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jlow, 1 year ago to piracy in How do companies know if I use cracked software or assets for my personal gig?

I’d also encourage you to look into FOSS alternatives but I have a friend who’s a graphic designer and he’s been pirating the crap out of Adobe since he began his studies in the early 2000s. He says neither he nor any of his collagues (all freelancers) ever had a problem with pirated software. It’s literally unheard of. And if you think about it, how is Adobe gonna find out if you block their phoning home with a firewall? Printers don’t give a damn (and couldn’t tell), neither can clients or random people on the internet. No one is ever going to be “Nice work but can you quickly somehow proof to me that you actually have the ridiculously overpriced subscription for that barely functioning design suite eveyone uses because there’s no alternative (except for Affinity maybe)?”

jlow, 1 year ago to linux in Scribus 1.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released as a Major Update

Used Adobe for years, made an effort in the last year to switch to FOSS, mainly Inkscape and Scribus. And yes, as other comments have mentioned these tools have some weird quirks and some things don’t work. But that’s the same for Adobe and most other software. I remember switching from Macromedia Freehand (lol, remember that) to Illustrator back in the day and everything felt just wrong and awful in tge beginning (until you learned to work around the quirks?). It’s super hard to tell how much it’s “Software Bad” vs “Not Used to New Thing” and this will be different for everybody as well. But nobody (including the software) is stopping you from using this professionally, I just finished a 20 page PDF for a client with Scribus, used it to print my 32 page comic etc.

jlow, 1 year ago to memes in 🇪🇺 How the EU Feels about

Learning from the “friends” on the other site of the atlantic!

jlow, 1 year ago to fuck_cars in MAY USE FULL LANE

Also horizontal fronts on cars make accidents even more deadly.

jlow, 1 year ago to fuck_cars in Yes, also Teslas

I bet there are statistics on just how much space is wasted on cars (roads, parking space) but I don’t have them handy. It will probaly pretty maddening when only considering “urban” areas but I wonder if it’s more or less of 1% of the world’s total landmass …

jlow, 1 year ago to piracy in Plex To Launch a Store For Movies and TV Shows

Yeah, but there is no way in hell they somehow convinced movie studios to let us have drm-free files. It would be amazing but I can’t see it happening.

jlow, 1 year ago to piracy in How do companies know if I use cracked software or assets for my personal gig?

If it’s not Adobe your pirating but a small firm consider buying their stuff if you can afford it. Yes, I know this is the piracy forum but just like with indie games I think if you have the money and get value out of it then it’s cool to support actually people, that need to eat. Global Evilcorps surely not, but people are supporting you via Patreon so why not give some of that money to the people who develop the tools that help you make that money …

jlow, 1 year ago to privacyguides in German court declares “Do Not Track” to be legally binding

Yeah, true. But maybe the perfect time to try the new translation feature in Firefox? ^__^

jlow, 1 year ago to linux in KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session

I’ve been using Gnome for a long time, then Dash to Dock broke, switched to Plasma, not looking back ^__^

jlow, 1 year ago to piracy in is there a way to watch pirated shows/movies together?

opentogethertube.com

Can’t do .mkv unfortunately which is what almost everyone uses on the high seas but if it’s .mp4 or YT you’re golden.

jlow, 1 year ago to piracy in Why so many *arr services? Why not 1 service that works with all media types?

Because it makes more sense to have software do one thing good and not many things bad. There are many examples of this, iTunes is a classic but also Jellyfin, I like that they’re focussing on video because that is very complex in itself. To also do comics, podcasts, audiobooks, comics, books etc. meana much more complexity, things that can influence and trip each other, diversion of work etc. Yes, would be very cool to have one app that can play everything perfectly but that’s almost impossible. To do one thing good isn’t.

jlow, 1 year ago to memes in Its getting old.

No because freedom and innovation have nothing to do with capitalism? If anything the opposite?

jlow, 1 year ago to fuck_cars in MAY USE FULL LANE

For the person not in the car, obviously 👍

jlow, 1 year ago to piracy in (IPTV) 🌍📺This frequently-updated github list gives you TV stations from around the world [x-post]

Would love for this to work with Jellyfin but for me it just poplates the channels section, where it takes me to another page before I can actually watch something and it takes about 10 seconds to load a channel. Not really the analogue TV experience I had hoped to recreate ^__^

jlow, 1 year ago to memes in 🇪🇺 How the EU Feels about

This one is completely about the people who pretend to “care about the children” but coincidentally also sell the software that does the proposed CSAM scanning. It’s a money making-scheme for them. Shit like this makes me lose the last bit of hope I have for democracy (really hard to not put this into quotes by this point … +__+).