❤️ sex work is work ✊
I don’t have a singular favorite, but some of the top ones who get me excited just by their casting are (in no particular order):
I’ve been enjoying novelWriter for a few months now.
It’s FOSS, works on every OS, and is created by a writer who was frustrated with the other options available. She and another writer co-designed it initially, and there’s a respectably sized community built up around it at this point. It’s got the kinds of features that writers actually need, and avoids bloat. So they say, and in my experience that’s certainly been the case.
Additionally, why does age have anything to do with any of these questions? This feels like it was made by someone who doesn’t have much experience with other humans and is unaware of the massive variety of opinions and attitudes among all age groups.
I am one of those people!
As someone who uses GIMP very effectively for commercial work, I am increasingly feeling like people who say that GIMP isn’t a capable alternative are simply ignorant of it’s capabilities. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Photoshop. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Affinity Photo. Yeah, it doesn’t work like Photopea.
But yeah, it does work, and works well. If you apply a bit of patience to learn how it works, then it’s also very easy to use, eventually. Maybe it doesn’t cover all the use-cases, but it’s ignorant to say that it categorically isn’t capable for commercial use.
Ah yes, the liberal mentality where leftists are somehow both completely irrelevant as a voting bloc that politicians need to court, and at the same time leftists are solely responsible for any and all votes not received by whatever incompetent candidate the liberals presented.
They still recommend not using it for anything important:
Bad things may happen if you use it in production.
quoted from the GNOME OS website
They’ve had an image for years, but I don’t think it was a live boot image.
baffled how people see this as sad news
I don’t understand. Are you saying we should be happy to see more online communities being eliminated for the benefit of corporate interests? Why wouldn’t it be disappointing (aka, “sad”) to hear about more of that going on, even if you dislike the platform where it’s happening?
Whatever distro you pick will have instructions for where and how to install the drivers, if it doesn’t do so for you during the install. Ubuntu is probably most likely to do so easiest. I prefer Fedora for other reasons, which is also easy to get nvidia working, but sightly less easy than Ubuntu where it’s a single checkbox during OS install.
The something that sucks is lack of money. Paying developers to do work definitely helps. It’s unfair to level unconstructive critique at the end result when it hasn’t ever had the same opportunity to thrive that the paid software you’re comparing it to had.
Serif produced a nice software suite by paying developers. They got that money from investors who made it by exploiting people (like every corporation) and then exploited their workers and customers in turn. While this resulted in a relatively nicer alternative to Adobe shit, it still isn’t ideal.
Imagine if GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, and Krita all had the kind of financial support that corporations do. Blender and the community supporting them are figuring it out to some extent, and now Blender has essentially either matched or eclipsed the corporate competition. This is absolutely possible for other FOSS software, but we the community need to be there for them financially too.
Jeez. Sounds like Roblox is horribly designed if the only way they can secure their servers is through client side measures.
gnome devs would realey really like it if you didn’t use extensions
This is patently untrue. The GNOME developers even maintain their own repository with a bunch of extensions for people to use. Why would they do so if they didn’t want anyone to use them?
Do extensions break on GNOME major version upgrades? Sometimes, yeah. Nobody is forced to upgrade if they don’t want to, and it’s not like you log into your desktop one day to be surprised with a broken system. There’s even an upgrade assistant that will tell you prior to an upgrade if any extensions will break.
This pervasive loud minority of whiny complainers spreading nonsense about GNOME is annoying. It’s free software; don’t use it if you don’t like it, that’s fine. But don’t spread lies about it, that’s childish.
Calm down Nancy Drew, what difference does any of this make? So what if it’s actually two people who are dating or not? Go apply your dubious detective skills towards something useful if you aren’t going to answer their questions.
Fair enough to chime in with your disinterest in a new controller, but…
Why would anyone buy something just to say they own it? What the hell kind of “keeping up with the Joneses” shit is that?
Just in case y’all aren’t being snarky with your questions…
No, the 8bitdo controller is just a fairly standard looking normal controller with a few extra shoulder buttons. It’s only $30 USD and has nice color options, but it is not remotely comparable to a Steam controller.
“People often say to me, ‘You don’t pay the authors. You don’t pay the reviewers. You hardly print anymore. The Web is free. Why do you charge?’” said H. Frederick Dylla, the former director of the American Institute of Physics and board member of the Association of American Publishers. “It sounds like a compelling argument. But it actually isn’t.”
Albert Greco, a publishing expert at Fordham University who is working on a book about scholarly publishing, said those making that argument are forgetting everything they learned or should have learned in economics class.
“There are costs,” he said. “Does The Washington Post have a paywall?”
Yes.
“So is it fair then if some high-school student wants to really follow the Supreme Court and doesn’t have the money to pay?” Greco said. “Life is a bitter mystery. We can’t give everything away for free. It’s not that kind of country.”
These assholes don’t even have a better reason for fleecing everyone than base greed, and they don’t try to hide it.
Ignorant person checking in with probably a dumb and oversimplified question, but what prevents you and other science researchers from posting your writing independently? Why must you submit to these corpo controlled publications?
What would your solution be to this intolerable situation for you where leftists are allowed to… checks notes …randomly be visible on the internet?
Forth of July is a forced special case that we USians have been conditioned into differentiating. Strange shit like that due to nationalism. We don’t do that for most other dates or holidays, though. Like, hardly anyone goes around routinely saying 31st of October to refer to that holiday.
Maybe the UK equivalent would be the 5th of November. (Or was that just popularized because of V For Vendetta?)
I suppose I’ve heard the Ides of March plenty, as well.