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Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.

America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.

America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.

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[–] DevilsJaundice@europe.pub 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I loved the Affinity stuff. Had completely replaced Adobe with Affinity before they got bought up and killed off. 

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 7 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Affinity photo isn't dead, they released the suite for free, but did unfortunately inject AI into it, which thankfully you can ignore if you don't pay for it.

However, as with all proprietary products owned by investment corporations, it's currently at the 'capture the market' phase, after which it will enshittify, putting us in the same situation we are with adobe now. The only long-term solution is to adopt and donate to open-source alternatives, like Krita, Scribus, Inkscape, and Kdenlive.

[–] DevilsJaundice@europe.pub 1 points 7 hours ago

That's sort of what I meant. I've used the new Affinity software for a bit, and it's technically great. But, at the same time, I know they're not going to keep up with it, especially since it's free. At best, they'll use it to test new AI data farming techniques, but otherwise they'll probably just let it sit and die. 

[–] definitemaybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 14 hours ago

Seriously: quick AI summary since I didn't want to write this all up:

Godot operates on a non-profit, open-source model, supported by donations and corporate sponsorship through the Godot Foundation, rather than a traditional profit-driven software company. It is completely free and open-source under the MIT license, meaning no royalties, seat fees, or revenue cuts are taken from developers.

And Godot is rapidly gaining marketshare, at the cost of Unity:

graph showing marketshare changes of major game engines in last 13 years

Source article

And Valve's success with the Deck seems like it might be a catalyst for Linux going mainstream.

And Europe is making a lot of moves towards digital sovereignty, too.

All signs point to us entering a golden age for open software.

It will be interesting to see how the AI bubble bursting, destroying trillions of dollars of fake tech company paper wealth, affects this transition. I expect it will accelerate the decline of Big Tech.