There’s always room for the token American on the panel shows 😊👌

I fucking love the thought of paying Big Corporate in ‘exposure’ 😂

Also my basic experience — nobody lost anything (Linux ISOs, obviously), because the alternative was not me buying something.

Edit: As an adult, I’ve spent more money on vinyl records in the last decade than I have buying music for the first three quarters of my life. And much of the music in the first three quarters was also on vinyl.

And then Spotify subscription fees since launch. What is that, 20 years? 😳 And now I’m trying to move to self-hosted because all of Spotify’s buying stock in weapon manufacturers and giving head to Dumbph & Friends is making me retch 🤢

Also, guessing their standard is pretty low if Gimp does the job — at least from a professional standard. There’s not much of a comparison.

Seconded.

* gruff New Jersey accent * Pack it in, boys!

Not particularly known for their eggy texture, though 🤔

Well that’s nice. Hopefully they have some teeth, so we don’t have to go through another one of Zuck’s crocodile-tears-fuelled hearings, followed by absolutely fuck-all change 🙄

In curious — what’s your user level in Photoshop? Tried GIMP a few times, and loathed it, as a professional (and very proficient) Photoshop user.

I also loathe Adobe*, but i’m stuck with them (and macOS) until someone comes up with a viable alternative 😓

Managed to get somewhat comfortable with Linux (Fedora+KDE Plasma) on an old Chromebook recently, so think I might be ready to leave macOS behind, if only there was a viable Photoshop option.

* Both for bloated code, inconsistent shortcuts and features across apps, and their shitty subscription scheme.

Shit dude, this is a public instance! Think of your family! 😳

/s

Slightly unrelated — was watching a Danish military analyst’s commentary on the farcical white house shit-show the other day, and he had this really great line (I’ll paraphrase): “The interesting thing with [Chump] isn’t what he’s going to do next, it’s what he’ll do when it fails” 😂

Video link for those interested (quite good, and in English).

Someone mentioned that to me, but said the story had been attempted scrubbed from the web — anyone have a link?

Edit — Never mind, nothing was scrubbed, that was the shortest Google search I ever did 😅

In mother America, car IDE’s you!

Joking aside — how the fuck are they getting away with this shit?! A company with zero armored car experience (fuck you, Cybertruck) gets a 400M government contract out of the blue? While the CEO of said company is employed by the same government, and a personal “friend” of the president?!

Seriously, if corporations are people, when the fuck are they going to start screaming their heads off?! Are none of the American car manufacturers enraged by this?!

America is so completely fucked.

It’s only a matter of time before 6 Flags is just 1000 AIs on rollercoasters.

… wasn’t OpenAI not also …

Uhm. No? Or yes? Maybe? 🤔😅

“… reports Chinese state propaganda branch, through western media …” 🙄

We have a Samsung “smart” TV, hooked up to an AppleTV box. The TV’s original remote is in a drawer somewhere, forever unused.

I have the apps that I need, the tiny Siri Remote turns on the TV and handles volume, and, apart from the aggressively, insanely, mind-blowingly horrible on-screen “keyboard” / text input (we don’t have Apple phones we can use to mitigate this, sadly. Also, what the fucking fuck, Apple?!) we’re happy. For now. I trust Apple to make the experience incrementally worse as a fact of life.

Not perfect, but leagues better than dealing with Samsung’s interface.

either

Is there any indication that they won’t implement this shit at some point?

Also, should we be trying to come up with the most insane “features” in this vein that we can imagine (knowing full well that some corporation will come up with them eventually), and then patent them to protect humanity from them?

Is there any organization that collects patents just to block them (in the consumer’s favor)? A kind of white-hat patent troll? And, if not, should we create one?

I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future … 🐰

Edit: ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

Exactly! Seems like a very “Yo Dawg!”-moment to me.

The less Microsoft I need, the better, and recently switched from VS Code to VS Codium, which, I believe, puts me at 100% free of Microsoft 😍

(Barring some M$ code in other software I use that I don’t know about)

That requires that you trust the app vendor not to have some sort of back door, no?