Which ingredient do you attribute the kidney issues to?

I reckon 3.5/10 bad.

Yeah I think it was.

An interesting one too. It acts as a message to investors about AI’s power, but also a message to users about it being a really messy and shite tool.

If I ask a piece of software to accomplish a task I don’t want it to cause a buggerload of new problems in the process.

This is probably part of the reason why AI is getting so much investment but is not turning a profit.

Mine is on pretty much all the time. Capchas are indeed annoying, but I’m choosing to see that as something which helps me to be more intentional about my use of the internet.

My bank and government portal don’t seem to care about it, even if my traffic is coming from a random country on the other side of the world because I’ve forgotten to route through one of my VPN’s domestic servers. Online freelancing platforms, on the other hand, have instantly banned my accounts, and I’ve had problems with corporate social media (which I try and use for my business).

Man, I would be happy if my parents used any computer.

I mean my business has no problem using it here in the motherland of the English language…?

Any time we talk to a client about it they are just happy to hear that we’re using software that doesn’t ingest their work into AI, crash in the middle of consultations, and produces working files that will be usable forever.

When did it suck?

I’ve been using it professionally for the last 3 years or so and it’s no worse for UX than Photoshop, the ‘industry standard’.

Both GIMP and photoshop are very sophisticated and technical software (although Photoshop is becoming less so I should add).

People who want a leaner set of tools should have a look at something like Tux Paint.

Using / is awesome. Even if you know where things are in the menu it’s usually quicker to just type the first few letters and smash enter. I use it all the time.

GIMP is shaping up to be (and actually already is IMO) the best editor out there for nondestructive work.

Why should they change the name just for the vanity of Americans who have a dual meaning for the word, and make it difficult for the whole rest of the world to find tutorials and documentation going back decades?

Even more so by talking to the other people who work there.

YEAR 😠

I like seeing you use the thorns - please don’t stop!

I’ve come full circle with this and concluded that the best source is local people. I’ve spent so much time messing around, hungry, on the internet. Now I try to just ask a random person or two for a recommendation.

Sounds like you’ve been looking at All:Hot.

Re-sort by New, scroll, subscribe to communities you like, and then look at Subscribed.

Right at the moment when the US has become the most unappealing place to visit as a European…

I think in a lot of cases people have not much choice but to continue working in their job. In order to not go insane in that situation, a lot of those people willingly maintain the self-deception that they do actually want to be there and it is good. It allows them the make the best of the situation and to bond with colleagues etc.

When someone openly undermines that shared illusion there is actually quite a lot at stake emotionally for those people, and they don’t like it.

Luanti is awesome! Will check out the server 👍

Everything that I’ve tested. The wireless card is physically broken, so I haven’t been able to test that, but I had it running with FOSS drivers on Debian so I think it should be fine. From memory it was and Atheros chip from Aliexpress.

Thanks 👍