[–] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Depends on what you need. Tuta for Mail is great. If you'd like to self host password managers, stuff like Keepass/Vaultwarden/Bitwarden. You can also choose to pay for Bitwarden if you'd prefer a managed infrastructure. The only AI I'm familiar with that has some level of self respect is Mistral with Le Chat. Not familiar with VPN/Cloud storage.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    Yes and no. It's not usually the fault of the programming language.

    But programming languages have a unique ability: The design of the language itself can and will instill bad or good habits into the code of oneself. These languages are designed pretty deliberately, so those habits are a direct consequence of the design of a language. In fact, Sean Goedecke's own C-to-Rust example makes this point implicitly: Cantrill's port got faster not because the redesign was really clever, but because Rust's borrow checker and standard library actively steered him toward a more cache friendly Binary tree. There are probably many more examples out there that had a real world impact.

    There are no bad languages, every language has its place somewhere. But design decisions matter.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

    Krita is a painting and sketching tool and lacks some photo editing capabilities that GIMP has. PhotoCraft is vibe coded (In itself not a bad thing, but many features are incomplete, such as PSD compatibility), I haven't tested the other ones yet. MiniPaint looks fun, but I'll need to test it out.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    This.

    GIMP may have good functionality (in GIMP 3.2), but it's a software designed by engineers. Most workflows are more complicated than they would need to be. Sadly, there currently isn't a real alternative for image manipulation out there currently, so we need to stick with what we have.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    Lmao

    Yeah totally. also with open source software in general. In the past, most open source software was either not powerful or not pleasant to use. But in the very recent time, multiple projects got massive updates or new projects got created, especially creative software such as Audacity or GIMP.

    Maybe it'll finally be the year of the Linux desktop

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