMP and you'll find most of them mentioning "they're not as usable as Photoshop/Illustrator". So people expect any alternative to work exactly as their non-foss counterpart, which is absolutely ridiculous.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Don't quote me on this, @nilaus@lemmy.world made me think about it - and it's not even an original idea, regardless

 
 
 
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