I think they’ve always been like this for some of their posts, and honestly I’m considering getting a paid subscription to support them. Sucks, but they’ve been putting out quality content in exchange for your email address and some metrics - I’d call it a fair trade.
Sure - https://www.patreon.com/orioto
He might be doing some digital now (I’m no longer subscribed and I see some free digital sketches in there), but I know when I subscribed the final work was painted on canvas.
His favorite one of mine is titled “Breath of Adventure”, and I’m fortunate he shared a 4k scan that looks amazing on my monitor.
I spent $50 a year on wallpapers once as a monthly subscription. It was to support an independent artist that hand painted video game scenes I enjoyed, produced 1-3 new paintings per month, granted access to his back catalog, and the deliverable was high quality scans I could download and use at my leisure.
Since he is an artist, and you could feel that each painting took weeks to complete, I felt justified.
Never had a desire to pay for an app with generic wallpapers though, or to financially support someone who generates my annual salary per sponsorship deal.
Explorer tabs is a feature. One which should have been an update instead of an “upgrade”. That’s about it though.
Yep. I’m fortunate enough to be on the other side of the curve, but “it just breaks” when you first start tinkering. The average computer user who will never open the terminal will never run into this problem
Unfortunately the fact remains that he received 3 million more votes in 2024 than 2020. It’s simple to political missteps and cry foul, but I simply can’t overlook the fact that majority of Americans knew who he was, witnessed the same January 6th I did, and elected to restore that guy to office. In something that shouldn’t have been remotely close, he won. That speaks more to the mentality of average Americans than it does what the democrats did or didn’t do this cycle.
Democrats aren’t faultless here, they continuously bury their best candidates for political nepotism (and I personally feel Biden would have been a solid president in 2016), lack courage when defending their positions, and are generally too worried to rock the boat that benefits their donors. I personally want funding limits in elections and ranked choice voting in all things and to curb this nonsense, yet the fact Donald Trump secured that many votes, the fact I have neighbors who fly his flag as a symbol of strength, gives me little hope for the future of this country.
I whole heartedly agree with your points, however I think it’s important to note that Trump did win the popular vote this time around, which if nothing else showcases how far the US has fallen.
I know nothing about the European software market, but translating this in American, $100,000/year for a principal developer and lead of a project of this scale is like paying him 33%-50% of a US salary for those 10 years.
I’m a firm believer that people - including open source contributors - should be compensated for their time when an avenue exists that doesn’t compromise the integrity of the project. Mastodon an amazing platform and I wish him, and the project, nothing but the best.
So this is basically v3, and they’re trying to gain critical mass adoption vs Adobe.
I’m happy with my v2 for now, but I have a hunch if I migrate to “3” I’ll be modifying my hosts file in the future.
If you do find yourself using Gmail, I’d like to share with you a reminder that you can simply use a Mail client and bypass all ads and tabs nonsense.
For me the package manager version was outdated - I grabbed the latest version from the GitHub and it just works again.