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  • You know, besides the funny/cute/interesting videos that made it to its home page that I save to show them to my mother, the only other reason I haven’t deleted Reddit yet is the r/forhire sub.

    Of course, not a Linkedin alternative per se, but it seems to me there have been people that has found full time jobs thanks to that sub. I’ve had the chance to get some small gigs and earn some extra bucks working for great people (and being scammed by awful people in other “similar” subs, but that’s another story).

    I was bummed when I got here and found out there are some similar communities here but with almost no subscriptors and no posts whatsoever.


  • GIMP and photoshop have always been photo editing tools first and foremost

    I mean, GIMP literally means “General Image Manipulation Program”.

    Excusing the lack of proper shape drawing tools as “it’s a task for vector software” while at the same time having things like the ability to define vector masks is complete nonsense.




  • Even Microshit tried and gave up because it was so hard

    Not exactly. Yes a browser engine is one of the most, if not the most, complex pieces of software.

    But if it was almost impossible to create a web engine then this, or KDE’s KHTML, or Servo, or NetSurf, or Kraken, or you-name-it wouldn’t exist.

    Then how come (one of) the most powerful tech company in the world couldn’t make it, you ask? They already had a “functional” web engine. But what they had from the beginning was absolute shit that did not respect any web standard. And oh boy we people who fought against that shit trying to support it do know. Its baggage was immensely huge and shitty that after a while and the speed Chrome was taking over they found it was easier to yeet it altogether, and I do hope that piece of shit is burning in hell because it made our lifes so miserable.

    Note that Opera did the same thing with their web engine - they gave up with it mostly because they found easier to jump in the Blink bandwagon, without realizing they were making Opera just another Chromium skin without much value, contrary to what Presto was.

    Kinda what could happen if one day Microsoft decided to try make Windows to be as functional, fast and permissive as Linux.







  • 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.



  • 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.







  • I’m seeing a “Gestures” section in Lawnchair which has the following:

    • Double tap
    • Swipe up
    • Swipe down
    • Home button
    • Back button

    Each one of them has the following options:

    • Do nothing
    • Rest mode
    • Open notifications panel
    • Open app drawer
    • Open app finder
    • Open search
    • Open app (this one seems to be the one you are asking for)

    Not sure if this are the exact names they show up in english, though