Yep. Enshitification behavior doesn’t cease once you’re technically a paying customer. If they hadn’t made a habit of enshitification. Clawing features away to put behind a paywall I’d give them some support. But I prefer foss anyhow. And for myself, I’m not missing anything.

True and while they are both enshitifying their services. Somehow in this one area Google seems to be going slower. And making slightly less bonehead moves

A Chromecast TV device might fill your gap. There is a jellyfin android TV build in the app store and it works with every TV. Just costs about 50 dollarydoos

Interesting. Will have to take a look at it later. I currently use Jellyfin and don’t have many issues. The only thing that might be a pain point is tuner support. I didn’t see anything mentioned. But looks nice otherwise. And intrigued to see its largely in Go.

Typicalcommingfromashillforbigwhitespace!

Yes, I just hope it goes better than the whole Microsoft deal. The next president turned around and basically undid all the work of the Clinton administration.

Yes I think that’s what they’re calling it now. They used to call it something else. But it generally works everywhere windows works. Though I don’t have very many windows machines myself and much prefer KDE connect. But there is something similar. Apple has one too. But it strictly only works with iPhones.

You will get no argument from me there. I used the one on Windows a couple of times. Wasn’t all that impressed. But the one on KDE is the one I use most myself.

Microsoft has released something similar for Windows. I believe it’s called Windows connect for phone? But it does exist.

I was unaware of the CMYK support. So sounds like maybe apart from gamut tools etc. It’s getting fairly close these days which is good to hear. I’ve generally just been using it for drawing and painting with a little bit of editing. Though I still feel more comfortable editing in Gimp at this point.

Krita is heavily oriented for digital painting. But it is a very solid editor too. The interface took some time to get used to. Though I like it.

But absolutely, good is subjective. It really depends on your needs. If you’re looking to edit spicy memes anything could work. If you’re looking for non destructive workflow GIMP and krita are starting to implement that. And if you’re looking for traditional publishing specific support, good CMYK, gamut, etc. Not so much to my knowledge? If you just want familiarish… Gimp these days can imitate the classic Photoshop interface okay.

Liftoff has one

Exactly. What are contributors? If not, also users?

It might be worth something for the open source community to consider open funding for a group that would help devs to do just that. It wouldn’t help everyone. But it might help enough to make an impact for everyone.

Either way I’d love to see something like krita or GIMP make a mark like blender is starting too. Krita will be the most likely. But it’s still way too early to count GIMP out. It’s been plodding a long steadily like blender since the 90s. But slower with more attention to the tool kit than the original program it was developed for.

These days the default interface is single window with layouts like classic Photoshop. It has excellent format support. Though they are of course behind a bit on the latest PSD support. But it’s very functional. I’ve also had some issues with JXL in GIMP. Lossy is fine. But lossless is causing my exporting to crash. Krita however does lossless fine. Native plugin-wise is where things have really stagnated a bit. But with gmic integration for both GIMP and krita it’s not the pain it could be. And with the major rewrites happening over the last decade it’s kind of understandable. Painful but understandable. Just glad they’re still at it.

I still remember the pre 1.0 versions on early Slack. Heh it was like a slightly more ambitious quirky version of MS Paint.

Yup. Night and day. It’s still not going to satisfy those used to Photoshop or rely on cmyk tools and support. Though 3.0 is supposed to make major strides on that as well as non destructive editing IIRC.

Well that or use an instance that isn’t theirs, or doesn’t even federate with theirs, or simply block theirs.🤔 I mean this is really throwing the baby out with the bath water.

I have no strong love for leninists/stalinists, and think they accomplish little other than making actual socialists look bad while not being socialist themselves. But I’m not that put off by them. They’re generally fairly intellectually weak, and easy to maneuver around. Should you choose to interact with them.

Yes WebRTC is highly similar to BitTorrent. You have your initial uploader who seeds. Every person that then downloads a chunk to watch it is also then capable of sending that chunk back out. Thereby the more people that watch the more people that can watch. Even back in 2012 with the Kodi piracy plugins. You could click on watching a show. And within a minute or two you would be watching the show in decent quality. Though at the time they were actually using straight up bit torrent just tuned to send the first chunks first so you could watch it as it streamed. So as far as bandwidth on storage requirements are concerned is pretty minimal. Unless of course you’re trying to run a large public instance. Then you are still on the hook for some basic storage.

From who? It’s federated and distributed. Everyone watching it also re-streams it. You don’t need a massive data center in the cloud. The more people who are watching it. The more bandwidth there is for more people to watch it.

It uses WebRTC. It’s not going to be that big of a bandwidth issue.