I really recommend you to try them out and see for youself. Each of them has their own power. Especially now that there's a flow of interest this way, a lot of them have gone nuclear and pushing new versions by the hour (not kidding).

Yeah, Jerboa is good and battle tested but Liftoff is good, Thunder is good, each in their own unique way. I love that.

jeff bezos is a monarch. he has an empire with people doing literal slave-work and practically untouchable by the judicial system. if you are not willing to overthrow him now, you won't be willing to overthrow a "literal" monarch. same goes for every billionaire.

as there are middlemen protecting the billionaires now -like mass media, military industrial complex, heavily armed local police, union busters, corrupt judicial system etc.- there will be middlemen protecting the monarch then.

you think you would be willing to overthrow the monarch because it's not real, a fantasy. but you're willingly turning a blind eye to the exact same thing that is real and happening right now.

"...Their aim is not merely to create alternatives to the use of dollars, but an entire new set of institutional alternatives to the IMF and World Bank, the SWIFT bank clearing system, the International Criminal Court and the entire array of institutions that U.S. diplomats have hijacked from the United Nations..."

this should be the consequene of this war, this should be what we remember of this war. very hopeful.

because there's no client on fdroid :)

wtf???

that is such a petty thing. i get that it's a thing on reddit, but why go to all that trouble of searching, targeting, gathering, registering and so on and so forth?

the thing is, there COULD be a coversation there. but some things are so immensely repeated in the mass media, people think that it is a valid talking point. that is mostly confirmation bias doing its thing, but still...

how are they similar atrocities?

did hamas lock 2.5 million people in the worlds most dense open air prison?

did hamas systematically crushed their buildings and not let concrete inside?

did hamas shoot little kids just for throwing rocks?

did hamas systematically murdered press, medics on the field?

did hamas control israelis food intake?

did hamas very deliberately snipe the knees of people peacefully protesting?

did hamas cut electricity, water, food?

did hamas bombed places that palestinian prisoners stayed?

did hamas tell people to leave the city and bomb the only way out?

what did hamas do? the only thing left to do when you do all of those things to a people.

Molo tov

akhtchually arch is a little easier than gentoo. gentoo is fully source-based, while arch is binary first. gentoo has use flags, while arch comes preoccupied with flags.

albeit both distros cater to a little more experienced users, there's that. i also think a more user-friendly distro would be a better start. at least the ones where you can get a working environment by just using a live installer. mint IS a good alternative.

stacking wm -> wayfire

tiling wm -> sway [corrected, i don't know what was going through my mind]

terminal emulator -> alacritty or foot

it's obscenely over priced and this cultist shit doesn't make it any better. to me shift mq6 is miles better.

and i almost forgot, didn't they try to pull "copying free software verbatim and slapping a different logo on it"? for a whole group of software?

"illegal activities" doesn't always mean buying crack cocaine, or whatever. depending on where you live it can mean:

accessing wikipedia, forming communities, performing union activities...

in other words, the ruling class of your country decides something being threatening their power, and that becomes an illegal activity.

of course everyone can be tracked. also everyone is not julian assange, so i'm not so worried about using tor for "illegal activities".

i guess it's an instinct to want most people to move away from reddit (or windows, ms office etc.). but unfortunately this is not what free software is about. i'm not being cynical here, let me explain.

think of the time when you didn't know anything about windows; you had to learn your way around, its quirks. now that you have used it for so long that those things have just become second nature.

i used identi.ca, i have been using mastodon for 4 years now, i started using lemmy last year, i have been using irc for i don't know how long, i started using linux in 2005, i have been using floss professional audio software for more than 15 years, i'm even transitioning my professional arch/eng workflow to floss software.

know that free software is not for everyone, not because these are not capable, but because it's hard to delearn and relearn a new workflow.

which means... lemmy most probably won't be the new reddit, but it's already a nice platform that it never needs to be the new reddit.

"What will be the consequences of non-compliance?

Fines: of up to 10% of the company’s total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements"

it's a tough pill to swallow.

you're not exactly saying the thing on the meme, but god, the line is awfully thin. capitalism IS the unfathomably rich.

politicians are doing exactly what they're there for: protecting the interets of the unfathomably rich.

is that zelensky on the left?

the frustration is awfully familiar, i must say.

the thing about gimp and krita is: gimp is an image manipulation software and krita is a drawing software, and as far as i can see from my so's work, photoshop is a somewhat mixture of those two. from the jump, we're not comparing apples to apples, unfortunately.

but you already answered your own question, i think.

see, foss programs aren't there to be a drop-in replacment for their closed sourced alternatives. they emerge from a need from the community. what is more, usually you will have multiple programs encompassing a single workflow of their closed sourced counterparts; meaning they are modular.

so even if there was some other program apart from these, it would have a learning curve, unless adobe open sources photoshop. so there is a viable alternative (which i know from experience) but there is a learning curve, albeit a steep one for someone coming from photoshop.

you shouldn't limit yourself, but it would immensely improve your understanding of the software if you try to recreate simple pieces of your workflow using gimp, once in a while.

I might sound like an old fart but here's my 2 cents.

I was exactly in the same situation in 2005. I was heavily invested in commercial products but I wanted to switch to an all open source workflow. My advice would be to start small. First dual boot with windows. Get your DAW working at a basic level. Then get your hardware setup the way you are fully comfortable. Then try to get your visual instruments to work.

Keep in mind that it will be a somewhat different workflow. Linux is highly modular. You can definitely achieve the same results but sometimes with more tools. Jack is an amazing sound system which is now seamlessly integrated into the system with Pipewire. It makes routing your audio stupidly simple and opens up a whole different universe of possibilities.

All this is coming from someone that's using an all open source approach for almost 20 years now.

And if it does't work, it doesn't. No need to swim against the current.

so tell me then, how would you behave if you were a palestinian? just accept death?

this is my reasoning also

it's baffling to me that voting (or democracy for that matter) for a lot of people means, electing a person every 4-5 years and expecting them to be "good" leaders.

if the process isn't directly tied to accountability at all times, how is that democracy? you elect lesser of many evils (in most places you won't even have more than 2 "eligible" candidates) and that's it?

whatever voting system you have, it will not solve this systemic problem.