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Then place it in the issues/suggestions tab of the project instead of mocking the project on mainstream social media. If you’re that upset with the labor of others that you get to coast on for free, you don’t belong in the conversation.

I’m tired of dealing with these kinds of people, and I’m willing to infer that maintainers, IT personnel, and friends trying to help this guy with their proprietary problems are too.

Lawyers, mostly. Document editors and similar programs have a lot of components that will be unlikely to be disputed in court if someone implements a similar UI and taskflow.

Adobe’s suite is probably not as simple.

Reverse engineered products, if not clean room, will result in unfriendly letters to your door at best.

Future is now, old man.

It’s infamously hard to invest in non-state-controlled assets in China - that’s one of the reasons why their domestic real estate industry became used as a financial asset more than housing; it was somewhat independent from government control.

In contrast, the USD largely has no regulations on how much capital enters or leaves the country, and private assets in places such as the New York Stock Exchange aren’t going to be seized by federal authorities on a whim.

The mega wealthy of China already have to jump through many hoops to move their fortunes outside of the nation to places where they can properly invest without CCP oversight, so if one day their currency did become financialized similar to the USD and was allow to flow without restrictions, the outflow would be immense and likely very damaging to their domestic economy.

Other than the GBP and the Yen, it’s one of the most financialized currencies that is often used as “the intermediary” for conversions into other currencies and for international transactions. You’ll always have someone who will be willing to take your USD off you in exchange for product or another currency.

There are probably other alternatives (like the Euro and GBP) that could be used by these nations, but I’d imagine the USD has the least restrictions and the widest reach compared to each.

(This is also why the Yuan can’t replace the dollar, China places a lot of measures to restrict outflow of their currency to prevent capital flight)

Free sauceware

That belongs in a feature request though, not on mainstream social media. I’m not going to comb through feeds to try and figure out what bugfixes or features need priority development.

I would even go as so far to say actually placing the request in the proper place matters more than donations.

My stance has been forged by the repeated disappointing interactions that I’ve had with people who I spend painstaking amounts of time illustrating how to solve their problems with these tools and why a certain design quirk is the way it is vs. the proprietary model.

Without fail, the kinds of users like the screenshotted poster will look at me with a blank face or reply in forum chats with the same statement: “But can’t they just make it usable like [enshittified software] instead?”

That’s a fine, nuanced take. I think the key part is that accepting that you are using a flawed option because it’s critical for your employer’s standard practices or required for a client’s needs (or is the only option that is acceptable to said employer or client) is perfectly fine. You are accepting that the enshittified software is aggravating and not what you’d prefer, but aren’t dismissive of alternatives and would consider them if you had the flexibility to.

What I’m trying to poke at here is people finding the “perfect savior” to their existing tools that were made out of choice (that enshittified) or complacency (unwilling to move until they find something that is effectively a reverse engineered clone). Of course, that usually doesn’t exist, so they whine about how “FOSS doesn’t match everything I want!” despite being capable of learning and not truly bound to their tools by say an employer.

“Hurdle to use” (In my opinion) is just the outcome of being used to the old platform rather than poor design by the developer (even if some FOSS projects may need some UI love).

That’s the kicker though. The poster framed it as Adobe was the only game in town that was abusing them, a friend told them about a service that was free and had their entire feature set, but it was rejected due to UI and platform concerns.

Not all free software will reach feature or UI parity with their proprietary competition. That’s just reality. However, if you are paying a grand total of $0 for the alternative and have no interest in being constructive either through submitting a feature request or contributing code (donating doesn’t have an obligation for anything so in this circumstance that wouldn’t factor), then you should just either accept the software “as is” (which is a key component of most licenses), or accept that it’s not for you.

Stay with the devil that you know if you disregard positioned alternatives for not being “suitable enough”, and if you want to change that, be proactive and open-minded. Not bitch.

Honestly I would tell people like this screenshotted poster to suck it up or go fuck themselves, because this is free software that is provided for you as is and for use as you wish. If you think the software isn’t “adjusted enough” to meet your needs, then place requests for features in the relevant channels, be patient and try to work with the existing tools on offer, or keep shelling out booku bucks for Adobe’s continually enshittifying service.

Accept your fate with the corpos instead of bitching that the community effort options aren’t in your Goldilocks zone, shitbag.

God, this is why I hated Apple users at my old IT job. They’d bitch about the continually enshittifying status quo of their software and platform, and in the same statement reject all alternatives for not being “a smooth transition”.

Edit: on a more positive note, Kritia, FreeCAD, and Kdenlive are all great and multiplatform.

Clerotri is the google free client for android (on the Stoat/Revolt wiki they have a list of 3rd party clients), and it’s recommended if you’re using GrapheneOS.

As for mobile voice chat, the strange thing is Clerotri has it while the official app doesn’t.

Another comment mentioned the self-hosting requirement to screenshare (because of presumed costs)

TBF fluxer doesn’t paywall anything if you host it yourself (since you’re obviously not tied to their infrastructure)

I feel like I’ve been caught by the hyperbole here, but there are discord alternatives with all those features.

No financial incentive for it lol

I’m in a similar boat with my own ripped media, and the answer is there’s no simple automated way (that’s why it’s easier to “acquire” from a source that already has things labelled and organized on the internet rather than do things yourself). Your best luck is to check the index of episodes on the back of the box and try to use the thumbnails to line up titles with the episodes manually.

There’s no script for this though.

I’d assume AAA and top overall best sellers on Steam (with the exception of games like Fortnite and Minecraft).

I do have Minecraft installed, but only modded versions (purchased original copy in 2013).

I don’t think I even have a game from the top 20 installed. They all keep shitting the bed.

Some instances disable downvotes for this reason (so when using a client only upvotes are used).

You can also use the scaled filter to see more niche things that may have been buried otherwise.

Plutonium Launcher fixes the BO1 PC port, it works great now (even on linux).