Its fanboy/girlism.

If you pirate content from their favorite author/artist/producer/whatever, basically all of their screeching comes down to a hysterical emotional response that you are hurting a person or group that they worship as God.

They just learn rhetoric to justify their emotions as a side effect, a consequence of wanting to be able to argue against the bad mean people that are hurting their favorite creatives.

They are naive, ignorant or misinformed, immature… usually believing in some kind ‘just world’ type worldview where everything is fair and square actually if you just follow the rules.

They don’t understand that the actual ‘losses’ from piracy are far, far smaller than whatever the RIAA or game studios say it is.

They don’t understand that the people who actually create or perform the art basically get paid a tiny fraction of what their labels or corporate overlords make.

They don’t understand that some people are actually poor, and the poor deserve art as well.

They don’t understand that when a reasonable cost forma product with reasonable ownership rights exist, a great, great many will prefer a streamlined but slightly costly method over a complex but monetarily costless method.

They don’t understand that you don’t really own anything which you can’t use or view or listen to as you please without relying on some proprietary other system which may just poof that ability out of existence one day, without refunding you.

Every single time I mention that Krita is basically an older version of photoshop, someone appears and says this.

I never said its a photoshop clone, as in it has parity with modern photoshop.

I said it can basically be used as one would have photoshop from a decade ago.

This is true, no matter whether or not it was ‘designed with drawing and digital media creation in mind.’

If you need something with more options and features than GiMP, or you don’t like GiMPs user interface… Krita works quite well.

Fucking incredible.

I’ve used Shotcut on PopOS.

Worked pretty well for doing something about as complex as a editing together a typical youtube video.

Hell I even managed to get it to support h.265 after some tinkering. h264 and hevc worked as well.

Also, in a similar vein… Krita is basically Photoshop from about a decade ago in terms of functionality, less outdated UI and more functional than GiMP, though its a bit chonkier (memory / CPU intensive).

Not sure if you are joking but… it does not appear to be making anywhere near the amount of money that has been invested in it.

It costs a stupendous amount of money to develop the models, to train them, to rent out or just buy the hardware needed to do this, to pay for the electrical power to do this.

… but even if you start out Russian, sometimes things don’t go as planned and you end up Stalin.

… WordPress had a good name?

… Required use of proprietary software causing a bunch of headaches and arguments… somehow makes FOSS less reputable?

Is this guy from another planet?

…

Oh. Oooohhhh.

This is connected to the Prime TumblrBrain Powertripper, the bastard king of the land of delusional manipulative narcissists.

Ah.

That explains perfectly why the discourse around it is utterly contradictory and nonsensical.

Its not anonymous. Its pseudonymous.

Even if your pseudonym isn’t directly linked to you, even if you are not doxxed, your pseudonym carries its own reputation.

Its up to the pseudonym operator to determine how to manage that.

Personally I’m a fan of Smurf Juice brand colloidial silver.

I used to know sooo many people that would justify this, a cryptoscam, shilling literally any outright fraud or vastly overpriced bs on their social media.

‘They’re just getting their bag, you’re hating cuz you broke!’

This is the cyberpunk dystopia.

Expanding on this concept: Do any of these programs aimed at architects have a capability of easily exporting to blender, such that they could be imported into Unity or UE?

Sheesh, just had to lemmy know about it.

My bandwidth is crappy through Tor.

OR

Too much exposition’s a bore.

OR

Though a quatrain’s a ditty,

My pay’s itty bitty.

If you cut prose apart, so as to make more,

Perhaps, one day, I’ll afford my lost oar.

Yep, they’ve been called ‘gold diggers’, for quite a while now.

There is still a huge portion of American women across the political spectrum, across wealth classes, across religious or irreligious beliefs, who ultimately have a huge part of what they want in a partner be ‘how much stuff can he buy me’, who will bully or shame or guilt trip or emasculate or outright violently abuse their male partner, regardless of how hypocritical this is with their other espoused beliefs, to get them to pay for things for them or cover their debts.

Just get on tiktok or instagram, you basically can’t miss it.

Its more than just the opposite number of conservative tradwives. There are plenty of self described liberal or leftist, feminists or social activists of one kind or another that ultimately still want their male partners to provide far more for them than they provide for their partner.

I tried it once a decade ago and uh, no luck whatsoever lol.

Aha, you’re right!

In my defense, i posted at midnight, without my glasses =P

I want to know who the fuck is gaming on FreeBSD and how.

Best post in this whole thread, imo.

I believe the original idea was mainly focused around making software developer’s lives easier, by (as you say) making versions of linux os’s with known, static, unchanging, immutable, standard system configurations, which could not be altered by the user.

Again, I think the main idea here was basically focused around making either new distros, or sort of locked down versions of distros such that they could be deployed in I guess an enterprise or some kind of group environment, so as to greatly streamline the process of software development.

You say ‘can receive updates’, and I am not sure if you mean higher level app updates, or lower level system updates.

When people attempted to evangelize this immutable concept to me a few years back, they would say the whole point is that lower level updates on which many other things depend do not happen, that you would have to do basically a completely new install of a new immutable version when one comes out.

Kind of like ‘more stable than stable.’

But… judging by other comments here, it would appear that this concept of immutable has uh… changed, lol.

Also, for what its worth, the Steam Deck OS is basically just a standardized version of Arch, upon which sits the whole nifty Steam Deck UI and Controller mappings, with the system set to read only by default.

You can change this and then do whatever the hell you want, if you so please.

I think its just one line in the terminal after you have set up your user as a system admin.

Because MSFT long, long ago abandoned the concept of giving users choice, or just in general not treating them like idiot babies.

Brings me back to when I was contracting with them, same time Win 8 came out.

MSFT does what they call ‘dogfooding’, ie, every worker is alpha/beta testing basically all MSFT software all the time.

My team was managing SQL servers and running queries. SQL Manager, and a whole bunch of other shit completely broke when 8 came out.

It initially did not even have the ability to go back to a Win7 style interface.

They truly believed that limiting all office workers to a UI where they could have, at max, one pane on 1/3 of the screen and another pane on 2/3rds would be completely fine.

We effectively could do no work for about 1/3 of our contract.

Working at or for MSFT is a curse I would only wish upon my worst enemies.

I actually had to quit another, earlier contract as my manager expected me to work overtime without pay. Before that, my one cool boss just showed me that I was being paid about 1/3 of what MSFT was paying the contracting firm for me.

And that is to say nothing of the massive racism that all the American employees just looked the other way on: Pretty common for Indian employees of a higher caste to treat Indian contractors of a lower caste like total dogshit, and the line from HR was ‘its their culture!’.