The skinhead can be partially right about some things even if they’re monstrously wrong about the overall picture and what conclusions they draw. A neonazi would probably also say the earth is round, that doesn’t mean it isn’t true.

What, in particular, did that poster say that is so wrong? Are their numbers off? Did the other genocides not happen?

edit: To be clear: I’m talking about the poster you’re replying to here, not the deleted post above b/c who even knows what that said.

Who is whining though?

This is another one of those echo chamber memes complaining about “those people” where “those people” don’t really exist in reality.

Remember that one posted in this very community a week or so ago complaining about “Microsoft evangelists” as if that’s even a thing? I do.

All of that is irrelevant to an end user. They have the choice between tool A which is free but developing very slowly, or tool B which is paid but has all of the stuff they need.

99.99% will choose tool B and rightfully so.

Case in point: Serif isn’t currently rewriting their old stuff, they already did 10 years ago. Affinity photo/designer/etc have been out for a decade.

Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.

Right off their front page.

Again with this tired excuse. “It’s free therefore everybody should just accept subpar software”.

You know what else is free? Gonorrhea. Doesn’t mean it’s something I should want, nor is anyone who isn’t an STI researcher barred from saying it blows.

Just to be clear, I don’t give a rat’s ass what anyone uses to do their editing. Suit yourself. Just don’t expect others to follow suit and sing the praises of a thing just because it’s FOSS.

Your boss is also paying for time spent troubleshooting, which is why industry standards are a thing. People can help each other out, common issues only have to be solved once and the general pool of issues is smaller.

I work with 12 artists who all use maya. There’s enough troubleshooting to do on just that. Having some of them use blender, others modo, etc would be a nightmare.

I can guarantee you not one person in our company is concerned with Adobe’s stock price, yet everyone is on Creative Cloud. Industry standards are the logical result of groups of people trying to get shit done, not some clandestine conspiracy to increase Adobe’s profits.

and GIMP dev actually planning to add shape tool.

Gimp’s first version released in 1998. Do you find it surprising that people aren’t impressed by plans to add basic tools after nearly 30 years when the competition has stuff like content-aware filling and automatic layer separation?

There are many valid arguments against using Adobe products, or for using open source editing software. Productivity and ease of use are not one of them.

Right, so in your version of this world, who is the fascist? Germany?

I don’t because they’re not really comparable. Not in their intended effect nor their feasibility.

There are many other electrics cars, many of them better and/or cheaper and entirely interchangable. Boycotting Tesla just means getting a direct substitute instead. There aren’t any substitutes for HP games because the IP itself is the whole point.

Another point where they’re not comparable: Tesla isn’t the problem here, Elon is and he needs to go. And he can be gotten rid of, which is the entire point of the boycot. Meanwhile, there is no mechanism legal or otherwise to remove Rowling from the equation. She owns the IP and no amount of boycots will change that. The only thing boycotting HP products achieves is making the companies involved fail and preventing any further HP products from being developed. So what does that achieve?

Finally: we are talking about a woman saying mean things about trans people on the Internet versus a man actively dragging the USA into fascism as if these are equal problems requiring equal responses. As much as I empathise with trans people in that this issue can be much more real for them than it is for me, I still don’t think they’re anywhere near the same level of urgency. I have yet to see Rowling have any kind of meaningful effect, while Elon is currently rampaging through every institution he can reach.

So: given that boycotting Tesla is both easy, effective and urgent, while boycotting HP is a personal sacrifice for no real effect, surely you see the difference?

Yeah so are about a thousand other people who worked on the franchise/product in question and may be very positive influences on the world.

Trying to deny a literal billionaire money is symbolic at best.

Rowling has enough money to donate to shitty politics for the rest of her life ten times over.

Attempts to “not support her” are about 3 decades too late and entirely irrelevant at this point beyond making people feel good about themselves. She doesn’t need your support nor even registers it.

We’re talking about the world’s first and only writer to become a billionaire with her books here.

There’s about a thousand and one other people involved with the franchise after 8 movies, 3 spinoff movies, a play and a dozen or so videogames.

Rowling is pretty much irrelevant to the fandom and people aren’t into the HP stuff because of her.

Yeah you just can’t be in a server room anymore without some dude trying to sell you on Office365 and Cortana, sigh.

It’s less uneducated thinking and more “here’s a thing I read online that I can parrot to show that I am more rational than others”.

That statistic could be entirely unfounded and people would still be repeating it because it serves their purposes. Internet nerds love gotchas.

That aside, fully agreed regarding the level of control. It’s a little like saying “people have - and therefore you have - an x% chance of getting lung cancer” while completing ignoring that a huge portion of that is a direct result of only some people’s behaviour, namely smoking.

The people driving defensively, sober and attentively are not likely to be the ones folding themselves around a roadside tree.

Not really. But you know, gotta find ways to feel smarter than other people so here we go.