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I Love Free Software Day - Live Laugh Libre (OC) (pawb.social)
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Happy I love free software day! It snuck up on me while I was doing other projects, but here's a silly drawing I made today in Krita!

There are so many incredible projects out there which help countless people be empowered in their computing. Many thanks to all of the developers and web hosts, which allow folks like myself to stay away from proprietary and predatory corporations.

I don't have nearly enough characters, but here's several projects I've been using often. Thanks to everyone on the Fediverse (particularly Lemmy, Mastodon, and Peertube for me, as well as apps such as Voyager and Fedilab), KDE (especially Krita and Kdenlive), the mountain of people responsible for several GNU/Linux distros, GrapheneOS, F-Droid, Freesound, Matrix, LibreOffice, instruments using the SFZ standard (especially VCSL keys), and DAWs (LMMS, and Zrythm).

Foxfire, an anthro fox, looks at you with a big open mouth smile. He's holding a banner with text saying "live, laugh, libre." Small hearts appear on either side of him. This is a pun based on free software and the phrase "live, laugh, love."

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Thank you!

    Yes, that's correct, I have a flashed Pixel 8 Pro. As for LMMS, because it was freely available to download, along with Zrythm. When I looked at Ardour last, the message I got was they were a little antagonistic to building binaries from source from the display messages, it put me off. I don't mind paying for binaries, but the scary messages about not to do it, and that they actively don't keep the build pages up to date with what you might need? Eh.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Proprietary DAWs? By that I have to imagine you mean FL Studio, I don't think anything really holds a candle to that, especially because I'd also have to include the myriad of propetary plugins too (even if you can technically use them with free software). I've used it to make a few simple jingles and whatnot for myself, and also to just jam on my MIDI keyboard, which is really all I need anyway. Zrythm is a bit more robust with plugin support, but the 1.0 release is certainly rough around the edges at the moment.

    I do largely just install things, but I like to go to source pages, about pages, try and get a feel for the vibes, and ensure it is actually free software before I use it. It just set off a red flag and I wrote it off; maybe the software is great and there's nothing to worry about, I dunno.

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    I didn't know Free Software Day was a thing, but I'm glad it is! I recently started using Krita for digital art, and it's been amazing. There is so much cool software that I use almost daily, it'd be hard to make a list, and I'm so grateful for all the people who keep these projects alive and who use their limited time and money to provide an alternative to big tech <3

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago

    That's wonderful to hear! I think it being so hard to make a list is part of why it's a thing, so that different people can all positively talk about different projects that help them, and even just about developing free software in general. It's just nice to hear you're appreciated, and they absolutely are!

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    • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    For me it's Blender, Canvasblocker, Debian, Decentraleyes, FDroid, Firejail, FreeCAD, GIMP, GNU Octave, GrapheneOS, Keepass, KiCad, Lemmy, Libreoffice, Linux, Mastodon, Matrix, SearXNG, NoScript, Orcaslicer, PrivacyBadger, Vim, Vifm, XFCE and the countless other programs that I don't remember until I need them.

    Excellent art as always.

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