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GIMP and photoshop have always been photo editing tools first and foremost

I mean, GIMP literally means "General Image Manipulation Program".

Excusing the lack of proper shape drawing tools as "it's a task for vector software" while at the same time having things like the ability to define vector masks is complete nonsense.

Or, this might blow off the minds of some people, not using transparency.

Pick sells, but who's buying?

Even Microshit tried and gave up because it was so hard

Not exactly. Yes a browser engine is one of the most, if not the most, complex pieces of software.

But if it was almost impossible to create a web engine then this, or KDE's KHTML, or Servo, or NetSurf, or Kraken, or you-name-it wouldn't exist.

Then how come (one of) the most powerful tech company in the world couldn't make it, you ask? They already had a "functional" web engine. But what they had from the beginning was absolute shit that did not respect any web standard. And oh boy we people who fought against that shit trying to support it do know. Its baggage was immensely huge and shitty that after a while and the speed Chrome was taking over they found it was easier to yeet it altogether, and I do hope that piece of shit is burning in hell because it made our lifes so miserable.

Note that Opera did the same thing with their web engine - they gave up with it mostly because they found easier to jump in the Blink bandwagon, without realizing they were making Opera just another Chromium skin without much value, contrary to what Presto was.

Kinda what could happen if one day Microsoft decided to try make Windows to be as functional, fast and permissive as Linux.

More advanced forms of timocracy, where power derives entirely from wealth with no regard for social or civic responsibility, may shift in their form and become a plutocracy where the wealthy rule.

Yikes

I wonder if people from 1000 years from now (if there's still people at that time, of course) would look back at our so-called "civilization" and make fun of us about our excess consumption of sugar, same as now we are doing with microplastics/nicotine/alcohol/etc or a few yeas ago about lead.

I love Gentoo precisely because of Portage, but I think the most badass package install/uninstall syntax has to be that of (the defunct?) Sorcerer Linux:

Sorcerer’s tool terminology is based upon magic words. For example:

• a tool to download, compile, and install software is called a “spell”
• to install a package is “cast”
• to remove a package is “dispel”
• a set of available spells is called a “grimoire”

Call me insane but I'm using a mix of parafine + beeswax. No problems whatsoever yet - it's been great.

I mean, not that there have been tons of successive civilizations around here, so... And yet if that was the case, you'll need to take in account that oral lore may have had a hand in the names of places, so it's mostly improbable that a place has had completely different names with each civilization.

(Edit: people downvoting/replying to this thinking I was talking just about the USA is hilarious - reddit syndrome much?)

In my third world country the real issue is about costs. At this very moment cooking with gas is cheaper than cooking with electric.

The gas provider company mandates an inspection on every home gas apppliance and the installation every 5 years to check for good connections and correct ventilation (if a home does not pass the checks the service is suspended), so I guess at least it diminishes the risks to some degree.

But still since gas is going to be a lot expensive in the following weeks, maybe the tables will turn. But then you'll need to get an electric stove.

I really wish we could actually "rename" places as their original indigenous names across all America(~~s~~). For example my country had an internal turmoil just to keep the original name of its capital city because we love our native people, and yet we keep the incredibly stupid name of "Land of Colon" (imho most probably the most stupid name of any country, ever) because fuck our native people.