MusketeerX

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Google confirms Gmail is “here to stay” amid speculation over plans to scrap the email service in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Agreed, it's so good.

Bluesky, a trendy rival to X, finally opens to the public in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I got an invite to join last year and signed up to test it out.

Felt like there was a lot less people and a lot less content on it than Mastadon.

Unless the users/content now really starts to take off, there's not enough on there to make it interesting.

Hello, Dude. Thanks for coming. I'm Jackie Treehorn. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Loved the house used for the indoor shots in this scene. I believe it's a famous piece of brutalist architecture in the LA Hills.

How Do You Combat Anti-Adware Blockers on Android? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

This.

I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of "never visit" sites.

In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.

But to read the odd crappy article? No I'm not disabling my ad blocker.

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Affinity Photo: Calling out a hero in this subscription dystopia (affinity.serif.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Last year I got an iPad pro as a gift. I've been meaning to do more with it especially photo editing and I finally got around to looking into it.

But....every damn photo app seems to be a subscription. The ones that aren't are very basic.

Until I found Affinity Photo 2.

Holy hell, an extremely full featured photo app with no sub?! It's like Lightroom and Photoshop rolled into one for a one-time payment of $A30.

I took a few days to learn it and once you do it's very good.

For the cost of buying Affinity forever I could get Adobe's photo plan for just 2 months!

For someone like me who will use this stuff lightly, going some months without using it at all, subscription software sucks.

Well done to Affinity for providing a high quality alternative. Give them a look - they also have Windows and Mac versions.

This sounds like an ad but it's not, I'm just so tired of having subs pushed in my face - especially on the app store - that when I find a good alternative I feel like shouting about it!

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This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads (lemmy.world)
 

Automatically creating a shadow account for everyone on Instagram?

Even allowing people to follow that account?

Sounds like they really wanted to push Threads out the door in a big way.