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    oeuf ,

    Great choice. And if you do ever find yourself in a hurry for the latest version of something, there is flatpak and appimage.

    It is a wonderful time to be a Linux user.

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    oeuf ,

    Paywalled for me.

    oeuf ,

    I think a bit part of it is that it's simply become harder to live with ADHD and for it to stay under the radar in your life. Rare is the person who can survive in the modern world purely on their wits. It demands that you persevere at jobs, careers and relationships over long timespans, and against an onslaught of things which have been relentlessly developed and refined over generations with the express purpose of hijacking your dopamine system and interfering with your free will.

    oeuf ,

    I'm running a couple of smaller chat models on my mid-range new-ish laptop and they're fairly quick. Try out Jan with something like their jan-nano model on whatever you've already got and get a feel for what you can do.

    Seriously, Why GIMP Dev(s), Why??

    Honest to gods, this conversation happened today, and it may have cost me a job opportunity. The customer was super impressed with my menu design and animation, and wanted to know who we got it from. When I said I did it, their face lit up! Too bad as soon as i said GIMP, they weren't interested anymore. Has anyone else ...

    Picture of post from my Bluesky of a convo between me and a customer... {Convo between me and a customer today: "neat menu, i really like it." "thanks, I made it." -me "Really? How?" "I used Gim... and an online program, Canva to animate it." "Im sorry, Gim?" "Umm, GIMP. It stand for GNU Image Manip..." "GIMP?? Like the suit?" "No, not like the suit." why, gimp dev!? }
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    oeuf ,

    Things have changed in more recent versions of GIMP. Pasting layers is simple now and you can even drag and drop them between images. You can also now use any filter nondestructively, even which Photoshop can't do.

    oeuf ,

    Strange times when a government contract gets cancelled because the government themselves are hopelessly corrupt, rather than it getting cancelled because the company is atrocious.

    oeuf ,

    What are your favourites?

    oeuf ,

    you can expect 0-2% output from a panel in the winter time

    I can confirm this. My family is off-grid and there have been extended periods the last two winters when it has simply been too dark for too long to depend on the solar without installing 50x more panels.

    Also, the problem with having larger battery capacity to span these periods is that if they don't get fully recharged or cycled properly the batteries get damaged and eventually die. We learnt that the hard way.

    Solar is the undisputed champion for 80-90% of the year but needs to be complemented with something else for the remainder, if you want uninterrupted on-demand electricity.

    oeuf ,

    This extremely cool.

    oeuf ,

    The only book reviews that get me excited to read a book are from BBC Radio 4. I have no idea why.

    oeuf ,

    Medical care is fantastic and should be accessible to everyone, but it's not magic. If you eat terrible food it will send you to the afterlife, even with the best healthcare in the world.

    oeuf ,

    You can share screen and camera on Jitsi Meet, which is a video-conferencing app. Not sure if there is any recording function built-in but you could just record everything with OBS.

    oeuf ,

    Guix has a cool logo IMO.

    oeuf ,

    I love this. It will be great if more kids in towns and cities can grow up with wild creatures around.

    oeuf ,

    The idea of the UK not having a 'sovereign' nuclear deterrent is based on supply chain stuff.

    There's nothing stopping us launching all our nukes if we wanted to, it's just that we'd have to order some bits in from outside of the country to replenish the missiles used to carry the warheads (which are made here). That's if any of the suppliers were still alive after we'd started nuclear Armageddon...

    oeuf ,

    Check out the YUNOhost repos. If everything you need is there (or equivalents thereof), you could start using that. After running the installation script you can do everything graphically via a web UI. Mine runs for months at a time with no intervention whatsoever. To be on the safe side I make a backup before I update or make any changes, and if there is a problem just restore with a couple of clicks via my hosting control panel.

    I got into it because it's designed for noobs but I think it would be great for anyone who just want to relax. Highly recommend.

    oeuf ,

    I love being on Debian, everything just working and not living in fear of updates. And any software that I must have the latest version of I just install via flatpak, appimage, distrobox etc.

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    oeuf ,

    I've been wondering if something like this existed! It seems like a cross between Cherrytree and Minder, both of which are very cool.

    Mixapps - shareable playlists that work offline ( github.com )

    Lately I’ve been thinking about the mix CDs I used to burn for friends. Building the perfect mix for someone took a lot of time and intention, but it was a great way to expose friends to the rare musical gems I’d discovered, and sometimes, they even returned the favor. ...

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    Great idea 👍 I really like this. Does it require use of the command line to make the mixtapes/playlists?

    oeuf ,

    A GUI would be great. I wonder if something like Faircamp could be used as a backend to essentially make a simple static website which can be viewed offline with a browser. With a template it's just a case of dropping files into a folder.

    oeuf ,

    The impact on kids is bigger but as adults we are also not immune. I suspect that a significant number of parents are putting their kids in front of a screen so they can use a screen themselves.

    I think that as we indulge more and more in high dopamine-stimumating things like screens, processed foods and drugs of various kinds, and as those things get more and more potent, it gets harder and harder to find the motivation and competence to maintain what they replace, like good relationships and community. This a compounding and self-reinforcing problem because the worse life gets, the more attractive these things become as an escape, and the more you escape the more the rest of your life gets worse.

    Its the classic downward spiral of addiction. On a massive scale.

    oeuf ,

    Thank god. I feel like I've been cringing for months.

    oeuf OP ,

    Good idea, I should have thought of this!

    oeuf ,

    The nuclear warheads are actually made in Berkshire. The 'delivery systems' i.e missiles they are mounted on and the surrounding tech often comes from the states and gets sent back there for refurbishment and testing every few years.
    The UK could do a lot of damage with what it already has in stock before needing to get more. I agree that the US should be cut out of all important supply chains though.

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    oeuf ,

    This is a good question and I'll be interested to see what others have to say. One thing I've noticed is that memories can transform into 'memories of memories'. What I remember is not the felt impression of something but what I subsequently told or showed myself about it. And it doesn't even just apply to childhood - I have same thing for big events in my life from last couple of years.

    I do find that it's possible to consciously dig deeper and unearth forgotten memories though.

    I'll also add that I think what constitutes a sense of 'self' is more than just memory.

    oeuf ,

    You should look at getting a laptop from Starlabs with Ubuntu preinstalled on it.

    oeuf ,

    The quality of their hardware is very high and reminds me of macbook pros that I've had in the past. They test their laptops on Ubuntu, so if you choose to have that preinstalled you know that everything will just work. I've run Debian and Fedora on mine and both have been fine too. The other good things in my book are that they use Coreboot which is an open source bios and their customer support is excellent.

    oeuf ,

    Shut up America.

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    oeuf ,

    Might that bill be of the big beautiful variety?

    oeuf ,

    Your shadowy plots are the most shadowy that the world has ever known. It's never been seen before. One could say that they are unprecedented. Historic even.

    oeuf ,

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    "Where would we be if we didn't have any rules?

    France."

    "Where would we be if we had too many rules?

    Germany."

    oeuf ,

    It sounds like what you're looking for is Bandwagon.

    oeuf ,

    I am way too happy using GIMP now to make use of this.

    oeuf ,

    Definitely! There are some really powerful plugins coming out for the 3.x series now too and there's even more great stuff to look forward to in the 3.2 release due out soon. Good times indeed 🤩

    oeuf ,

    I haven't gone too deep with Krita yet but I did try out some digital painting in it a few months ago and the brushes and brush dynamics were really nice to use.

    oeuf ,

    FWIW .psd support in GIMP is getting pretty good. Not sure what your use case is but it might be worth checking out if you haven't used it for a while.

    oeuf ,

    Just to put it out there: There are some excellent options for a linux-native photography stack which also work on windows and mac if you're interested in trying those out before switching. Darktable and Rawtherapee are both excellent raw developers and Digikam for library management and light editing. You should find that you can pass files between each for a seamless workflow. If you did switch to Linux you would also get Geeqie which is blazing fast for inspecting, culling and rating raw files and is also interoperable with the above apps.

    A really good resource for FOSS and Linux photography is pixls.us

    oeuf ,

    No probs :)
    You will love Geeqie then! Learn (or set) the basic shortcuts and a progressive marking/rating workflow and you'll be flying. I used to absolutely hate culling but now it's my favourite part of the process!

    oeuf ,

    If there is a third world war I think either everyone will lose in one day (nuclear weapons), or it will be sabotage and 'special military operations' everywhere for decades, and not named as a world war until later.

    Would an ActivityPub enabled fediverse alternative of Discord be possible?

    There seems to be a serious lack of a Discord equivalent fediverse platform unlike other social media alternatives. Most of the closest options are either too overwhelming in UI/UX for majority of people coming from Discord, missing deal-breaking features like video calling or are not federated. ...

    oeuf ,

    Nextcloud talk has federation?

    oeuf ,

    I had no idea... How is it used? Can I sign in with a fediverse client app using a Nextcloud account and start commenting on stuff?

    oeuf ,

    Ok, got you. That's still pretty cool.

    oeuf ,

    He said this included a populist tendency to deride domestic and international institutions as “distant, unresponsive and acting for the benefit of powerful and uncontrollable interests”.

    I wonder why that might be.

    oeuf OP ,

    Yes! I started playing this and really enjoyed it but I got stuck and couldn't work out where to go. I'll see if I can find a walkthrough.