Internet communities are heavily censored if you want discuss anything that falls outside of mainstream centrist or conservative right-wing narratives. Try discussing left alternatives to capitalism on any of the major platforms. Shadow banned to the void. Even discussing industry centric unionization efforts and workers rights issues gets you zapped.
This is another argument for need more democratically controlled, worker-owned enterprises. There shouldn't be a situation where this is possible [As VPs/Directors have told me on multiple occasions "we sell to the decision makers." And with how short-term decision making is for most companies, ESPECIALLY large/public ones, it's very easy to make that sale via "no one ever got fired for..."/bundle deals/incentives/etc.] The devs doing the work should be the ones making these decisions collectively, not ignorant, short-term thinking execs.
Yesbut… is it true? MSFT is very successful long-term.
You’re making an assumption that teams having control over their work will lead to better quality of product (which i agree) and then (I assume you predict), in return, will result in better financial performance.
But is that true? I am not so sure. I worked in some banks and it is very easy to come up with better products for consumers… that will make less revenue to the banks. I also worked in big tech, and so how prioritizing UX over paying customer requests is virtually impossible.
Oh… i also observed teams ACTIVELY not wanting to take steps to improve products because it would lead to taking risks, and most corporations incentivize you to he risk-averse.
This is a very interesting topic, with few clear answers beyond “culture has to be very good to build good products”
maybe MS is a bad example, MS is also a monopoly in many respects. Most companies aren't these giants. We've all been in a situation where the C team/upper management make terrible decisions like this without concerning themselves with what the employees doing the work have to say. There are more of those types of situations than being an employee for a market sector monopoly. a company can thrive without its board of directors and handful of owners, but now without its employees.
I've tried this tool a few times over the years. It's quite far from being intuitive. Maybe it makes sense to professionals to work in the field full-time, but for a regular mortal who just wants to edit a video, it's impossible to grasp.
Even something as basic as opening a video file is a huge challenge. I can't just open a video file. Instead, I need to "create a new project", which requires that I specify the exact resolution and FPS of the video file beforehand (why!?). After I use a completely separate tool to extract these attributes from the video that I'm editing, I have a blank canvas onto which I can drag the actual video.
You are doing something wrong. What you need to do is launch kdenlive, then select Project → Add Clip or Folder and select the video. Then drag it into the timeline (I just did some googling the first time).
The UI is somewhat clumsy but I think it is pretty good that we have an open source video editor.
Been using Kdenlive for everything for years now and it's really feeling great now. There are a few quirks you need to learn but generally it's quite simple and intuitive with a huge community and most big LLMs can guide you through the processes!
I recently ( a few months ago ) finally caved an bought Davinci Resolve for linux and despite that I almost exclusively use Kdenlive instead every time I quickly want to make a video.
This of course is most likely a skill issue at my part but it really feels to me like kdenlive is getting in the way of my flow much less than davinci
I really tried to onboard on Davinci Resolve but it's just too complex for the basic editing I need. It does have brilliant color grading options that are not available in Kdenlive but I'm using premade LUTs for 99% of my edits and Kdenlive supports LUTs really well these days!
Used it instead on Davinci Resolve on a few computer because Davinci Resolve require GPU and doesn't always recognize it - so it doesn't even start. Kdenlive doesn't have this issue.
I've made a couple photo/music montages with both tools. Not an advanced user, but I found Kdenlive was more stable on Ubuntu and the UX is similar between the two.
I'd never sync my shell history with a third party. The self-hosting option looks interesting, but anyone comfortable with syncing their shell history with a third party is severely lacking basic privacy literacy and underestimates the sensitivity of command history.
You can use atuin without syncing it between multiple machines.
I have my shell environments divided up into different distrobox containers. Some of them sync between multiple machines. Some of them don't. Depends what the shell is for.
