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maypop-the-dragon · 3 months

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PSA: Free Software

Reading this may really save your time, privacy, and money! Reblog or share to spread awareness!

Folks often use software that’s expensive and sometimes even inferior because they don’t know there are alternatives. So to those unfamiliar: basically, free and open-source (FOSS) or "libre" software is free to use and anyone can access the original code to make their own version or work on fixing problems.

That does not mean anyone can randomly add a virus and give it to everyone—any respectable libre project has checks in place to make sure changes to the official version are good! Libre software is typically developed by communities who really care about the quality of the software as a goal in itself.

There are libre alternatives to many well-known programs that do everything an average user needs (find out more under the cut!) for free with no DRM, license keys, or subscriptions.

Using libre software when possible is an easy way to fight against and free yourself from corporate greed while actually being more convenient in many cases! If you need an app to do something, perhaps try searching online for things like:

foss [whatever it is]

libre [whatever it is]

open source [whatever it is]

Feel free to recommend more libre software in the tags, replies, comments, or whatever you freaks like to do!

Some Libre Software I Personally Enjoy…

LibreOffice

LibreOffice is an office suite, much like Microsoft Office. It includes equivalents for apps like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, which can view and edit files created for those apps.

I can't say I've used it much myself yet. I do not personally like using office software except when I have to for school.

OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is, as the name suggests, a video editing program. It has industry-standard features like splicing, layering, transitions, and greenscreen.

I've only made one video with it so far, but I'm already very happy with it. I had already paid for a video editor (Cyberlink PowerDirector Pro), but I needed to reinstall it and I didn't remember how. Out of desperation, I searched up "FOSS video editor" and I'm so glad I did. There's no launcher, there's no promotion of other apps and asset packs—it's just a video editor with a normal installer.

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is an image editor, much like Photoshop. Originally created for Linux but also available for Windows and MacOS, it provides plenty of functionality for editing images. It is a bit unintuitive to learn at first, though.

I've used it to create and modify images for years, including logos, really bad traceover art, and Minecraft textures. It doesn't have certain advanced tech like AI paint-in, but it has served my purposes well and it might just work for yours!

(Be sure to go to Windows > Dockable Dialogs > Colors. I have no idea why that's not enabled by default.)

Audacity

Audacity is an audio editing program. It can record, load, splice, and layer audio files and apply effects to them.

Audacity is another program I've used for a long time. It is not designed to compose music, but it is great for podcasts, simple edits, and loading legacy MS Paint to hear cool noises.

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file manager and archive tool. It supports many archive types including ZIP, RAR, TAR, and its own format, 7Z. It can view and modify the contents of archives, encrypt and decrypt archives, and all that good stuff.

Personally, I use 7-Zip to look inside JAR files for Minecraft reasons. I must admit that its UI is ugly.

Firefox

Firefox is an internet browser, much like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, or Safari. While browsers are free, many of them include tracking or other anti-consumer practices. For example, Google plans to release an update to Chromium (the base that most browsers are built from these days) that makes ad blockers less effective by removing the APIs they currently rely on.

Aside from fighting monopolies, benefits include: support for animated themes (the one in the picture is Purple Night Theme), good ad blockers forever, an (albeit hidden) compact UI option (available on about:config), and a cute fox icon.

uBlock Origin

As far as I know, uBlock Origin is one of the best ad blockers there is.

I was on a sketchy website with my brother, and he was using Opera GX's ad blocker. Much of the time when he clicked on anything, it would take us to a random sponsored page. I suggested that he try uBlock Origin, and with uBlock Origin, that didn't happen anymore.

Linux

Linux is a kernel, but the term is often used to refer to operating systems (much like Windows or MacOS) built on it. There are many different Linux-based operating systems (or "distros") to choose from, but apps made for Linux usually work on most popular distros. You can also use many normally Windows-only apps on Linux through compatibility layers like WINE.

I don't have all four of these, so the images are from Wikipedia. I tried to show a variety of Linux distros made for different kinds of users.

If you want to replace your operating system, I recommend being very careful because you can end up breaking things. Many computer manufacturers don't care about supporting Linux, meaning that things may not work (Nvidia graphic cards notoriously have issues on Linux, for example).

Personally, I tried installing Pop!_OS on a laptop, and the sound output mysteriously doesn't work. I may try switching to Arch Linux, since it is extremely customizable and I might be able to experiment until I find a configuration where the audio works.

Many Linux distros offer "Live USB" functionality, which works as both a demo and an installer. You should thoroughly test your distro on a Live USB session before you actually install it to be absolutely sure that everything works. Even if it seems fine, you should probably look into dual-booting with your existing operating system, just in case you need it for some reason.

Happy computering!

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shop-cailey · 1 year

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nm3217 · 3 years

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FINAL INDIVIDUAL PROJECT BLOG:

❤ Challenges i faced during this brand style guide project:

1. Balancing between graphics and text is kind of hard. If the texts can't be read well, i have to consider changing the background colour, or the fonts.

2. Alot of the colour choices i made (hex), had to do with trial and error and it took me too much time to decide on the best shade for the resume. I knew i could use Adobe create to find my colour palettes but they wouldnt know the vibe that i was going for, so i had to custom it.

The same thing happened for the sun in my logo. Since i wanted a greek mythology inspiration, it cannot be just any random sun, being placed at any random position. I initially picked a sun that is wholly black and it looked like an eyeball rather than a sun, so that was awful.

3. As the resume was created on photoshop, there were a lot of things i imagined my resume to look like, but didn't know. Like for instance, the gold texts on my business card. I had to youtube ways to make the gold metal words stand out better. Same is with the cropping of images using the lasso tool. But i'm really proud of how it turnt out.

❤ Development process:

1. The logo i envisioned was to be 3D-like. Hence i went with the gradient finish for gold, and added the greek inspired sun using the clipping mask on photoshop, within the key, to symbolise "positivity" within myself that will open many doors of opportunity for me (key logo). The whole shape was created on illustrator.

2. For the business card, i recoloured the background from a google image so that its darker and the gold pops out more. Then i had to youtube ways to create nice looking chrome letters in gold. Also had to google for ideas for what info to put on the card itself, since there are many variations, so i went for the simple, minimalist yet elegant route by including email, phone, name, title only. Took around 8 hours for both sides.

3. The resume was done through a lot of background research. My initial idea was to have greek statues representing different aspects of the resume (i.e. interests = apollo since he is talented, language = themis etc), but that is going to be confusing for people who dont know them at all during the forum presentation.

Hence i decided to go for vector images to represent myself in a more personal yet formal way. The resume will depict how my room looked, yet still indicating the relevant resume topics like how the globe is placed near the "languages" subtitle. All of it was done on photoshop: using the lasso tool to extract images from the net, recolouring it and then putting it on the canvas.

Since i chose only 4 colours, the shading is a pain because i had to choose between red or black for the background. If i chose black, it would be too dark for the letters to be read comfortably, and most of the images with black outlines would be too cumbersome to recolour. Hence i went with a more formal colour, red (compared to yellow). Choosing the images is also a meticulous work, because even though i did not manually draw them one after another, they have to fit in with the rest of the graphics in terms of design.

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