i don’t particularly enjoy having to constantly question what’s real and what isn’t anymore.

i don’t particularly enjoy having humanity’s well of information undermined by disinformation factories.

i don’t particularly enjoy every space i had to express myself creatively and experience others expressing themselves creatively being drowned out in mass-produced incoherent slop that i cannot possibly connect with.

i don’t particularly enjoy that climate change has now been rapidly accelerated for the sake of a tool that’s completely unreliable at doing anything it’s marketed to do and has done irreversible damage to the very fabric of our society.

do you?

you would think so, but somehow that never seems to be the case in practice. software has just been getting way more simplified visually while also getting way heavier with the likes of electron, GTK4, QML, etc.

for example, gnome-calculator uses nearly 300 MB of RAM on my system. that’s significantly more memory than my entire desktop environment (trinity). in the '00s everything was plastered with glossy skeuomorphic textures, 3D animations, transparency with blur, etc. and running all these different glossy programs together on one system still left you with a smaller memory footprint than gnome’s calculator.

we are fucked and our UIs don’t even get to be pretty anymore.

society as we know it fucking sucks so GOOD

instilling a form of authoritarianism (trampling over what the founding fathers fought for)

literally what could be more “authoritarian” than owning a fuckton of slaves? the founding fathers wouldn’t have liked him because by their racist, slave-owning, genocidal rapist standards, trump is too progressive.

it would do the world a lot of good if american liberals would stop glazing these assholes and finally admit that the US itself is the problem and stop using trump as a sin-eater for centuries of genocide, imperialism, and systemic oppression.

somewhere like china? where theft is incredibly rare? fuck off with your chauvinist BS

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it’s a bit of a pain, but this post here offers an in-depth explanation how to set up photoshop CC 2024, and should be adaptable to other adobe software and more recent versions.

alternatively, if you don’t mind using a version that’s a few years out of date (but well tested and supported), this script streamlines the whole setup process and has been successfully used to accommodate lightroom.

i hope this all helps. good luck!

and why do you think people were making those jokes?

next time ask nicely

the application has worked for some time; it just required a windows copy or piracy to actually get the application files

china, being a dictatorship of the proletariat and having an actually-working participatory democratic process, has its press in the hands of the people. western countries, being dictatorships of the bourgeoisie, have their press in the hands of a few billionaires, and somehow according to shitlibs that makes it “free and fair” lmfao

when are liberals going to drop the nationalism and admit that america has always been like this