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I was just taking issue with the responses ignoring the context given, and rudely.
Yup. The fediverse is usually better than reddit but it looks like today several people got up and chose angry instead of helpful. It happens for sure. I do love how helpful some of these have been though. Lots of good advice among the arguments at least.
You brought up butts.
No I didn’t. You did. It’s right above my comment. Don’t lie. Everybody can see you mentioning butts first.
My point with going to an extreme with that is even you can agree there is a line somewhere where something shifts over the line of “too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes”.
And my point is that “too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes” being the current state of things is wrong and needs to change to allow for less serious things to exist.
There is a conflict here. There are at least three options to resolve it. Either the company needs to change, anubis needs to change, or the users complaining about the other two groups need to change.
I’m arguing that the company is wrong for not changing. I’m also arguing that the user is wrong for complaining about anubis’ branding. Hell, I’m even arguing that anubis is right for choosing to skip out on mainstream branding.
My point with going to an extreme with that is even you can agree there is a line somewhere where something shifts over the line of “too ridiculous to consider for serious purposes”.
In short, I’m saying that anubis is nowhere near crossing that line.
random visitor visits your website and they see a weird anime girl drawing talking about security, what is the chance of them just bouncing away afraid that it is a virus or an unsafe website?
Very high. And they’d be completely wrong in doing so.
Let’s not pretend that it’s the furries fault that everyone discounts their work because of how they present themselves, especially for things they are giving out for free.
That’s the neat part. You don’t. If they can’t get past the branding, that’s their problem.
Trying to force the issue makes it into anubis’ problem, which is a dick move for free software.
the unhinged and reality-divorced types who cannot understand something so simple as normal people thinking things are weird. Half the respondents here think you should scream at your coworkers
I’ve recommended the ploopy knob to coworkers before. I was in government work at the time. My current employer uses and recommends software called “keep ass”. This is a user problem first, and a software/branding problem a distant second. The comments here reflect that.
Yes, software developers put out things that are counterculture. Yes, that can make working with them more difficult than it might otherwise be.
No, you should not blame the software developer for this.
If the branding causes too many issues, don’t use it. The branding is there because the developer wants it there, and wants to have the type of customers that enjoy it, or can at least look past it. Everybody else being filtered out is a good thing.
And the P is capitalized, so the software is not presenting itself as keep ass.
It’s not called KeyPass either though. They did KeePass on purpose, and everybody uses it anyways.
Would your company use that software if it actually was? With a cartoon butt as the logo, not a key?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don’t live in that world, so I don’t know. My previous employer used it too. It’s kinda the standard for password management, just like anubis is. (which has a normal name and silly logo, as opposed to keepass which has a silly name and normal logo).
A butt is not the same as an animal person at all. The fact that you compared a cartoon mascot like Anubis’ to a cartoon butt says more about you than it does this conversation. Cartoon animal people as mascots is older than the internet by a mile.
Like would you give a second glance at choosing something like UwU.jajaja.lol or whatever for your antivirus? It puts out “we don’t take this seriously” vibes and that translates to “you shouldn’t take us seriously either”, which doesn’t mech well with a serious software function.
Yes. Currently my office uses a tool called “keep ass” as the primary password database management tool.
If a company can’t look past a cartoon mascot, it is best, for the developer of the tool, that company never actually uses the tool in the first place.
You can stop a lot of assholes at the door by putting a rainbow by the door handle. This is the same, and it’s working as intended.
I think a lot of people in this thread have missed the point a little. Money isn’t everything, and the branding is absolutely doing its job correctly here.
When advertising, you don’t just tailor your branding to the customers, but to the customers you want to have.
If you want to have lots of locals visit your restaurant, you post your ad in the local newspaper. This specifically excludes out of towners, and makes sure that everyone that visits is very likely a local, or someone who actually pays attention to local events.
If you want your scam to only reach stupid or mentally incapable people, you make sure to have several typos in your scam email. This filters out most everyone who might catch on halfway through if you had used a better formatted and written scam email.
If you want to exclude people who hate furries, might be transphobic, or otherwise problematic, you add a furry logo to your hobby project and make it very obvious what it is.
Having your branding and advertising filter out the idiots who hate furries is a feature, not a bug.
Yeah, but Xe Xaio also has a full time job that is funding things right now. There’s room for priorities other than profit, such as cute furry art. Not everything has to be about money.
Either you are a creep or otherwise come off as creepy due to Audhd things
That is one hell of a leap. Maybe don’t try to diagnose people on the internet?
The reaction you are describing is not reasonable
No, it is. Anubis being unprofessional is by design. It’s run by one person, as a hobby, as of last year. When you aren’t reliant on profit in order to run a project you are able to adjust your priorities away from ‘money at any cost’.
Well, only if you assume the end goal is to make profit from the various businesses out there.
Sounds like a big one to me. But I think it’s also fair to say ext4 isn’t really good for journaled data storage, especially compared to the competitors.
I don’t watch horror movies. I do not do well with them. It’s a blanket rule for me.
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New word! googles
Dammit, it’s just a new typo not a new word.
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Thanks for the writeup. I will never watch these, but it’s neat to be aware of what might be in the zeitgeist right now.
Well, except for the people that use the policy to keep their bosses accountable for letting them have comparatively reasonable hours.
I’ve used fedora in the past and enjoyed it. I’m just super basic and really love how cinnamon feels and looks. The other thing is I’m older now, and prefer to have a desktop that just works, or at least, keeps the same quirks it had last year, rather than having new quirks every update. I’ve been on the same install of mint for several years now because that.
For sure, this new update will likely be enough to get me to change my position on that if it works as I’m hoping it might.
As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too.
I just spent all of last weekend trying to get my 4Kx144hz monitor with DP1.4 and HDMi2.1 working over HDMI to connect to my 7900xt which has DP2.1 and HDMI2.1.
For reference; DP2.1>HDMI2.1>DP1.4 Best port my monitor has is HDMI2.1, and also DP1.4. Best port my card has is DP2.1, and also HDMI 2.1. It made no sense that HDMI2.1->HDMI2.1 had less resolution support than my previous DP2.1->DP1.4 setup did.
The monitor can do 4kx144 over DP1.4, but it requires DSC. When I switched over to HDMI to try and get 4kx144 without needing DSC (which HDMI2.1 can do), it just didn’t work, and the highest I could get was 4kx120. I chalked it up to somehow getting three different bad cables, a quirk of my Linux install (because my Linux mint install can only manage vrr on displayport if I unplug all but one monitor), or maybe a bad monitor port (this is a refurb model and not the only time I’ve had hardware issues with it). Now, I’m wondering if I’ll be able to do 4kx144 over HDMI without dsc once this new update comes out. And also if I’ll be able to get vrr running with multiple monitors plugged in too.
Scuttlebutt on the internet says that the next big mint release will be out at the end of the year, and only support kernel version 7.0, whereas this new amd update is for kernel 7.4, also set for release sometime around the end of the year. I may end up distro hopping sometime in January if I can find an out of the box experience for HDMI2.1, without dsc, and with vrr support. Or at least, with vrr support. That shit is actually really good for the games I play.
Ha! Shows what you know. I got a 256 year subscription at only 10x the price!
True, but only for a commercial offering.
False, for free or open source software. Makemkv is the absolute best tool for ripping DVDs and bluerays. It requires being compiled from source in order to be used for free. Anubis charges 50/month to change the branding. These both serve the same purpose; a mild speedbump to encourage paying for the work of the developer.
Anubis’ direct competitor will straight up hold your business hostage and blackmail your company for money when they feel like they can get away with it.
The ‘ridiculous hoops to jump through’ are there for the developers benefit, and are incredibly mild compared to most every other commercial offering. I just don’t see why it matters so much that anubis must change in this way.