nehal3m

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[–] nehal3m 2 points 3 days ago

Eh. I flashed Calyx on my Fairphone 4, works just fine. Hope it does so for half a decade.

[–] nehal3m 8 points 3 days ago

The creator themselves gave me this link.

[–] nehal3m 5 points 3 days ago

Go for it! I got an art print, quality is excellent.

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It came in! (sh.itjust.works)
 

Psyched to get a nice frame and hang it in the office after the move this month.

[–] nehal3m 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you're going to be an asshole about it, pick something other than Blender. That is one of the best examples of how organizations produce cohesive software that adheres to design standards with the express purpose of making it user friendly. User friendly is not the same as easy. It means 'respect the user', not 'fisher price'.

You're espousing the exact attitude that drives people away from contributing to FOSS to solve problems so please crawl into a deep hole and spam neofetch on your Arch Thinkpad, cretin.

[–] nehal3m 2 points 4 days ago

I'm not saying it's fundamental, sorry, I should have specified. You're exactly right, GNOME is driven by it's Foundation and so there is leadership in place to make sure that the software ends up as a cohesive whole. Software projects that don't, or that create one after the fact, tend to be a lot less so.

[–] nehal3m 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don't disagree that it is a feature of organization, but if you're talking about creating a product that has been designed around a common philosophy and UX, that is diametrically opposed to fucking around with stuff. There's a place for that and it does improve people's skills, I also don't disagree there. All I'm saying is there exists a tendency for software produced by organizations to adhere to a UX philosophy.

[–] nehal3m 2 points 4 days ago

Fair dues, Microsoft managed to fuck that up in spite of itself.

[–] nehal3m 54 points 4 days ago (26 children)

Eh. One thing proprietary software has going for it is clear design goals and the leadership to create a cohesive UX. Open source projects tend to be a grab bag of tools that work well for developers.

Not saying I don't love FOSS, but there's definitely stuff that proprietary software does better in a practical sense, whatever else your opinion of it.

[–] nehal3m 4 points 4 days ago (10 children)
[–] nehal3m 2 points 4 days ago

I mean if you want. Why wait for anyone else?

[–] nehal3m 14 points 6 days ago

Nice , now do WhatsApp!

[–] nehal3m 13 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for the link, I ordered an art print. Thanks 😀

 

Some negative space and symmetry, on a square in the Netherlands. Feel free to critique.

 

The person on the left is carrying bags, the one in orange is a delivery driver and a couple of people are wearing backpacks. Aside from car brained, Damaris is also blind.

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