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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir and flock are your enemy.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like GN but Steve is definitely a little smug at times, but he’s earned it considering how often he’s correct.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m going to lose the main things I like about Android, like customizing things and installing my own software. Then yeah I would actually jump ship to the alternative because the chips are faster, the battery life is better, and the software would effectively be on par.

  The point is that the jump would no longer be from a somewhat open platform to a closed one. It would be a jump from a closed platform to another closed platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been long enough now that I can’t really remember off the top of my head. I want to say I started using Photoshop about a year or two after CS6 came out? And I would have been using GIMP for at least a few years prior to that before I had ever even seen the Photoshop UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question on TV's⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically any TV out there you can get rid of the annoying post processing. But none of them are going to be that way out of the box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used both Photoshop and GIMP, in fact I used GIMP first and that’s what I learned on. Then I tried Photoshop and it was immediately way more intuitive as to where things are and how the UI works, same with Affinity based on my little experience with it.

  Older FOSS stuff tends to struggle quite a bit with UX, which makes sense cause it’s mostly programmers and not UI designers working on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh for sure, I’m never paying Adobe anything. More just speaking on some frustration that GIMP seems to be sitting in the exact same location it has been for so long.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get where you’re coming from, but GIMP honestly just kinda sucks from a UX perspective nowadays. The core of the app seems to be fine, but it’s just not particularly intuitive to use compared to the commercial offerings.

  Maybe that’ll change one day, but it really does feel like the interface has been the same for the past 15 years at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI moves to allow “mature apps” on its platforms⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d generally agree, the industry itself seems to be high risk for exploitation because of the very nature of it.

  Realistically though this isn’t going to help that much, most AI generated content that tries to look real ends up quite uncanny. So this is probably more likely to cannibalise some of the least problematic parts of the industry like digital art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. agencies back banning top-selling home routers on security grounds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right after I upgrade my omada setup…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really quite insane, I’m from Canada and want a strong manufacturing industry here because it became clear during the pandemic that the manufacturing industry here is insanely anemic. The current admin however is just running on the most insane premise possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus moves US-bound manufacturing to avoid tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Crazy, it’s almost like just tariffs don’t make companies build in the destination country and you actually have to incentivize the choices you want those companies to make.

  The supply chain for electronics is established in Asia, if you want to build in North America then you need to help ease the pain of the distance from that supply chain so people are actually interested in making a new one elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. Senator Tom Cotton probes Intel board over CEO Lip-Bu Tan's former China links, raises national security concerns amid Cadence scandal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems fair to be honest, the guy was CEO of Cadence while they were getting around export controls. Probably not a bad idea to check things out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro tip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  well, they did say they were in a rush

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is getting rid of its Trending page and Trending Now list⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve installed user scripts to replace the player with the normal one and used unlock to hide the feed in my subscriptions page. Did the same with revanced on my phone.

  They’re just designed to be addictive, I wasn’t getting anything out of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playing with Hate: How Far-Right Extremists Use Minecraft to Gamify Radicalisation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Curseforge was developed by Curse and Twitch after their acquisition. Their ownership by Overwolf was after the app and website was already well established.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends if you can actually find a 9070XT at the price they advertised it at. Once that happens I’ll be convinced, right now though that’s very much felt like a bit of a bait and switch. Holding out hope though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox 360/PS3/(to a lesser extent) Wii owners represent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more: making their cards competitive on price and performance lately for team red

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨THE shrimp that fried the rice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bugsnax

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He didn’t ban news on their platforms in Canada. He disabled links to news platforms because the Canadian government passed a bizarre law that forced them to pay news agencies for the privilege of hot linking to them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run a power clean cycle which should help, then just replace the foam pads they saturate with ink for the cleaning

  They’re not perfect but they’re still the most consumer friendly option on the market at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too late for me personally, I’ve gone ahead and moved over to Zen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lenovo responds to Trump tariffs in unexpected style⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This mostly just comes across like a statement to calm investors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s super hit or miss, odds are it’s using azure though and not just running a model locally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Arc Browser - Changing focus when the main product isn't even finished?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah Zen is really nice, was going to try Arc one time but was immediately turned off by the account requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky’s upcoming premium plan won’t give paid users special treatment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be completely honest I think most sane people are going to be okay if bluesky ends up as even a slightly better version of what Twitter was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Of all the sources to use for accurate info on current events I’d say Reuters is probably one of the best. I’m not so naive as to think that these deals aren’t basically just trying to stall any meaningful cases on the legality of these models.

  If nothing else though at least these companies get to be propped up for their work in a small way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I investigated millions of tweets from the Kremlin’s ‘troll factory’ and discovered classic propaganda techniques reimagined for the social media age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.