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  • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    9 months ago

    What can’t I do with FOSS though?

    Whatever you’re about to say, let’s crowd fund it. I’m not even kidding.

    • deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      9 months ago

      Use industry software standards. Adobe, Autodesk etc etc. I know, these solutions sucks, but it is the world people live it. Most Lemmy people are into tech for the sake of tech. You are technological literate to the highest degree. Understand and critique developments in tech. Very important work! However, a graphical designer probably isn’t that literate and wouldn’t be able to do work in a Foss environment. Yes, 1 in a 1000 might use Gimp but good luck colabbing with other people in the industry.

      • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Yeah I know Gimp doesn’t use(or didn’t last time I checked) CMYK and as someone who does QA for flexographic printing, I know how that’s important.

        You’d think the world would put some effort into getting away from Adobe. All my homies hate Adobe.

        So. Why don’t we crowd fund our way to better solutions for these things?

        • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          9 months ago

          Krita is actually a very professional choice for some things people think they need Adobe products for. And it looks like Krita has CMYK support. Giving Krita more attention that it deserves would be welcome.

        • trougnouf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          There are open models that one can download on HuggingFace and run locally, but they are not as good as ChatGPT4 which has had insane® amounts of resources thrown at.

          • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            9 months ago

            But don’t we have to go through openai for gpt anyhow? Always have a browser for that.

            • trougnouf@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              9 months ago

              I don’t understand your question. GPT is proprietary and hosted by OpenAI. There are other large language models (LLM) that one can download (or even train if they are open-source or at least have a descriptive scientific paper and open training data) and host themselves, but they are not as powerful.

              • Mango@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                9 months ago

                So there’s no advantage to having windows as opposed to Linux for using it.

                • trougnouf@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  3·
                  9 months ago

                  It’s pretty much never advantageous having Windows to run AI stuff, it runs like dog shit and the drivers are not prioritized because no one does serious AI research using Windows.

    • PeterPoopshit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Security camera stuff is really lacking. The only good one is zoneminder. It mostly works but it breaks a lot.