Did you see there is now a book about enshittification that you can buy?
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ā¦ as I like to say when stepping out of the shower 
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Ah, sorry. Force of habit. Most forums forbid swearwords, but shirts are allowed.
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My English teacher often said: āOh, shhhhhhā¦ sugar!ā
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Canva talks big about no auto opt-in for this but it happens by default and you have to explicitly undo it. Big surpriseā¦
I just downloaded a copy of the Affinity Photo 2.0 installer while its still available, so I know I can rebuild it if necessary. I only use it occasionally and mostly for photo stitching and focus stacking (and that may change as Shine Stacker gains its legs), so Iām glad I donāt have to worry about any shenanigans from Canva.
Right now Iām feeling like Darktable and Rawtherapee are becoming a safe harbor for photo editing.
The latest 2.x version was 2.6.5, IIRC so you might want to grab a copy of that.
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Same with me! I bought it at a 50% discount one day specifically for the stitching and stacking features. But it turns out that I rarely use it because my enthusiasm for panoramas and focus stacking died down. The only other thing I use it for is printing because Darktable doesnāt print with Windows.
Iām feeling an urge to try macro again with my new M4/3 camera, but Iād much rather use Shine Stacker than Canva if I can.
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insert āalways has beenā meme here. 
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RMS, the FSF and many others have been preaching this for decades but people donāt listen. As corporations go back to increasingly proprietary solutions maybe the movement will have a revival. I am guilty of this too of course, trading some convenience where I can as itās really hard to go the full free software route
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I use Affinity for HDR, as LuminanceHDR doesnāt handle CR3 format and sometimes produces errors and it seems it isnāt being developed any more (I would if I could - but I canāt). Havenāt tried it for focus stacking - Iām using DPP from Canon (shame on me), it is slow as hell (you can really have a big pot of coffee meanwhile), but reads CR3, is easy to use, gives good results and you get it for free (if you use a camera from Canon).
Thanks for the heads-up, I just bought the book.
You will not regret it. but you might come out a bit more angry. 
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If I get angry because the book uncovered a new fact or phenomenon I feel angry about, that is fine.
What I dislike being agry about is if reading a book was a waste of time. Which happened recently. (Yes, Booker Prize 2025, I am looking at you.)
I have read a lot of books from Doctorow (including his novels) and they were all interesting.
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Iām just reading this from the local library. I knew some of it already, having followed a bit in real time the weird transformation of Effective Altruism into Long-Termism. (Iām sure itās just a coincidence that a bunch of self-defined rationalists and utilitarians happened to skew their beliefs more oligarch-friendly after getting millions of dollars in funding thrown at them.)
Decent read so far.
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So Linux people can feel the burn of enshitification and eventual subscriptionware too?? Yay?
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No quote, no source, this is likely just marketing-speak for āheck noā.
Iād love to see it, though.
Hello @bastibe
No quote, no source, this is likely just marketing-speak
Who knows ?
Also āporting Affinity to Linuxā is a bit too vague as a claim.
For instance:
It will run but only through Wine?
All features will be working or only a subset of them?
Most of all, it will be bug-free from the very inital porting (I doubt so)?
etc etc
Not to mention that I doubt it would be a great success on Linux.
Therefore, it wouldnāt be profitable for Canva in the long runā¦
Most of all, die-hard Linux useres, like the ones in this forum, are not likely prone to change their workflow, IMHO
It already runs via wine and you can find an appimage of it if thatās what you want.
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