Imagine them disconnecting someone’s land-line phone if they detected heresy against Zeus & Mount Olympus.

They should argue that they are not qualified to be a police force, nor a courthouse. They are simply a private business & a utility.

The Web Browser is the new TeleVision.

There is too much financial power to corrupt for us to win this fight.

The way out is to ditch HTTPS, HTML & CSS and create a new spec that is purposely limited in its scope suchas Gopher or Gemini (although I might argue Gemini is slightly too narrow as I think it would need Images, Audio & Video and maybe Input Forms depending on scope)

HTTP & HTML must die. It had a good run, it’s time for a new Hyper v2 world outside the mainstream downtown doofus hangouts of social media & Advertising impersonating Internet Things like search, social & email.

We need a new web browser without all the legacy garbage & complexities. Without the DRM corruption shoehorned by Amazon, Disney, Netflix & Google.

And it needs to be limited by design to just what is needed so financial interests can’t corrupt & screw it up.

This is called Controlled Opposition.

The Oil Companies do the same thing – fund the leaders of anti-oil activists in countries where they are not #1 and use them as a proxy to target and harm their competitors.

Profit. Rinse & repeat.

Mafia tactics. The oil companies let government money and investors innovate in the solar industry and pay all the upfront costs. Then did a controlled collapsed and bought the companies IP up in bankruptcy for pennies to the dollar. And now that the oil companies own the Patents & IP it’s totally okay for you to morally buy their products.

The bottom line is that The House Always Wins and what matters is who is allowed to collect the money for the grift. Territory of who is allowed to buy & sell on what streets.

We would be better off if Firefox didn’t exist and the EU broke up Google for Anti-trust. At least then Manifest v3.0 DRM might not have come to be.

Yeah I wrote it that way on purpose, it’s a locale thing, that’s how we sing it here and it felt right for fun storytelling ;P

🎶 We’re all living in Amerika, America it’s wonder bra ;P

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Capitalism bad because India scary? The solution is not to sabotage India but to stop autocucking yourself with idiocracy. China yesterday, India today, Indonesia tomorrow. Let the people work and raise themselves out of poverty. The 21st century is now. Clinging to to the 20th where the Industrial Revolution feared automation is like all these novice artists trying to stop AI. The cat is out of the bag, you can get with the times or become obsolete. Also quantity isn’t everything, if it was there would be billboards and psyops to get women to have 10 kids.

College kids should collectively buy 1 book and then AI to rewrite the book in other words and distribute it freely.

That would be hilarious and in line with their world view of seizing the means of production.

Its funny because it’s like asking a business

What are you going to do to piss off customers and fix my issues.

Because the more they piss off customers the less power they keep.

It would appear the installation is in need of a “repair”

Drink verification can.

Someone should sue the Roads Company for not stopping speeding and exchange of mp3 CDs.

Boten Anna’s does

Yeah I totally agree, I love Photoshop UX colors and general function. It’s been a while though.

On the other hand GIMP has a HUD command palette with hotkey / and you can search for all image functions which is fine with me as I use my keeb a lot.

And I did import PS hotkeys to go with my many years of memory and it helped me feel at home much better.

I have used many image editors over the years and I can at least say for basic functions, cropping, scaling, art it opens fast compared to wine and the pre 3.x UI is so much nicer to use.

I would definitely not recommend a cold switch for anyone at a job, the transition would be frustrating and problematic. But learning the “life raft” as a backup seems sensible.

It was a hard hit to my ego going from a PS God back to a peasant in terms of output, but I’d say the last few years the tooling has improved tremendously and I can say I’m a novice or mid tier photo editor in GIMP.

The text tool is nowhere as robust as PS, I felt like PS was a all in one printer one stop shop. But then there’s Inkscape so I am okay with dividing my functions up among a few tools instead of only 1.

I’ve designed concepts for houses in GIMP as weird as that may seem.

God do I hate 2.8 and 2.10 UX it was soo bad in terms of getting out of my way and an embarrassment at work, 2.99.xx thankfully is light years apart.

Edit: Also the GEGL non destructive fx stuff is really interesting and G’MIC Qt addon filters

I used to feel that way about it 10+ years.

If you haven’t used it in a while (1y+) don’t even bother with the 2.10.xx – I use Krita, GIMP, Inkscape – did some image editing in GIMP yesterday and it went good.

Since the latter 2.99.xx releases my position & criticisms have changed. New UX, Non-destructive Layer Filters and the workflow has improved the software a lot. There is a ton of activity on their gitlab.

Its still not perfect but easily beats Photoshop Wine at all basic operations.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/

And since this post is about Photoshop. Don’t pirate it. Be the change in the world you want to see. Let Adobe Rot in Pieces for decades of being anti Linux and anti FOSS despite popular demand and big Hollywood bucks.

Make them a relic of a long forgotten decade. The sooner we can move on the better.

Also it’s a great indicator of agreement. The more upvotes the more people may resonate with haveing low interest.

Try gallium?

Agree, even more so with the private cloud data. If your loved one dies and you want to visit multiplayer you created together in open world builders it would be shitty to take that away from them. Eg: Father and son played Minecraft together on LAN server or whatever (If that even is a thing)

Fine just create a digital corporation of your identity and assign rights to that instead. I hear they have the same rights as people.

Japan clearly doesn’t understand they need to make a Steam for manga.