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Not sure where it originated, but originally saw it here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/47101580Also why the fuck do they need basically my entire identity just so i can write words on a document?
Might be wrong speak, or a new idea they can steal!
Or to train their shitty ai models?
Usually to make sure your document is synced with the cloud.
And then sell my data to the highest bidder.
To their credit, they do a bit more than just that. They also sync your personal information with their cloud, and often, the clouds of third parties as well.
But but gimp is so unusable 🙄
AutoCAD installing three million micro services just to get their shit pirated anyways.
FreeCAD works great these days.
It’s pretty decent! Huge learning curve coming from Fusion360 since it does everything so differently, but once I got the basics down I can do simple models at least.
Don’t think that open source is immune to this, OnlyOffice has an AI button and many OSS devs are integrating Claude into their dev nowadays. It’s getting annoying.
tbf ai can be useful, and will be even more useful once we optimize it enough that you can just run good models locally, without being a slave to the llm coorps. even if they will technically always have the “frontier”, most of these applications don’t really need the best of the best
we should strive to achieve that since it won’t go away, and you can’t really fight it long term
No, AI just can be harmful.
Read this
TL;DR: AI is just a works-stealing machine that makes code less secure and displaces people of their works (or removes their opportunities to get a job).
and displaces people of their works (or removes their opportunities to get a job).
We’re talking about open source software here, where the devs usually work for free, as a hobby.
Tbf, OnlyOffice is a bit sketchy, hence the EuroOffice fork. But I do agree with the sentiment.
Not integrating the tools that the users want to use is how you end up in a situation 10 years down the road where people say “oh, oss-version-of-my-favourite-tool doesn’t have A, B, and C so I can’t use it” and lose another gen of users.
“The users want to use slop” isn’t the flex you think it is
I’m getting so tired of running, Windows ruined itself because of it, I don’t know wtf to do.
I’m not flexing, I’m acknowledging the reality of the people we share the world with.
Well the original meme implied ai features weren’t being added to open source projects
So its a wee bit strange when I see AI added to OSS projects as well, and a LOT of Claude commits on git repos.
I was responding to your comment “it’s getting annoying” in response to AI features being added to oss tools. Either way, we’ve lost the plot in this thread lol. No hard feelings man. Have a good day! :)
Apple Incorporated’s software looks more like the one on the left, but with a way more refined user interface… If we want OSS to be as good as possible then we need to compare our favorite software with other good software, not with Microslop. UI design matters and we should discuss it with less of a bias.
So true. I don’t miss the “subscribe to be able to write a page of text” lifestyle.
Recently deleted Adobe PDF because of this nonsense and installed a free tool that is so clean/clutter free
Corporations have the advantage of being able to allocate lots of resources to the project and have many professionals of various specialties work on it as their day job.
Open Source has the advantage of not being forced by a perverse economic structure to do as much evil as possible for the sake of generation more revenue for shareholders.
You could’ve said just Open Source vs Adobe.
Don’t forget the popup as soon as you open the app for a “Limited Time Lightning Deal” of 25% off when you subscribe for 3 years with a price lock guarantee.
…and the price will go up, anyway.
I’m a freelancer and unfortunately rely heavily on Microsoft. Haven’t had that stance for long, to be honest, but the past few months have been eye-opening. I’m trying to go more European in the future, and Open Source where viable.
It is a little scary I have to admit. I’m getting old enough to have worked with MS products for decades now, and am so used to them. It’s also a challenge to myself to move away and try new things, as I believe this will be a selling point in the near future in my business.
I was exactly the same but moved over to linux about a year ago, it took a little bit of time to get used to but overall hasn’t been a massive issue.
If there are additional packages you are used to running that will probably be the hardest part since you might have to find open source equivalents
how it feels going from using a 2003 software for work to a newer version
“Make the best software we can” vs “Make the most money we can”
Valid on both side, honest soft and services vs which are not, the worst malware is mostly FOSS which you can find in the onion. Also nowadays the biggest FOSS catalogue is by Google Labs and Microsoft, FOSS to make money. There are others, like the famose Irfanview, free proprietary soft and absolute trustworth and definitively the best which you can find, there don’t exist a real OpenSource alternative.
Absolutely - anything can have more than one objective. But when money is an objective, the one constant is that it changes what it affects. Sometimes better in some ways, sometimes worse.
Sport is a good analogy here, I think. Amateur sport has little impact beyond those directly involved. Adding money increases exposure of those sports, better facilities, lots of scope for good - and yet big money sports are also very often mired in corruption and greed. (FIFA being a timely example) Those base human behaviours never go away.
FIFA is simply a money wash engine, nothing to do with sport.
It kills me that fucking everything is a fucking website these days, even “desktop” applications.
Though not having to download and install a random program from the Internet, with full access to your hard disk, if often nice. When running in the browser, it is automatically sandboxed hard.
And it kills all the performance… And the security, and the privacy, as everything needs to fucking call home to be able to work.
And, why the fuck would you build over Electron or Tauri? That’s just being retarded, desktop apps should be done with actual native graphic toolkits, not that fucking performance, resources, space, security and privacity that “hybrid frameworks” are.
Which is true and all. For many things.
But if I just want to decode some JSON for a computer game, it is nice to just be able to do it on a website, with no need to install anything.
