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  • re: Medium I was genuinely curious why people use it, thanks for the clarification.

    still as someone who writes only open source codes, it goes a bit against my religion, but I totally understand if your income depends on it! thanks for the text, and for the "friend link". as promised... ; )

  • a slightly unrelated question. do the authors at least get paid for posting things on Medium? if not, why do that? I'm unironically curious. it's a bad platform no matter how you look at it: it's closed for unregistered readers, it's typesetting sucks ass... the only reason I could see, is if the authors actually get some of the ad revenue, in which case I'd much rather pay directly to the authors.

  • great! thanks for the reply. one other use-case that crossed my mind is an ability to write simple API requests in the GUI. for example, if you want to automatize a bunch of requests within the app itself, or control the format of its response to requests by an external app (basically tunneling them through your app). not sure how useful it is to others, and perhaps this is more easily achievable by simply writing a python script. but I think some ai companies do have this built in to their web interfaces.

  • whoever says pacman is enough either have all the time in the Universe to configure the miniscule knobs or have never done serious development with multi-platform/compiler deployments. controlling which compilers are used for which packages in pacman (or any other default package manager for that matter) is a headache. having multiple versions of non-conflicting gcc, llvm, cuda etc is priceless and very easy with brew.

    elitism aside, brew is genuinely a good package manager when it comes to imperative ones. I still use it on my desktop arch extensively. ofc, if you have nix, there is really no good reason for it (and I'm not even sure it's possible).

    PS. "but you can use docker" -- not if you want to have the same performance especially on GPUs. also have you ever tried containerizing HIP? it's a frigging nightmare.

    PPS. if you disagree with the first paragraph -- please reach out or send links. i'd love to learn how to do these on finite timescales of our lifetime.

  • run with --password-store=basic flag from the command line. if that helps, simply make a .desktop file with the proper Exec= field. let me know if you need more details.

    UPD: just saw there was an earlier response on this! hope that helped.

  • Movies & TV @hexbear.net

    WIP Project "When-is-this-about?" -- An interactive database of historic movies with time periods and locations

  • Sorry for vagueness. My suggestion was to replace the "add post" button with the "change layout." I feel that most of the people use "change layout" more frequently (since different lemmy communities are better fitted with different layouts) than "create a new post."

  • Eternity @lemdro.id

    very minor suggestion (imho)

  • Maybe. In any case I try to never infer someone's tone from text interactions since it's always faulty and lacks human dimension. By default I just assume people actually mean what they write. I think we get (on average) more aggressive, and tend to show less empathy when not talking face to face.

    Also... The term "American left-wing" is offensive for a Marxist like myself. :D

  • Guys, guys... You're over-ideologizing a very simple humane request. I was asked nicely and respectfully -- I tried to respond in the same way. Simple as that. I'm usually not regulating my personal communications with others in terms of laws and amendments.

  • i really apologize if the use of that word was perceived as offensive, that was obviously not my intent. i'm usually quite straightforward in picking words (i come from a completely different culture, where sexual assaults are extremely uncommon).

    PS. for the context of others reading this comment, the original title of this post was: "nmtui that does not rape your eyes."

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    nmtui that does not obliterate your eyes

  • How much do you think I earn to afford paying for Office or Adobe? :) i’ve never paid for any of those, even though I’ve been using Adobe since CS5.

    As for donating: i agree, for now i sometimes help in contributing to the codebase in a bit smaller apps i actually can fix things in.

  • I used WPS, it was worse than Libre from the usability, plus quite bloated with all sorts of stuff (luckily, I don’t have to pay for the Office, and will never actually do that willingly). Haven’t used the other two, however, will have a look, thanks!

    Both GIMP and Krita are very nice and decent, just not powerful enough for many things I need photoshop for. Inkscape is actually much closer to Illustrator (not as powerful, but still), so that might be the only one with the “getting used to it” issue.

    Actually, one other thing I should have mentioned, is that I also transited from using Premiere Pro to Kdenlive (and sometimes even Blender for very light video editing). Kdenlive is an amazing success story for KDE, hope that happens to Krita as well.

    PS. The name GIMP sounds amazing! Love it, they should never change it )

  • This has been some time ago. Because of the apps I mentioned I had to transit after a week of usage. But in that week, it was kinda nice. I don’t think from the upkeep standpoint it’s too different from other distros. Like I said, the main hard-to-overcome issues come from hardware support, often due to vendors unwilling to release drivers for Linux. But most of the major vendors (intel, amd, nvidia, etc.) have decent linux support nowadays, even not considering the myriad of open-source drivers.

    I was also genuinely surprised with how well DEs nowadays support touchpads, and how customizable the gestures can be. That being said, ofc like I said, some of the apps do not release Wayland support (mainly the electron-based ones).

    In short, lots of things are a bit more complicated than on Mac or Windows, but a lot of other things are much more straightforward and customizable.

  • yes, i think we can all agree at least on the last point: that developing forward as a community, any Linux is better than corporate OSs. not because they're evil products of capitalist agenda (even though that's the case), but because developing them allows you to have a choice, and also incentivizes large companies to meet these security and freedom standards.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml

    Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions

    Open Source @lemmy.ml

    On the search for the ̶b̶e̶s̶t̶ decent presentation making software

    Linux @lemmy.ml

    I installed Linux on a 10 year-old Macbook and I loved it