I agree - there definitely would need to be many more reverse proxy services, because the current dominance of just a handful is making the internet brittle in ways it wasn’t before.

You won’t be able to access 22% of websites, among them many of the largest ones.

Lawnchair worked out pretty well for me, might be worth a try for you too? I just had to ignore that their promotional screenshots are all boring monochrome, turns out the launcher itself doesn’t force any colours :)

Allergic? No. Need certain features for my work that FLOSS software either doesn’t have or takes a lot more hassle to achieve? Yes.

Not paying for Adobe, but tried out Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative and damn its UI just felt so unintuitive - many tools and menus were laid out by a different logic than the one I’m used to. Also it still doesn’t properly support CMYK colours from what I can see on their website.

ew… it is my favourite launcher but I disabled updates once it got acquired 😭

Does anyone know of a launcher with similar customisability? All the active launchers I found focus on minimalism and no or monochrome icons, while Nova lets me arrange my colourful icons in whatever way I want, reskin them, etc 😐

Edit: Lawnchair’s Nova backup import feature in their newest beta release pushed me to try it out, let’s see 👀

Edit 2: ok it seems to only have lost my home-pinned website bookmarks, so this could be a workable solution 😊

as a Hungarian, I hope so

I’m using the cracked versions released by m0nkrus, and they have worked reliably over the years.

Predictably Adobe’s apps are now full of genAI crap, but sadly(?) they still release useful new features as well, so I keep them up to date.

Thanks, I’ll check out Where Winds Meet! :)

(Edit: according to their Steam page they use genAI dialogue and art, so that’s a pass :/ )

Dunno about current adobes, but don’t they also run fine via wine? Have only one single tool so far that makes a bit trouble (mediamonkey).

From the reports I see on WineHQ, they are all various levels of broken, though the last versions tested were from 2024.

I still find them annoyingly unintuitive

Haha yes, when I had to use a Mac once in uni it was like they made a point of doing everything just different enough from Windows to be annoying, like why are the window close buttons on the left?!

Thanks, that’s good to know! From what I’ve read a few months ago when I last looked into it, it only worked with a fan-made launcher that posed a ban risk and also broke every few updates.

In case you find a reader’s perspective useful: Whenever I see someone using AI images, I just close the article, as it feels very likely they used AI for the text too, and I’m not interested in consuming slop in any form.

You could vote with your wallet and just not play those specific ones.

Oh I’m not paying for them, but still one of my main daily drivers is Genshin, and I haven’t found such an enjoyable open world exploration in any other game I’ve tried. (I’m PC-only so haven’t tried Breath of the Wild.)

Regarding Adobe suite in a professional manner, I’m pretty sure they work on MacOS.

I would never touch a Mac, it’s way more of a walled garden than Windows.

Also I was talking about Adobe alternatives like Inkscape for Illustrator or Scribus for InDesign. From what I’ve read they are really not there yet. (Tried Inkscape a few times, but the UI is so unintuitive for my brain used to Adobe’s UI/workflow 😭)

Gives 6 more years for Adobe and my online games to start supporting Linux D: (or the Adobe alternatives to become more suitable for professional use)

throws more heat than light

Thanks, I haven’t heard this phrase before, but it feels quite descriptive :)

Thanks for the reframe! From what I’ve seen in Village Pump comments at the time, editors (including me) were upset bc putting LLMs into Wikipedia articles seems like an idea so obviously clashing with Wikipedia’s values and strengths, that it was a shock to see it taken as far as it got before the wider backlash. (Also put into wider context, the whole world seemed to be jumping onto the LLM bandwagon at the time, so it was dismaying to see Wikipedia do the same.)

It has to be said, they originally changed their stance due to the considerable editor pushback when they tried to introduce LLM summaries on the top of articles. So kudos to the editor community’s resistance! ✊

Thanks!

Regarding Ecosia, could it be that you deleted some related cookies accidentialy?

Not sure, I use uBlock Origin, but the site does remember my other settings, so it feels a bit shady.

wait how does that work, keyboard-only?