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Google Search, Whatsapp, and TikTok on list of 22 services targeted by EU’s tough new DMA (www.theverge.com)

The European Commission has published an official list of services offered by ‘gatekeepers’ that must comply with obligations under the new Digital Markets Act. Companies now have six months to comply with the rules.

atomkarinca ,

they have 5 months to prove that it’s not a gatekeeping service, if they cannot do that then it will be added to the list. the list gets updated every 6 months.

atomkarinca ,

if you mean demands of eu then they’re all clear:

digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en

atomkarinca ,

“What will be the consequences of non-compliance?

Fines: of up to 10% of the company’s total worldwide annual turnover, or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements”

it’s a tough pill to swallow.

atomkarinca ,

you’re not exactly saying the thing on the meme, but god, the line is awfully thin. capitalism IS the unfathomably rich.

politicians are doing exactly what they’re there for: protecting the interets of the unfathomably rich.

atomkarinca ,

it’s true though

atomkarinca ,

here

atomkarinca , (edited )

stacking wm -> wayfire

tiling wm -> sway [corrected, i don’t know what was going through my mind]

terminal emulator -> alacritty or foot

atomkarinca ,

thanks for the correction, i don’t what i was thinking while writing that. i guess i couldn’t decide floating or stacking for wayfire so the whole thing broke down :)

atomkarinca ,

it’s obscenely over priced and this cultist shit doesn’t make it any better. to me shift mq6 is miles better.

and i almost forgot, didn’t they try to pull “copying free software verbatim and slapping a different logo on it”? for a whole group of software?

atomkarinca ,

My first point was “it’s obscenely overpriced”. So let’s dissect that:

  • Quadcore CPU (4x1.5 GHz Cortex-A53)
  • 3 GiB ram
  • 32 GiB storage
  • 720x1440 px resolution.

That’s almost worse than my 2015 idol3 which has an octa-core CPU. And it’s freakin’ $1.299!!

On the other hand let’s look at Shift6MQ:

  • Octacore CPU (4x2.8 + 4x1.7GHz)
  • 8 GiB ram
  • 128 GiB storage
  • 1080x2160 px resolution.

And it’s €577 (which makes $627) which is less than half of what Librem 5 goes for. Would you call Librem 5 overpriced now?

You somewhat agree with my third point but add that Purism develops software for mobile Linux (which I don’t deny) and say that running pmOS would be less useful without it (which I don’t agree). There’s Plasma Mobile, there’s SXMO (which I love the most) and lately even Gnome Mobile feels more snappy than Phosh. FOSS always finds a way.

Let’s talk about my second point. I said that “this cultist shit doesn’t make it any better” referring to the Louis Rossmann video. If you’ve ever watched the video, you would’ve seen that there’s a real person with a real problem and being stonewalled by Purism (which is not a singular incident by the way, I have seen numerous people saying the same shit). The thing you should’ve done would be to sympathize with that customer instead of coping for the company (if you’re not the person that wrote the e-mail, of course). But here you are debatelording with semantics. Not on its payroll? What the fuck does that even mean? Why would I care about who’s on whose payroll? I care about the community.

atomkarinca ,

second this

atomkarinca ,

and it is usually one time, unless you plan to add or remove features

you don’t update your system? this is what turned me away from gentoo. i setup my system just the way i wanted but everytime you upgrade you re-compile everything again and again. and some of those updates require some tinkering.

atomkarinca ,

the frustration is awfully familiar, i must say.

the thing about gimp and krita is: gimp is an image manipulation software and krita is a drawing software, and as far as i can see from my so’s work, photoshop is a somewhat mixture of those two. from the jump, we’re not comparing apples to apples, unfortunately.

but you already answered your own question, i think.

see, foss programs aren’t there to be a drop-in replacment for their closed sourced alternatives. they emerge from a need from the community. what is more, usually you will have multiple programs encompassing a single workflow of their closed sourced counterparts; meaning they are modular.

so even if there was some other program apart from these, it would have a learning curve, unless adobe open sources photoshop. so there is a viable alternative (which i know from experience) but there is a learning curve, albeit a steep one for someone coming from photoshop.

you shouldn’t limit yourself, but it would immensely improve your understanding of the software if you try to recreate simple pieces of your workflow using gimp, once in a while.

atomkarinca ,

been using it for almost a year now.

it’s been 18 years full time linux/bsd for me and it went knoppix -> ubuntu -> fedora -> arch linux -> gentoo -> freebsd -> void

arch linux in 2008 was really good, and lasted for a couple of years. gentoo was a chore, because it’s fully source based. freebsd is rock solid, amazing amazing system, i would be still using it if it weren’t for aec applications and games. still using it on my homeserver.

void is blazing fast, highly reliable rolling release package system, amazingly simple init system. i have a 3060ti and it’s working surprisingly good on wayland. it’s just hassle-free for me, i love it.

atomkarinca ,

yeah, with wi-fi. i didn’t have any issues using wifi. like i said earlier, some applications don’t have freebsd versions and manually compiling and keeping them update is a lot of hassle. other than that highly reliable system.

atomkarinca ,

I might sound like an old fart but here’s my 2 cents.

I was exactly in the same situation in 2005. I was heavily invested in commercial products but I wanted to switch to an all open source workflow. My advice would be to start small. First dual boot with windows. Get your DAW working at a basic level. Then get your hardware setup the way you are fully comfortable. Then try to get your visual instruments to work.

Keep in mind that it will be a somewhat different workflow. Linux is highly modular. You can definitely achieve the same results but sometimes with more tools. Jack is an amazing sound system which is now seamlessly integrated into the system with Pipewire. It makes routing your audio stupidly simple and opens up a whole different universe of possibilities.

All this is coming from someone that’s using an all open source approach for almost 20 years now.

And if it does’t work, it doesn’t. No need to swim against the current.

atomkarinca ,

jeff bezos is a monarch. he has an empire with people doing literal slave-work and practically untouchable by the judicial system. if you are not willing to overthrow him now, you won’t be willing to overthrow a “literal” monarch. same goes for every billionaire.

as there are middlemen protecting the billionaires now -like mass media, military industrial complex, heavily armed local police, union busters, corrupt judicial system etc.- there will be middlemen protecting the monarch then.

you think you would be willing to overthrow the monarch because it’s not real, a fantasy. but you’re willingly turning a blind eye to the exact same thing that is real and happening right now.

atomkarinca ,

and as if like there will be one monarch to rule them all! all by himself, waiting by the dock, preparing for a duel.

just because we don’t officially call it monarchy, people think that it’s a whole new system. every critique you have against monarchy is valid for the billionaires and vice versa.

atomkarinca ,

if it’s a really old laptop, Ubuntu might be overkill, spec-wise. In that case i would suggest Alpine Linux, it’s super lightweight and a really good distro for server use.

atomkarinca ,

i think codeberg.org would be the flagship instance, since they’re the ones that has been supporting the development most as far as i can see.

due to the curvature of the Earth a really long building can't have walls that are both parallel and level.

Aparently, I’ve conflated Level with Plumb, the walls cannot be parallel and plumb. Due to the curve, the center of gravity for the walls would require them to angle in slightly together or not be plumb.

atomkarinca ,

to be fair, scientifically that is true for all buildings.

atomkarinca ,

quantity doesn’t always mean quality and when the subject is aur, i wouldn’t count that as a metric. there are lots of orphaned packages, packages that have their source / binary / git versions, older libraries etc.

it USED TO be a nice repository, i don’t why. but it’s one of the main reasons i’m keeping away from arch because i cannot trust those packages anymore.

atomkarinca ,

i guess it’s an instinct to want most people to move away from reddit (or windows, ms office etc.). but unfortunately this is not what free software is about. i’m not being cynical here, let me explain.

think of the time when you didn’t know anything about windows; you had to learn your way around, its quirks. now that you have used it for so long that those things have just become second nature.

i used identi.ca, i have been using mastodon for 4 years now, i started using lemmy last year, i have been using irc for i don’t know how long, i started using linux in 2005, i have been using floss professional audio software for more than 15 years, i’m even transitioning my professional arch/eng workflow to floss software.

know that free software is not for everyone, not because these are not capable, but because it’s hard to delearn and relearn a new workflow.

which means… lemmy most probably won’t be the new reddit, but it’s already a nice platform that it never needs to be the new reddit.

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