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detritus
·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
Indeed, I'm fairly confident that I very specifically stated as much, as the fundamental underpinning of my comment.

You might be interested in https://www.reddit.com/ .
detritus
·قبل 16 يومًا·discuss
Out of interest, what value do you think that a comment like that has, in a forum such as this? You're not likely to be informing people with information they're not already abundantly aware of.

Whereas the person you're responding to is adding value, for me at least. I am in what might be an edge-case position where I need to run software specific to Windows and, much more importantly run hardware that uses drivers which seemingly don't work on Windows 11 (I only learnt recently, whilst planning to finally 'upgrade').

I couldn't even begin to do what I do, ably and competently at least, in a Linux environment.

And I've had at least one laptop for general use running some flavour of Linux for about 16 years now.
detritus
·قبل 23 يومًا·discuss
Oh! haha, sorry, it was late and I was a couple of drinks in when I first responded.

D'oh.
detritus
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
Rogen quote? I don't know what that is.

I think you're over-complicating this.

It's literally just Score Points.

That's all he cares about.
detritus
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
By his metrics? Probably.
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·قبل 25 يومًا·discuss
It's a game to him.

He won.

Let's move on.
detritus
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Yeah, I'm at once awed that something like that can be auto-generated (I presume?) and disappointed that it doesn't usefully or practically improve my understanding, beyond written synopses and human videos, at all.

Stuff like this reminds me that we still need a human in the loop to edit, to improve, to advance.

Auto-from-scratch just doesn't really achieve anything of actual value.
detritus
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Yeah, I get that. But does it actually make them feel better?

What do they say about sugaring trauma?
detritus
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
heh, funny you say that - I just yesterday almost bit at some obvious Nego-Trolling on here and remembered "Just don't engage".

Some people, for some reason at certain points in their life, just want to shit on other people's stuff, any way that they can, for... reasons.

I mean, clearly it's not to make themselves feel better, because how on Earth could that work?

There's no value in engaging, in any way whatsover. Sadly there's very little that can be done to prevent that form of human behaviour, without otherwise souring the experience for the generality.

*shrug, whatchagonnado?
detritus
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
eh, unfortunately it's not today's work that's impacted (beyond wasting some time), but this weekend's, which I thought I had wonderfully set up, taking advantage of time whilst my family's away.
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·الشهر الماضي·discuss
It's been a fun day for me today - my bank here in the UK suffered downtime which not only affected the app and online banking, but also online and possibly offline payments too.

I was glad when it finally came back on, after four hours off, so that I could order some material for a job... only to find that my supplier's site wasn't working. It's on shopify.

So too the two the other suppliers I use who offer the same thing I need, so I'm kinda stuffed as ordering from anytime now means I likely won't get my stuff in before the weekend, which is when I was planning on working with it.

Wonderful.
detritus
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I find there's a certain flavour of Scot that's quite gesticulative - I know that I'm one. My partner's Italian and I guess my gesticulation's ramped up since we've been together because when I watched footage from an event recently, I was borderline horrified at how wild my expressions and gesticulations were, especially as the person I was talking to (well 'at', seemingly) is an impressively English sort. Made for quite the contrast in manner.

I looked like I was trying to sell Guybrush Threepwood a sinking ship... .
detritus
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Yet the same skill that leads to perfect flatness then also leads to being able to make something look organic and natural, should they so wish.

It's about honing ability and competence.
detritus
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Funny, I'm reading this as very dry, tongue-in-cheek humour.
detritus
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Define 'logically organised' in the context of 'a creative' using a piece of software?

Back in the Mac vs. PC days, people would argue themselves blue in the face about which system was the 'more logical' with the non-answer essentially boiling down to the extent of one's experience and the preference of one's capacity to plumb the depths of the preferred OS.

Here, we're discussing a means for people who might otherwise not have any desire to use GIMP being able to use GIMP without having to throw said thousands of hours of experience. Whether they then want to transition to a GIMP-first comprehension of the software is another matter entirely.

This gets rid of the speedbump.

Unfortunately, it doesnt get rid of the singularly-offputting name, but that's a matter for another thread.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
er.. no - I've been a daily user of Photoshop since '98 or so, but after getting annoyed with Adobe's subscription model a few years back I bought Affinity Photo and looked to move over entirely to that, yet I ended up back in Photoshop purely because of literal decades of muscle memory meant that every interaction that I had with Affinity's offering came with an undesirable cognitive speedbump.

I'm not a fan of Gimp (haven't given it a shot in over a decade, to be fair) but if it covers the basic capabilities of PS and provides for an almost straight swap for users looking to change, then it is literally the layout and shortcuts that will be the decider for them.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
egh, as much as I enjoyed his Dogme 95 fayre when I was young and far more self-important, I find his later 'big cinema' output turgid twaddle.

Melancholia was just about bareable but from Mandalay onwards I could barely struggle through to the end of his flicks.

Nymphomaniac made me almost literally angry at its denouement. Just.. shit.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
The origin of 'dark DNA' begins to make more sense through this sort of lens, except the system somehow maintained a level of compensation to fix all its flaws.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
It's hard to believe, and I repeatedly said as much to people who thought as much prior to the vote who 'pfffd' me in response, and yet here we are.

The right to vote on fundamental societal issues should come with some sort of mental means testing. I'm only half-kidding. I think.
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·قبل شهرين·discuss
It is? Or is it just a pragmatic dislike?