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Ardens @ Core_of_Arden @lemmy.ml
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  • Linux phones are more important now than ever.

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  • I don't agree!

    A linux phone, or any other open source alternative, has ALWAYS been more important than the ones we've got. Being locked into an eco-system, has always been bad for the regular user. It's about companies controlling people and the market, and it should never have to be a choice between a rock and a hard place.

    I really wish that the Firefox phone had gained more support. And I wish that there will soon be a linux-phone for the regular person, all over the world.

    But I guess people in general keep choosing to lock themselves in, by using Google and Apple...

  • The state of Linux phones in 2025

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  • Don't want or need any of those things you mention. I want a phone, I want to be able to send messages, I want GPS and a camera. Good battery life, wifi and enough memory and storage... And then privacy...

  • Anyone else lose the Bluez5 AAC audio codec after upgrading to Debian 13?

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  • Well, ACC is Apple, so go ogg onstead... ;-)

  • Empaths✨

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  • Based on? Prejudice?

  • Empaths✨

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  • That's not how empathy works, but good for you...

    Are you trying to shame people who are empathic?

  • "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint

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  • Thanks for that pessimistic comment.

  • "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint

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  • Is that not a good reason, if you are trying to help people, and competitors likely would damage that mission? There's a thousand possible reasons, and I really wonder why you can't imagine any of them...

  • "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint

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  • Maybe, but not necessarily. You see, there could be plenty of reasons to protect ones code...

  • "I support it only if it's open source" should be a more common viewpoint

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  • ...or non-profit... But I agree...

  • Do you love Open Source software? Want to turn your passion into a paid job 💵 ? LibreOffice is hiring a remote Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time 📢

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  • I don't love things. I might like them, and I do like LibreOffice, Firefox and lot's of other OS software. I can't take your job, but I hope you find someone for the position! :-)

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • Almost all I work with, have switched to Affinity. Both because of the price tag, but also because they are so tired of Adobe... A great tool is not worth much, when it's rented from a big and greedy control freak... It's insane how much they want to install on your computer...

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • Because "best" is obvious a subjective statement, and you wanted to argue that...

    Inkscape can make a CMYK-file, with an addon. It's pretty easy. Besides CMYK is only relevant is you want to print, and most graphics work today is for screens. It literally takes about 7 seconds to make it CMYK.

    What feature do you need, that Inkscape can't do? Is it really the 7 seconds to make it CMYK, that breaks you?

  • App for downsizing MP3s automatically when copying to a phone?

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  • Well, it's not great to take an already compressed audiostream like 320kbps mp3, and then compress it again. Use your FLACs if possible. Then, I'd recommend that you use .ogg - they give better compression (smaller files), but with better sound than mp3...

    There's a lot of apps out there, but AFAIK not anyone who does this automatically for you.

  • RAM

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  • I know the feeling. Maybe not always videos, but I also keep some tabs open, that I have to get back to. Then, after a couple of weeks, I finally either bookmark them or delete them. :-)

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • Sure, you can use it to edit photos. That's just not it's strength.

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • CMYK is easy to work around.

    So, your argument is, that you can find 1 tool where AI is better, and then everything else doesn't matter?

    Well, fine - keep paying a sh*tload of money for Adobe, and use AI, that's totally fine by me. :-)

    Oh, if you'd be so kind, show me something made in AI, that Inkscape can't do?

  • RAM

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  • Strange. I use Firefox with 18 tabs open right now, and I use 1,5 GB of RAM...

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • First of all, you don't have to go back. Second of all, being perfect is a pretty high bar for any software - can you mention any on this list, or even commercial ones, that have no flaws or bugs, or could not be better? Third. I've used it since it was part of Navigator, and I have never lost any data. Without being tech-support for Thunderbird, I might think that you have somehow installed either a different version of Thunderbird, which makes a new user-folder. Your data might still have been there.

    Sorting is done the same way in Outlook and Thunderbird, by clicking on the subject you want to sort it by. How you couldn't do that, is beyond me...

    But, as I said at first - you don't have to go back. I guess you felt like making this post about complaining - something I don't think that any software in this list (or beyond this list) could be above...

  • Discover Hidden Gems: Open-Source Software You Should Know About

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  • I know what you mean. Back in the day I worked at a graphics bureau, making logos and other illustrations. I worked in Illustrator, and though I could make what I wanted, when I tried Inkscape, it all just got so much easier - and so much more fun and intuitive to work with. Before I felt more like a constructor, and with Inkscape I feel more like a crafter/artist.