I approve of all these except GIMP.
GIMP is just terrible.
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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Nobody should ever use the internet without uBlock Origin.
Friends donβt let friends surf unprotected.
But also, I'd like we should be able to use internet without having to use uBlock Origin...
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Its super scary that there are many people not using it.
Yeah, whenever I hear people complaining about ads, I'm like "You guys are seeing ads?!"
I could understand if you needed to be some 1337 hacker to block ads, but uBlock is one of the easiest extensions I've ever used. You just set it and forget it. There's zero configuration you need to do.
Of course, if there's some ad that slips past, then you need to do some hacking, but that almost never happens nowadays.
I know the answer. People is lazy unless they have interest in it. Everybody wants happiness biologically but nobody makes a move to have it. People hate Windows, tries to remove Edge, make performance settings, use 3rd party awful things to improve Windows, but nobody gives any other OS a try. Same thing for the browsers, extensions like that etc. People think its matrix-ish and something weirdo. Who would use Matrix instead of Discord? Who would use any FF fork instead of Opera GX or Chrome? Who would use Lemmy and any ActivityPub media instead of Meta products or Reddit etc. We are full of prejudice, and dont want to move out from the comfort zone. We dont want to make a important choice for our privacy-safety unless it become viral in TikTok.
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An open source package that would replace adobe would be a game changer.
Which Adobe?
The building style?
Someoneβs been living in a cave.
That can replace adobe, well done!
I would sacrifice my first unborn kid for this.
I would also sacrifice your first unborn kid for this.
Truly the spirit of FOSS
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Krita ?
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DuckDuckGo as a web browser?
On android at least, yes there is a duck duck go browser.
based!
That's cool, I hope ONLYOFFICE gets some love one day too. I vastly prefer the GUI at least in the word processor. Also open source.
note I'm only using it for writing, can't speak to the rest of the suite
Not judging the software at all, but the fact that OnlyOffice is owned/developed by a semi-sketchy Russian corporation would probably preclude it from getting any endorsement from a Western government.
Cryptpad (which partly uses onlyoffice), writes about it here: https://forum.cryptpad.org/d/232-onlyoffice-concerns-vendor-makes-shady-moves/4
I think it's an excellent post worth reading. Open Source entails collaborating with the whole world. Any code base is simply to big to audit from the start, but all incremental code can be audited, and you can disable stuff you don't need etc.
For me, the post makes me trust cryptpad more than I did before.
And yes. Cryptpaf = onlyoffice, but still relevant I think
Edit: spelling of "worth"
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It is endorsed, though?
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