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Until they don’t… and please don’t call then normies, when they really are manipulated…

You don’t spend money on something that you don’t get profit from. That’s just plain logic. They know, if they don’t keep spending money here, some politician would end their monopoly.

How it’s possible to stop using google or apple? By doing it…

I believe it depends more on people-power, than on their wealth. That’s why they spend so much money on lobbying - it’s a testament to how scared they are.

I guess I’m a feminist, but I don’t really call myself a feminist. I call myself a humanist, maybe even an environmentalist, because I believe that all humans, and animals, and the environment should have rights, and should be protected against greedy, scared and powerhungry (sick) individuals.

It’s to do the grass root movement, and get enough to demand it, for a provider to feel the need to expand their customer base that way…

Well, then there’s a market for someone to crack…

You can stop using Google and Apple… It’s that simple. But it seems that you, like many other, want their cake and eat it too…

I like it. :-) It always amazes me, that so many people who like free and open software, are so negative about changes. If you really want things your way, then support the software, ad your skills, pay for it, so that the best people can work on it. A little more gratitude for peoples free work, to provide you with great and free software, would be in order.

Thanks for that pessimistic comment.

Is that not a good reason, if you are trying to help people, and competitors likely would damage that mission? There’s a thousand possible reasons, and I really wonder why you can’t imagine any of them…

Maybe, but not necessarily. You see, there could be plenty of reasons to protect ones code…

…or non-profit… But I agree…

Been using it since it was Netscape Navigator. It’s the only solution for me, that has stuck. It’s not like I haven’t tried anything else like Opera, Waterfox, Vivaldi and a few others. I have never installed Chrome though… Firefox is the only one I feel safe with… A few addons, and a few tweaks, and like you, I’m good to go…

I can see that people really have a hard time when someone speaks figuratively…

I don’t love things. I might like them, and I do like LibreOffice, Firefox and lot’s of other OS software. I can’t take your job, but I hope you find someone for the position! :-)

Almost all I work with, have switched to Affinity. Both because of the price tag, but also because they are so tired of Adobe… A great tool is not worth much, when it’s rented from a big and greedy control freak… It’s insane how much they want to install on your computer…

Because “best” is obvious a subjective statement, and you wanted to argue that…

Inkscape can make a CMYK-file, with an addon. It’s pretty easy. Besides CMYK is only relevant is you want to print, and most graphics work today is for screens. It literally takes about 7 seconds to make it CMYK.

What feature do you need, that Inkscape can’t do? Is it really the 7 seconds to make it CMYK, that breaks you?

Well, it’s not great to take an already compressed audiostream like 320kbps mp3, and then compress it again. Use your FLACs if possible. Then, I’d recommend that you use .ogg - they give better compression (smaller files), but with better sound than mp3…

There’s a lot of apps out there, but AFAIK not anyone who does this automatically for you.

I know the feeling. Maybe not always videos, but I also keep some tabs open, that I have to get back to. Then, after a couple of weeks, I finally either bookmark them or delete them. :-)

Sure, you can use it to edit photos. That’s just not it’s strength.