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  • kadup@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?
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    3 months ago

    Let me hijack your comment mentioning Krita with another KDE app: Okular!

    I simply can’t believe a PDF app can be this performant, this fully featured, and entirely free. It even works on Windows, if you’re trapped in that nightmare.

    Adobe Acrobat Reader, from the people who created the PDF format, is unbelievably slow, it takes a thousand steps through an ugly UI to do anything useful, and any feature you actually care about is locked behind payment. Okular, a free tool, will load PDFs instantly, render previews flawlessly, let you edit, sign, merge, add text, select text, whatever you wish.

    And KDE creates this app and a thousand others for less money than Mozilla wasted on some random bs last year. Long live KDE.

  • kadup@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Does the US really have no instruments in case a newly elected president immediatelly and openly exposes he's a nazi?
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    4 months ago

    a huge emphasis on giving the people the power to write their own collective destiny.

    A functional democracy is not a dictatorship of the majority, and people from the US love making this mistake. It is true that the president gets elected by a majority vote… but this person now represents everyone, including the minority that opposes them. They do not have the right to sink the ship and kill everyone because the majority thinks that’s a good idea.

    It is natural that their government will make decisions aligned with their voters (in theory) but they shouldn’t be allowed to actively undermine the rights of everyone else.

    No matter how inflated your perception of your “flawless” constitution and democracy is, this is something many countries understand pretty well and yours struggles with.