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US: “You guys need to be more responsible for your own security.”

Europe: Takes a stronger stance on Ukraine.

US: “No…not like that…”

I mean…sure Google. Knock yourself out. But I still prefer Jenga.

GIMP for example is nowhere near feature parity with Photoshop

Yeah. That’s exactly my point…maybe I wasn’t clear.

The problem is that no one specific FOSS tool has feature parity. To get the same abilities as Photoshop, you have to use a workflow that is a combination of GIMP, Inkscape, Krita and Scribus instead of having it in the one package, which is why Adobe is the industry standard.

Anybody who says Inkscape is a replacement for Illustrator simply does not use it in any serious professional capacity. It doesn’t even have any means of adding paragraph spacing!

That’s sort of where I see the issue as well. What proprietary software does is takes the features of a bunch of different pieces of kit and puts them together into one package.

There isn’t one particular thing that Propietary software does the FOSS software can’t. The problem is that you need multiple different software solutions to do it.

So while Illustrator offers Paragraph Spacing (for example) Inkscape doesn’t, you get that in Scribus. But Scribus lacks the more advanced pathing vector tools, which Inkscape offers. Meanwhile neither of them have strong photo editing abilities, which GIMP brings to the table, but GIMP can’t really do painting well, which KRITA brings to the table…and so on and so on.

Every open source alternative does something as good as their proprietary alternaties. But not everything. You have to use a combination in order to match the capability of one adobe product, and that’s just not feasible in a professional environment.

If you wan’t to use FOSS I get it, I want to. But when it comes to professionnal workflow you sometimes have to put your ego on the side. When I tried to ditch the Adobe Suite, the Free(dom) alternatives didn’t worked for me or the proprietary alternatives were simply better.

Then, I would argue, the alternative isn’t to sign petitions to make the corporate guys make their proprietary stuff available on FOSS operating systems. The alternative is to contribute to the FOSS alternatives in order to make them as good as the proprietary.

I’m not saying that you in particular haven’t contributed (either financially or developmentally). I don’t know you, so this isn’t particularly directed at you.

But in general, the “FOSS isn’t as good as proprietary stuff” crowd has overwhelmingly never actually tried to fund or contribute to the development of the software itself and their complaints amount to “Why isn’t my free thing as good as the thing they make me pay for?”

In which case the answer is “of course it isn’t…you’re telling me the software developed on the evenings and weekends by enthusiasts doing it in the spare time for NO money isn’t as polished as a fully funded business software!? NO WAY!!! I’M SHOOKETH!!!”

The alternative to the (perceived) quality disparity between FOSS and Proprietary isn’t to go begging at the Corporations doorstep; it’s to make the FOSS alternatives good enough to take the throne of “industry standard” away from the corporations.

It’s not impossible…hell, Blender is the poster child for pretty much doing exactly that. It’s not the “industry standard”, but it’s accepted in the industry in ways that GIMP and Inkscape still aren’t. And the reason is because it’s good enough to be there.

That was the first thing I thought watching it. Eerily too close. Makes it a bit more difficult to be entertained by it.

I’m not convinced that someone at the Heritage Foundation didn’t read the book and think EUREKA!!! It’s too on-the-nose for it to be a coincidence.

Or Atwood is a time-traveller and that’s why she has a secret book in a time capsule to be opened in 100 years. On the day of it’s opening, she’ll pop up in a surprise since it’s before she travelled back in time, thereby closing the paradox loop.

Dragon Age just never had the same replayability for me that Mass Effect had.

Except for the first one, which (let’s be honest) is very dated, I replayed 2 and 3 probably three or four times. And heck, I even went through Andromeda twice.

I don’t remember making it through a full replay of any Dragon Age games.

It’s not that I didn’t enjoy my single playthrough of any of the DA games, but the storyline didn’t make me want to go revisit it like a good novel or movie does.

Why finish a game when you’ve already got the in game purchases working for you?

A finished game means legal liability for bugs and performance issues. a perpetual alpha is legalese for we don’t have to do shit and people still buy expensive ships in the game."

Haven’t checked today since I woke up and went to work. But the post is 14 hours old, which means when it was posted I was happily watching some Red Letter Media on Freetube last night. So working fine for me (then at least). Will check when I’m home.

The fastest way to tell if something is the right thing to do is to ask whether or not Orange Julius Caesar opposes it.

Trump thinks literally everyone is supposed to be subordinate to the U.S. because 'murica.

I say Mexico drone strikes the source of it’s gang’s weapons supply; namely the gun manufacturers in the United States.

I’m sure that’s what his handlers tell him while they’re changing his diaper.

I would argue that he already thinks the rest of the world are vassals and always have been.

When he puts out demands to foreign companies and calls it “an issue of compliance”; it’s clear he’s not thinking of other countries as equals.

He thinks we’re vassals and this is how we all should have been treated all along since WW2.

Depends on what you’re using it for.

Writer, Presentation, etc… yeah. works great. No problems at all.

Calc/Excel…sure…will work for pretty basic stuff. But as soon as you get a relatively complex spreadsheet, interoperability goes out the window.

For example, I have a few spreadsheets that I work on at home (where I use Linux) and at work (where I use windows). I can’t work on it in one without screwing up the formatting, forumlae, and advanced filtering in the other, and vice versa. I’m forced to use OnlyOffice in order to be able to do so.

China can do without United States luxury imports like cars and iPhones for far longer than American consumers can do without coffee makers, microwaves, televisions, blenders, dishes, utensils, clothing, and literally every other consumer good in existence.

Maybe pay some attention instead of just posting a meaningless number. It’s not HOW MUCH trade is done, it’s WHAT is coming to and from each of the countries.

China doesn’t need America’s crap. America most definitely does need China’s.

The Donald Trump effect seems to be the opposite of what Far Right leaders were hoping for.

Every country other than the U.S has seen what Trump is doing and decided “fuck that…let’s nip this shit in the bud before it can spread.”

• Canada’s Pollievre has tanked in popularity.

• France’s LePen guilty of embezzlement.

• Argentina’s Meili blocked by the supreme court.

• Far right, hateful politicians in Germany potentially barred from running for office.

• Connor Macgregor in Ireland being told to fuck off.

• Nigel Farage being treated like slightly more of am embarrasement than he usually is.

Around the world people look at the United States and say “keep that shit away from us by any means necessary”

Yes. But carefully. And with eyes wide open.

Admitting your country has problems is “woke”, though. /s

It’s not the corporations, it’s the billionaires that run them. Every time Trump does something that makes the stock market drop, they get richer by scooping up more for less. Than sell them when Trump says “Just kidding” and the stock market rises again.

Not to mention that all of their companies get to raise prices and blame “tariffs” in order to increase their profit margin.

It’s the entire reason they paid to get him into the white house.