Sanity is restored.

Love KDE, and good to see them chipping away at these pain points.

Ah, so IBM are in control of Red Hat.

I think it seems the timescale to pretend you aren’t going to change anything is 2-5 years.

Don’t expect anything from these big corps, just fork (if you really must), and move on.

It absolutely used to suck performance wise since I used an S4 for about 2 years. Since then, it’s been great. As someone who used to dislike the performance, and now loves it, even over chromium stuff, I can safely suggest your oversimplified opinion is without any real basis. Sucks is such a vague word, and I guess it stops you having to detail and rationalise your personal opinion.

It’s always been great on the desktop.

For default search.

I’m sure you’re aware Firefox isn’t in the search market. They are in the browser market and need to fund browser development. They’ve used Yahoo in the past and will go with whatever deal gives the best value. They could go with Bing if they wanted.

Funding from them does not mean control, and your insinuation is misleading and false.

“we do not process email content to serve ads” looks very specific. We don’t process emails to serve you ads. It doesn’t say they don’t process ads to understand better what is relevent to you. It is also a very specific word, serve. Serving means displaying, but it doesn’t necessarily mean profiling or targetting.

Ads are shown based on: “ads that were selected to be the most useful and relevant for you”. So, they’re saying they don’t directly do that, but it doesn’t cover indirect processing that would feed into this.

These people are very clever, and hire very clever lawyers that could easily demonstrate this in a court, so they could use that information and still meet the requirements of the policy.

Considering the astounding level of information gained from Android that feeds into their tech, it would be quite naive to believe they’ve ring fenced email as something they don’t touch. Google still serve very relevant content to people that don’t use search and don’t stay logged into email. I cannot imagine it’s a fluke. Email is a very expensive game to be in when you’re insinuating that all they want is to be an identity provider to assist in tracking web interactions.

Proton mail have a cloud storage facility. It is limited amount without a paid subscription though.

“dedicated White knight for GIMP”, another ad hominem, and probably showing a clear indication of your erm… questionable views.

“Your best counterarguments are to either attack the person you disagree with directly”. You cannot even see the hypocrisy.

“If you want to actually discuss this do it in good faith or stop wasting our time.” Right back atcha…

Weak, you cannot debate any of my points, so you’re going for the ad hominem. Ironic that you call me out for logical fallacies…

It’s a different tool. Krita is for painting. GIMP is for image manipulation.

I’m assuming you’re not a professional programmer though, as professional programmer salaries are much higher. If Krita does more, it’s though sacrificing time, giving it away free. Not everyone is in a position to do that. You either pay for good developers, or hope for the sacrifice.

Maybe I’ll try your approach and just bash projects, I’m sure that’s productive and helps open source improve. Feels a wee bit negative though…

https://www.gimp.org/news/2021/07/27/support-gimp-developers-sustainable-development/

GIMP getting around $2k dollars a month or a bit more:

https://fund.blender.org/

138,000 euro MONTLY contribution.

A wee bit of a difference in funding. There are alternatives to GIMP, not really as much for Blender. They cannot be compared. GIMP probably couldn’t afford a UI developer if they tried. You’re looking at least £3k pcm for someone who isn’t punishing themselves.

Do you want to tell me what sort of voodoo magic GIMP do to match the resources Blender get? Your opinions are based in feelings, not reality. You may hate GIMP, you may hate the UI, you may want the project to fail and take that mission as keyboard crusader, but it’s unfortunately just not a realistic position, but hey, your feelings can be unrealistic if they want to be. You can feel what you want. Some of us hate big corporations and injustice, others, it seems hate free software projects built by volunteers.

I would second this, I’ve used it multiple times and I have no desire to use anything else, because it provides all the functionality I need. Strongly recommend.

“Still doing correctly”? They are very generous with their space allowance and you gotta wonder why. I haven’t read the privacy policy, but I wouldn’t be surprised if every email you receive, everything you buy, every account you own is feeding into advertising profiles about you as a user.

But it is designed by their company. Their products represent their leadership.

Firefox and DDG for me.

Exemption for MPs. If it is fine, why are they making exceptions for themselves?!

I haven’t really needed to yet, but I think I’d probably look for OSmand (sp?) on F-droid. It uses Open Street Maps.

Edit: seems they have a few anti features. Maybe I’d just use browser and apple maps in a bind.

Yes, I have a Pixel 6a, and have installed GrapheneOS on it. It does what I need and I enjoy the extra privacy. Would recommend.

Fair enough. I considered it. Their scanning of people’s clouds shattered the illusion of privacy for me and I just couldn’t. Probably far better than google, but I’m not sure I personally could class it as good.

Interesting. Does it impact much on your use cases, or are you not fussed with those apps?

In the UK, banking apps are optional, I can use website in browser.

With GrapheneOS, you can install Play apps sandboxed and with dummied google apps and control how much of the file system they can see etc.

I would assume outlook has a web client. Not sure what InTune is so cannot comment.