lmmarsano , to MeanwhileOnGrad in Fascist bootlickers call Piefed a CIA op and thought policing because [checks notes] it has admin tools for checking upvote/downvote reputation

Any moderation that goes beyond the content of a message in context is questionable.
Plus, some of us take pride being constantly downvoted as gadflies for challenging lack of critical thought where it's most inconvenient & unwelcome.
Moderating based on "reputation" leads to unreflective conformity hostile to the "wrong" questions.

Post needs link to source, because that image of text ain't helpful for web accessibility or digging the source for deeper context.

Images of text break much that text alternatives do not.
Losses due to image of text lacking alternative such as link:

  • usability
    • we can't quote the text without pointless bullshit like retyping it or OCR
    • text search is unavailable
    • the system can't
      • reflow text to varied screen sizes
      • vary presentation (size, contrast)
      • vary modality (audio, braille)
  • accessibility
    • lacks semantic structure (tags for titles, heading levels, sections, paragraphs, lists, emphasis, code, links, accessibility features, etc)
    • some users can't read the image due to lack of alt text (markdown image description)
    • users can't adapt the text for dyslexia or vision impairments
    • systems can't read the text to them or send it to braille devices
  • web connectivity
    • we have to do failure-prone bullshit to find the original source
    • we can't explore wider context of the original message
  • authenticity: we don't know the image hasn't been tampered
  • searchability: the "text" isn't indexable by search engine in a meaningful way
  • fault tolerance: no text fallback if
    • image breaks
    • image host is geoblocked due to insane regulations.

Contrary to age & humble appearance, text is an advanced technology that provides all these capabilities absent from images.

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Full throttle

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Minor vent about usability...

Some FOSS is pretty darned good in some or most respects, but then you run into a sharp edge or missing battery that makes you .

The , besides the name, has one such. It is widely lauded for its abilities when images. I don't print much in the way of photography or fine art, so it's not something I personally notice, but a lot of people swear by it.

However, if you search the web for "how to print a large over multiple ", you will find that the only way to do it is to cut the image up into separate, smaller images, and then each chunk can be printed to a page. You have to basically do this by hand (there's a function that can chop an image into pieces according to your settings, but that's it as far as automation goes), and if you want to fit the resulting pages together, you've got to make sure you preserve the DPI across multiple images, and ensure there's no overlap or missing bits, etc.

There are a ton of results for people looking for how to accomplish this, and all the replies are "You can't, do it by hand". Considering how trivial the necessary operations are for a computer, it's a .

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NUDIBRANCH!

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A WordPress plugin that rewrites image URLs for near-zero-cost delivery

https://wordpress.org/plugins/bandwidth-saver/

-saving

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Tired of the commercial antics of Adobe and Affinity?

Here are some nice free or affordable image / vector editor alternatives…

● Acorn: https://flyingmeat.com (Mac only)

● Darktable: https://www.darktable.org (Adobe Lightroom alternative)

● GIMP: https://www.gimp.org

● Graphite: https://graphite.rs

● Inkscape: https://inkscape.org

● Krita: https://krita.org

● Paint.net: https://getpaint.net (Windows only)

● Photoline: https://www.pl32.com

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Can a biology person explain this? It looks neat.

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ICYMI: Michael Reed checks out the much-awaited @GIMP 3 release with a non-destructive workflow and an improved codebase
https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2025/297/Gimp-3.0?utm_source=mlm

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It's still , which means people are re-designing tarot cards in various ways. This is my take on The Devil, inspiried by listening to other parents on the playground.

(I understand The Devil as a card for things that limit and constrain you. Such as peer pressure and expectations.)

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Ok. If ever you want to try Bazzite, here's the download link: https://bazzite.gg/#image-picker

Then choose: Desktop > Nvidia RTX Series > KDE > Traditional Desktop.

I have an Nvidia GPU, can I game on Linux?

I still see people asking which distro to use, is it ok if they have an Nvidia card? How ready is Linux for a gamer? I have been 8 months now on Linux, it's about this hard to have an Nvidia card: click update. The way I switched was to populate the second m.2 slot on my MB and install Linux there, I chose Nobara, that way I had ...

Filetternavn , to Linux in I have an Nvidia GPU, can I game on Linux?
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I second that Nvidia is fine on Linux. I have an Asus gaming laptop with an Nvidia card that I use daily with no issues whatsoever, including in games (though do keep in mind some anticheat games blacklist Linux; that is not a compatibility issue, it is a conscious choice by the game makers, so not the fault of Linux). I recommend that anyone who is thinking about installing Linux checks their frequently played games on https://www.protondb.com/, and check any games they plan to buy there before purchasing them.

I'd also like to make a recommendation for a distro. If you want the easiest, practically no way to break it distro, I'd recommend Bazzite. You can select an option on download that includes the Nvidia drivers in the install so there are no extra steps to install them. It's about as easy as it gets for gaming on Linux (it even comes with Steam preinstalled!). Find it at https://bazzite.gg/. It's always what I recommend for Windows gamers thinking about switching to Linux (and choosing the KDE Plasma image bc it's more Windows-like than GNOME). The other great part is that it's immutable, so there is consistency across installs, it's much harder to accidentally break, and you can roll back to a previous version in the bootloader if anything does break. Most things a person will want to install can be found in Flathub via the Discover app (or sometimes an AppImage), so most people wouldn't really need to mess with rpm-ostree package overlays (tho they really aren't difficult, but only use them as a last resort since it often makes updates a lot slower). I personally think that atomic distros are the most newcomer-friendly option out there. They just work, and they do so consistently. Unless you mess with package overlays, your exact root filesystem will be tested before an update is pushed, and bugs that do show up will typically be found quickly and fixed quickly due to the fact that the same bug will likely happen for everyone else (the exception is hardware-based or firmware-based issues, of course).

Just my 2 cents, having switched to Bazzite after over a decade on Linux, from Linux Mint, to Ubuntu, Manjaro, Arch, Void, Fedora Workstation, and Fedora Kinoite.

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