I pay monthly fees for lots of stuff. A newspaper, Internet, water and heating,...
For sure I'd rather not, but I mostly I don't have an alternative option. With Adobe the case is such.
I'm paying 36 per month for the whole creative cloud. Whole. Photoshop, illustrator, AE,...
It's been a few months, but all of them are just better. Unfortunately it is what it is. And now, now with ai, it's the only option reasonable.
Russia has more to spend. Ukraine doesn't which is becoming more and more apparent. Luckily that US bill was approved. But still there will need to be some immense luck and enginuity for Ukraine not to fall. Not to mention for Europe to stop this common delusion, come together and form a modern and strong army to step behind Ukraine with long term support. Probably with soldiers as well.
What is actionable? Maybe this :Make ux more like ps so more people will be able to use it or want to use it? :)
You want small things to fix? Small actionable things. I'm saying there is a broader issue that you cannot easily patch.
I don't care about your criticism of ps, many people have tons of criticism, I have tons, none of it matters with the situation at hand.
What was gimp project about? Pushing users away with design patterns that exist nowhere else?
Pros don't give gimp a chance but many of us still test try it. It's not viable, not only because Adobe is a must have because of interoperability but because it's faster to work in, it's faster, more stable, more supported,... literally there is no category in which it was worse. Ux is not the best for sure, but it's still way better than gimp.
Even more, everything works in the same patterns as the users expect. Same as other graphical programs. It's easier to use, easier to switch, easier to use similar software. That's ux. Gimp doesn't have that.
Because of all that, it doesn't have a target audience beyond someone who is just very determined to use something free.
You are complaining about the amateur? A pro will never use gimp. Ps is too integrated into professional work, not too mention it has a better ux, it's more stable, uses more for formats, had better support,... The semi pros still prefer to use affinity. You are only left with amateurs! And still, they prefer to use krita, a program not even meant for this kind of work!!!
There is no doubt that there are big problems with gimp.
I understand it's not a clone, but the truth is ps has a much better ux. There is no reason to not to copy the better ux.
I tried this plugin, it does very little to make the experience better, it actually makes it worse because it's more difficult to find things, when you can't easily Google to find them.
I tried it last year in a failed attempt to get of ps, which I to every few years.
I can't name specifics, but ps is just more intuitive, more user friendly, faster, more stable, gives you more for formats... I don't even think ps is all that. Even if we forget Adobe owns the pro space here, it's just not viable to use gimp professionaly.
I never understood why gimp doesn't just copy all the user flows from photoshop when it's clear that not only they work, but all users are familiar with them from other software.
Well obviously it doesn't "know" know, it's not alive.
We are all generating the most likely answer from the training data. But going back to the original question : what do you fear chatgpt would say that would be detrimental to a 16 year old?
So you decide what is fair and what not? Its so fairly distributed now, isn't it?
Its stable because it's issued on a schedule? Lol? Wtf? And why would this be a benefit? This is a joke!
You don't understand bitcoin and crypto. Especially the incentive part needed to run it.
Is vitalik the boss of eth? Give me a break. You arguments are weak af.
Pollution baby. Btc is like there just because it was first. There is nothing there.
Usd is not programmable. You are completely missing the point, you don't understand what it's about. Which is not surprising. Btc is boring polluted. Yeah ok it exists. Nobody that works in crypto cares about btc. It's for investment companies, hedge funds and people in suits.
And most of it will end up locked in smart contracts on other chains lol.
I don't even know where to begin. Btc was distrubuted as fairly as anything else, it's not as stable as since we have stablecoins, scarcity means nothing, it's decentralised as much as anything else.
Must I repeat that it just exists? You can't do anything with it. It's like comparing a pretty rock to a computer.
Today all what btc does is pollute.
No! It's all scams and it's a pyramid scheme! It's pointless and bad for environment and cryptobros and it can't work because it's getting more expensive (literally an argument I heard).
I don't even care if someone doesn't like crypto, I have friends that don't care for it, but they don't try to rationalize it with some lame ass arguments that can be debunked by a child. I don't understand why lemmy is full of these folks.
I pay monthly fees for lots of stuff. A newspaper, Internet, water and heating,... For sure I'd rather not, but I mostly I don't have an alternative option. With Adobe the case is such.