So, I make things for myself to replace commercial software that either doesn't exist or that is becoming (or will become) enshittified like all commercial software.
I like to cook, for instance. It's a hobby of mine. Cooking, BBQ, grilling, baking, all of it. So of course, I have recipes and they are important to me. I could spend all my time painstakingly entering all my recipes into recipes dot com or whatever, right? But of course, as soon as I do that, their barely usable app that does almost everything I want (and a hundred things I don't give a shit about) gets updated in the third update of the week (rolleyes) and they have completely changed the UI and on top of that, they removed a feature that I used daily.
OR - I could just make my own fucking app. Which I did. It's awesome, it does everything I need and nothing I don't. It also doesn't update every thirty seconds and become less and less usable or require me to completely overhaul my workflow because the programming staff and middle management need to justify their existences.
I also recently made a wishlist extension for Firefox, because Amazon removed the ability to add non-Amazon items to their wishlist. I have probably a dozen other ideas I'm working on at any given time. None of this is to make money, but just to make my life more convenient and unplug myself from the wider (bullshit) Internet as much as possible.
Yeah no. Even if the United States sits out on it's dumb fat orange ass, Russia is not likely looking to pick an active fight with all of Europe when it's disinformation warfare can disassemble Europe from the inside out, given enough time.
40% of the nation's budget is blown on military spending, the next highest military spender, China, spends a quarter what the United States spends.
Of course, none of it matters if you just refuse to collect taxes. So DOGE "saved" 180 billion, it's not true but even if it was - the fuck does it matter in the face of a 4.2 trillion reduction in tax assessments?
CDs are too small, so yeah. DVDs on the other hand? Optical disks are the only practical media that is EMP-proof. After the apocalypse, I'll still have all my coding projects, thank you very much.
It's been clear for over a decade that the Creation Engine (let's be honest it's still Gamebryo) has run its course. It is not a viable option for a modern game anymore. It has architectural limitations that simply prevent a modern gaming experience.
And yet, I'm having a blast with Oblivion Remastered. The problem with Starfield is that the writing sucks and the game loops aren't fun. Because of these things it's an unforgivable bore. Oblivion proves you'll trudge back and forth and deal with all the copied and pasted caves in the world if the story is engaging and the gameplay loop is fun. The dated engine has little to do with Starfield's problems.
Was going to say this. Unlike Gimp, Photopea's UI is extremely similar to Photoshop so it's much more intuitive to use if you come from that background.
I don't think they sound particularly like a human baby because I can't stand the sound of a human baby crying but when my cat talks I melt into a useless gibbering idiot food dispenser.
"Do your research" is a dogwhistle and of course what it really means is "Google what you want to be true and read all the shit from morons like you who agree with you."
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This is the kind of thing that AI is actually pretty great at.