I think my philosophy when making software is that it should work for people with zero money or no bank account / credit card.
I know it's not a popular mindset to be in since money and profit is everything in the tech world.
I think it comes from growing up as a kid with no disposable income or access to anything but my shitty computer.
I'd rather support people with almost nothing than people with latest and greatest tech gizmos and spare cash for subscription services. 😅
TIL about https://www.picmix.com/ for making collages out of gifs
@mauve you could also bring little presents to give them, like seasonal vegetables or a home-made jam, I hear if you do that enough people will want to marry you 🤔
when you start considering 'marketing and advertising' as a kind of psychologically abusive manipulation, and you consider how chatgpt is already specifically structured to "encourage engagement" by means of psychologically abusive manipulation, the use of the latter for dispensing the former becomes perfectly obviously effective.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍