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 8 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 9 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 9 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 1 year 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.

Breaking Down Barriers: Starting today, all Subscribers to r/PoliticalHumor are now members of the Landed Gentry. - r/PoliticalHumor in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow.

What a nightmare this whole thing is turning out to be. I mean, imagine being the CEO right now. You want to seem strong, you don't want to back down, but every day the chaos seems to get crazier.

Imagine the pressure right now.