If you ever used Affinity/Adobe products and GIMP on any capacity over just trying to crop an image, you’d never say something like this. GIMP, despite its 3.0 release, is still decades behind those other programs.

GIMP feels like it’s made by software engineers for software engineers, trying to play catch up with the other softwares available that were made with designers and artists in mind.

Bungie already confirmed it won’t be a “full priced game”, so probably it’s 40€

So you always know what is the risk and who’s responsible for it with Chinese tech, and for American tech you’ll never know who’s stealing your data and what enshittification will happen on the next day

6 people in a support team working on R&D

It’s a small team of 6 in the USA that worked as a support team for R&D, no one there “wrote the successful game”.

Say what you will about the country, but gov.br and PIX put everything else to shame and no one even came close to something like that

But you’re not handing your phone over, it stays in your hand and if there’s a QR code to scan they’ll scan it with the phone in your hand

In Brazil, the officer just uses their own phone to scan a validation QR on the ID app, at no point your phone leaves your hand and in a few seconds the officer has what they need. Shouldn’t this be the case in the EU? AFAIK the officers only take your physical ID to check the number, so if you’re using the app they shouldn’t need to confirm that as the info is already validated

It’s more like a problem avoiding the existing solution

It’s a case of The People’s Front of Judea throwing sticks at the Judean People’s Front

Ditch Mozilla for what?

Honestly, at this point, they deserve every single bad thing that happens to them.

Unfortunately those bad things will also trickle down for the rest of the world and I’m so tired of that

How is atomic less confusing? Immutable means that something doesn’t change, atomic means that it’s the size of an atom or has nuclear energy

EDIT: I’ve learned that some people are overly pedantic about the meaning and practical use of the word “immutable”, so much so that they decided to create a bigger confusion by giving another word a completely different and exclusive meaning

You still have to install WhatsApp though, since it requires activity on your account (on the app) every 14 days.

This and the automated reply achieve precisely nothing you’re setting out to do. People won’t register in a service or install a new app solely to talk to you.

Well if you’re in a country that uses WhatsApp as a main communication platform, then either you use it too or you don’t talk to your friends, family and more.

Please! I think that all mobile matrix clients are either bad or just somewhat good with many caveats. For me, Element X develops at a glacial pace and it seems the philosophy is to just make a minimal client and nothing more. FluffyChat is too opinionated and rough everywhere for me. Beeper is by far the best client however you’re limited to a beeper account.

We really need more clients that aren’t just Element or trying to reinvent the wheel.

Living in the EU and Latin America, I can safely say this has never been an issue before with the exception of Proton Mail which took me 8 confirmations and 5 retries

If you’re really paranoid about it, you can download AppVerifier and have Obtainium automatically send the downloaded apk to it and verify the sums before installing

It is very much actively maintained other than this supposed vacation from the developer. Everything else is purely speculation and what seems to be impersonation of the dev on the fediverse.