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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I love this meme because every app on my phone designed by a company worth more than a million dollars fucking sucks, and the best app on my phone is RIF, an app designed by a single developer, and reanimated into a lich by a team of programmers for free

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait... RiF ain't dead?!

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I would say it's undead. Like a Lich. The fine folks at revanced.app have done an amazing job reanimating it. It's just as good as it was last June!

This guide should help

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can you log in yet? Last time I did this I couldn't log into an account, only browse.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm logged in, so might be worth a try

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Nice, I'll have to see if I can dig up my apk of the paid version.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Venn diagram go brrrr

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

“All-star” makes me worried there’s some hidden society of super competent developers remaining at the big software corps that we somehow never noticed.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

i want to boil people like this alive

in minecraft of course

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's hilarious that you think that proprietary software is actually better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Adobe products often have no real equal. It sucks, but it's the way it is. Gimp doesn't come close to Photoshop, Inkscape is almost as good as Adobe Illustrator, and After Effects is the most capable video editing software I've ever used.

It sucks that they try and lock you into proprietary file formats, like Substance Painter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, the only software that can stand toe to toe with Adobe is Affinity, and they're winning at the no subscription pricing. Other than that Adobe is really no equal when it comes to FOSS, a lot of those alternative is just us tolerating the flaw. Used to do stuff with photoshop, illustrator, flash, and after effect, switching to foss is...rough. Like you said, Gimp is barely usable, inkscape is good but far behind illustrator, and i don't think flash and after effect have any foss alternative when i looking for it. The only free alternative to after effect that is good is davinci resolve, but that's still proprietary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope all of these anti-GIMP folks have looked into the 3.0-RC* releases…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I'm already way passed my time of using image editing software, but i've also heard people say the same for 2.0, but in my experience i still have to tolerate a lot of UX shit. And crash. But cool nonetheless, i'll check it out. Professional still should just get Affinity rather than struggle with a release candidate.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Well, sometimes it happens. Lemmy was semi-broken during the APIocalypse, and there still isn't such a thing as a FOSS Facebook, or search engine backend for that matter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have heard that friendica is similar to facebook

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can you get (almost) every single person on there? Until not facebook is unreplaceable.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I haven't really looked into it, but isn't Friendica supposed to be the FOSS Fediverse Facebook?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If only Autodesk didn't exist, then yeah

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Add to that photo editing (as much as GIMP is great...). I would guess DAW and video editing would fall under that category, too...and good luck finding many AAA open source games.

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Read "The Mythical Man-Month".

Basically, a team of 5-8 motivated developers can create high quality, medium complexity software extremely fast.
But if the project is just a little too complex for one team of devs and you need more people, then you'll need a lot more people. And a lot more time.

Cause the more people you add to the project, the more overhead you have. Suddenly you need to pull devs off coding to bring new hires up to speed. You need to write documentation on coding style guidelines, hold meetings, maintain your infrastructure, negotiate with hardware suppliers, have someone fix the server room's door locks, schedule job interviews, etc. etc.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

the issue with this argument is that i don't care about who made the app when it doesn't work. that's why i still have a chromium based secondary browser, it doesn't matter that it's the work of a billion dollar company trying to get a monopoly when the website i'm on is broken. yes, the blame is on who made the website, not firefox. i still need to be able to use it somehow

[–] [email protected] 174 points 3 months ago (13 children)

It's funny because apps like Blender and Krita are actually competitive to proprietary software.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

Krita is fucking slow though :/

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And Linux/BSD are so good proprietary developers rip them off to whatever degree legally permissible.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 months ago

Microsoft servers also use linux

[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Blender had a reeeeaaally long way though, I remember a time where Blender was quite big already but Maya just was miles ahead in terms of usability. Nowadays they are not only even, Blender is probably used more often since it's not only free but more people know how to use it than Maya

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

And also maya sucks.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Are most open-source software developed by hobbyists?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is a very large corpus of FLOSS software out there serving everything from individual itches to whole industries. Any project that is important to someone's bottom line is likely to have paid developers working on it but often alongside hobbyists.

The project I predominately work on is about 90% paid developers but from lots of different companies and organisations. Practically though the developers don't care about the affiliation of the other developers they work with but the ideas and patches they bring to the project.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

That seems like a better system than say, Godot, who picks and chooses who is allowed to contribute.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

100% of the open-source software i contributed to was developed by hobbyists so, using that information, you can infer from only that information that only hobbyists can develop open-source software

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago

well, most as in numerically, technically yes :D

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

yes and they either become popular because of their usefulness and get organized like firefox/mozilla or they get co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified like chrome/chromium

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

firefox is squarely in the "co-opted by corporations and invariably enshitified"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

very true and as has happened to almost all projects once they get a critical mass of users and presence in the ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Firefox/Mozilla as an example is a bit of a stretch, given the fact that Mozilla Browser/Firefox is originally based on the open-sourced version of Netscape Navigator

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

very much a stretch, i was trying to relate the comment to current events and that was the closest thing i could come up with atm.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Fair enough

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