What’s the difference between this and missiles?

If they do achieve decentralization in the future I’ll gladly call it decentralized, but “tangible plans” don’t warrant use of a descriptor like that. If someone is training in the hope of making their country’s Olympics team they don’t get to call themselves an Olympian. You have to have gone to the Olympics to justify that title. Working towards decentralization is the same thing. You don’t get to call yourself decentralized just because you wrote it down as a goal on your roadmap.

I don’t think that it’s accurate to say that bluesky is “completely” centralized (it is less centralized than most social media) as much as it’s de-facto centralized.

That’s like me calling myself a millionaire because I could theoretically be one at some point in the future. I am de facto not a millionaire, but I also have more than zero dollars. so I’m not completely a non-millionaire.

Also theres already another instance and relays running on a raspberry pi.

Oh yeah? I can join that second server right now and communicate with folks on the main server?

I stopped reading when the “journalist” asked this question:

How did you end up starting a decentralized social platform?

How little research must one do to credulously repeat that PR talking point for a platform that is in fact completely centralized?

Really, can you point out which section that’s in? All I find is “creating fake accounts or content, including fake reviews”, which doesn’t apply here if the person does use the service.

ou’re not allowed to review your own companies software

Says who? They can still be a user of it.

Yeah, I`m all for roasting Plex but nothing about that review is inappropriate or prima facie untruthful.

Distrobox and Flatpak are more than enough at this stage for most programs

Maybe for you, but personally I could never get by with only that. I have zero interest in atomic distros. To me they look like an inferior version of NixOS, which I have yet to fully wrap my head around. Until then I’ll stick to Arch (BTW)

Ubuntu in the mid 2000s, but it’s PopOS that made me a fulltimer ~2 years ago. I don’t use it anymore but I’ll always be thankful for it.

Never thought of that, I may give it a shot!

No, what I’m saying is that PS has features that simply do not exist in any of the current FOSS apps. How do you replicate smart objects or content-aware fill? How about sky replacement or the camera RAW filter?

Even that isn’t really true. GIMP for example is nowhere near feature parity with Photoshop, not even close. it only just got non-desctructive editing a few months ago, something that Photoshop has had for at least 20 years if not more! The disparity gets much, much worse when you look at filters or tools like content-aware fill.

I would if I knew anything about programming or UI design, but unfortunately I don’t.

Again, you’re operating off your own limited experience. Ask someone who does Excel programming (yes it’s a thing) if LibreOffice compares. It does not.

Can I ask your perspective on the comments here saying that Krita and Inkscape just aren’t comparable to their commercial alternatives?

I am a professional and have been doing this since… Well, I started with Mac OS 7, let’s put it that way. Krita and Inkscape are like using craft scissors to cut sheetmetal. They’re simply the wrong tool for the job. They are maybe 10% comparable to Adobe apps. Affinity apps are probably 60% or 70% comparable. Anybody who says Inkscape is a replacement for Illustrator simply does not use it in any serious professional capacity. It doesn’t even have any means of adding paragraph spacing!

At best they will repurpose certain features to add them to some “pro” (but still web-based) version of Canva at $50/mo. There’s no way in hell we’ll get Linux apps for Affinity. I really wish we would because they are literally the only reason I still have a Windows VM.

Oh, and I use an 8bitdo controller with it and a Rii wireless keyboard and both work fine!

I don’t know, I never really thought about that. I had my previous mobo for about 10 years and at that point it was becoming a problem, but for the first 7 years or so it worked fine. After 7 years there would be a new CPU socket anyway, so it would be a good time to upgrade.

This is my build:

• AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 4.5 GHz 8-Core Processor
• Thermalright Frost Commander 140 BLACK 95.5 CFM CPU Cooler
• Asus TUF GAMING B650M-PLUS WIFI Micro ATX AM5 Motherboard
• TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL30 Memory
• Silicon Power A60 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 3.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive
• XFX Speedster QICK 319 Core Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB Video Card
• Lian Li O11 Air Mini ATX Mid Tower Case
• Corsair RM850x (2021) 850 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply

Hardware is very similar to my own build from last fall, except I went with a 7800XT. it’s been running CachyOS since then and works superbly.