I’ve been wanting to try to leave Windows for Linux, but I just can’t find a replacement for AutoHotkey that can do everything that it can. It would have to be some kind of weird combination of various Python libraries, AutoKey, and Espanso, and even then it’s either not as easy or downright convoluted at best.
I also can’t find any FOSS image editor that can do this.
Android is open-source, I thought.
I just hope that FOSS doesn’t become a regular training ground for immoral capitalists to assault.
Well, there was an article I read elsewhere on Lemmy that said that FOSS is an enemy of capitalism by being a cheaper competitor, so capitalist dogs may try to attack FOSS developers’ resources and willpower to keep going so they can funnel all of us users over to their paid products.
Gosh, I hope these things don’t start targeting Lemmy instances.
Right, so the buck stops here with FOSS, finally!
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It goes both ways: look at how much Lemmy usage has grown, and Lemmy’s existence is due to technology. We can protest with our dollars and time by leaving such products behind. Greed is independent of tech itself.
prevent communities from becoming echo chambers
I suspect this will still become a problem since we can subscribe to whichever communities we like and vice versa.
Trolls, bots, and scammers make them necessary at a minimum, and then the subliminal messaging from the cronies of politicians, etc. make them welcome. Bots are easier to make than ever before so you can’t compare the past with the present that easily. kbin.social died last year because of relentless spam bots posting garbage/malware links 100x/sec.
Ha, yeah, though at least it allows potatoes to run it! I wonder how smoothly the textures could be remade…
I just discovered it last night so I’ll need to find out!
That makes sense. The extent of my desktop-publishing work has typically involved bifold programs, so I use LibreOffice Writer’s “brochure”-printing mode (which automatically sets every 4 pages as double-sided quarters of 1 sheet) because I can’t stand how bad element selection in MS Publisher is. I’ve never used InDesign and want to avoid Adobe as much as possible since my org is already neck-deep in Microsoft’s subscriptions as it is.
Don’t get me wrong; Scribus can clearly make a lot of beautiful stuff. I just can’t even start to figure it out; I gotta find video tutorials or something.
The picture’s off-center stance is bugging me lol.
Thanks, I had tried Scribus for something unrelated to this, but found it to be horribly counterintuitive in terms of how to even get started. I think it had a major update somewhat recently so I suppose I could retry it…
I was just thinking of exploring that, yeah! Thanks for the nudge. “Parasites” is certainly an interesting word to appear on that webpage…
Fine, I edited it into the post. Still, OCR fails miserably at sheet music in my experience. These files are a mix of people scanning papers and PDFs coming directly from file-download websites. I can’t have a single mistake from an OCR converter in my line of work.
Oh, man, a paid subscription? I’d rather stick with Windows, in that case…
True! I wonder which are really active nowadays (for the greatest chance of it getting implemented)…
These are all PNGs, though! To be specific, I work regularly with sheet music (especially sheet music with no source files, so it’s PDFs that I adjust into PNGs and manipulate from there: mostly deletion of unwanted staves and whitespace).
Whew, good to know!