Reminds me of how Thunderbird does Matrix, IRC, Pidgin, RSS and others.

I think there is room for something like this.

My only request would be that I can have filters in my feed to remove posts with certain words or emojis or profiles with descriptions including emojis of people I don’t want to converse with online.

Yeah I totally agree, I love Photoshop UX colors and general function. It’s been a while though.

On the other hand GIMP has a HUD command palette with hotkey / and you can search for all image functions which is fine with me as I use my keeb a lot.

And I did import PS hotkeys to go with my many years of memory and it helped me feel at home much better.

I have used many image editors over the years and I can at least say for basic functions, cropping, scaling, art it opens fast compared to wine and the pre 3.x UI is so much nicer to use.

I would definitely not recommend a cold switch for anyone at a job, the transition would be frustrating and problematic. But learning the “life raft” as a backup seems sensible.

It was a hard hit to my ego going from a PS God back to a peasant in terms of output, but I’d say the last few years the tooling has improved tremendously and I can say I’m a novice or mid tier photo editor in GIMP.

The text tool is nowhere as robust as PS, I felt like PS was a all in one printer one stop shop. But then there’s Inkscape so I am okay with dividing my functions up among a few tools instead of only 1.

I’ve designed concepts for houses in GIMP as weird as that may seem.

God do I hate 2.8 and 2.10 UX it was soo bad in terms of getting out of my way and an embarrassment at work, 2.99.xx thankfully is light years apart.

Edit: Also the GEGL non destructive fx stuff is really interesting and G’MIC Qt addon filters

I used to feel that way about it 10+ years.

If you haven’t used it in a while (1y+) don’t even bother with the 2.10.xx – I use Krita, GIMP, Inkscape – did some image editing in GIMP yesterday and it went good.

Since the latter 2.99.xx releases my position & criticisms have changed. New UX, Non-destructive Layer Filters and the workflow has improved the software a lot. There is a ton of activity on their gitlab.

Its still not perfect but easily beats Photoshop Wine at all basic operations.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/

And since this post is about Photoshop. Don’t pirate it. Be the change in the world you want to see. Let Adobe Rot in Pieces for decades of being anti Linux and anti FOSS despite popular demand and big Hollywood bucks.

Make them a relic of a long forgotten decade. The sooner we can move on the better.

Also it’s a great indicator of agreement. The more upvotes the more people may resonate with haveing low interest.

Thanks, it restores my faith in our community to get a complement.

I felt like I had finally made it in life where I was sustaining and so I did maybe a dozen donations to software I actually used as a signal of thanks.

I tried to make the amounts at least equal to commercial counterparts or at $100 each since it’s enough of an amount a developer will understand the deep appreciation and value others have in their gifted labor and to encourage them to keep up the awesome work.

I probably did at least another 1k that year to specialized Linux FOSS apps that professionals use – KDE, gimp, krita, inkscape, libreoffice, etc… – I don’t have as much free time to put into bug reports and grinding triaging bugs so I figured material could be a way to help out.

Thanks for listening to me vent. IIUC that mod was later removed 6?m later after a burnout blowup and they unbanned a number of people as per request but I decided not to request being unbanned as I felt that the writing was on the wall and it underscored __ the need __ for Linux Forums and Communities to not be controlled by any one person, niche group, or commercial interest. Thus I made my avatar a picture of Mastodon on a 100k karma profile over 10 years of Linux and here we are in the future hopefully in a new place where we can be free and live by the principles of libre and FOSs to share and help each other.

In any case, sincerely thank you for being courageous and restoring my faith that there are people out there that share my values and digital love for open source. Cheers :)

Sent $500 to FOSS projects one month.

Banned from /r/Linux on BlackFriday for making a post trying to make Linux BF deals a thing and clear our reputation as a non-market.

Fuck you CAP_WHATEVER_JERK_NAME

In any case it demonstrated to me

#1. Fuck Reddit

#2. Fuck communities that are not autonomous with the power spread out.

10/10 would do again.

Edit: Also CAP – that friend who was diagnosed with cancer that same day is now deceased, thanks for showing me your lack of humanity & decency over petty bullshit. That shit catches up with you fast trust me.

I’d be open to considering those but I never had a website break it down in a material way. At best 6 to me is shiny and side grade – if it results in major labor and time spent without reasonable benefit within a LAN then it’s not going to be a humdinger. Of course like I said if there are arguments to be made I’m happy to contemplate them.

YMMV, for me the juice hasn’t been worth the squeeze yet and I’m not sure it ever will.

YMMV. Time, energy, compat*ability problems, unforseen issues which cost time debugging.

Again, I’m speaking for me – there has to be a tangible real benefit and within networks even with 100 devices IPv4 does the job better than fine and better than IPv6 for some folks.

Not to mention its just plain easier to remember 4 octet sets of numbers running from machine to machine in an office than 6 or 8 or whatever.

Yup, the benefits don’t outweigh the costs.

I have never used SAP, I have used this extensively, I believe you

This could easily be a quote by GlaDOS the way it reads.

Also, when can we get Internet over Radio? Good luck stopping waves bouncing off the stratosphere. Such a tech would immediately end censorship and lawfare using physics and science.

IPFS let’s gooooooo

Try gallium?

Fuck CloudFlare – I don’t like monopolies or monopolike.

Agree, even more so with the private cloud data. If your loved one dies and you want to visit multiplayer you created together in open world builders it would be shitty to take that away from them. Eg: Father and son played Minecraft together on LAN server or whatever (If that even is a thing)

Fine just create a digital corporation of your identity and assign rights to that instead. I hear they have the same rights as people.

Japan clearly doesn’t understand they need to make a Steam for manga.

AFAIK that’s already the deal. So the proposal is a improvement of the deal. Also don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Even CLA + GPL/MIT would suffice