electricprism @ electricprism @lemmy.ml

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https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

Also recommendations for a good remote to go with these?

I was so desperate I was thinking of reprogramming a wireless number pad cherry MX low profile or something.

It should have volume buttons, arrow keys, previous, next, pause, etc... Something a old person could understand.

Numbers and alphabet not required.

Smooth scrolling? Maybe I'm wrong

Yeah I totally agree, I love Photoshop UX colors and general function. It's been a while though.

On the other hand GIMP has a HUD command palette with hotkey / and you can search for all image functions which is fine with me as I use my keeb a lot.

And I did import PS hotkeys to go with my many years of memory and it helped me feel at home much better.

I have used many image editors over the years and I can at least say for basic functions, cropping, scaling, art it opens fast compared to wine and the pre 3.x UI is so much nicer to use.

I would definitely not recommend a cold switch for anyone at a job, the transition would be frustrating and problematic. But learning the "life raft" as a backup seems sensible.

It was a hard hit to my ego going from a PS God back to a peasant in terms of output, but I'd say the last few years the tooling has improved tremendously and I can say I'm a novice or mid tier photo editor in GIMP.

The text tool is nowhere as robust as PS, I felt like PS was a all in one printer one stop shop. But then there's Inkscape so I am okay with dividing my functions up among a few tools instead of only 1.

I've designed concepts for houses in GIMP as weird as that may seem.

God do I hate 2.8 and 2.10 UX it was soo bad in terms of getting out of my way and an embarrassment at work, 2.99.xx thankfully is light years apart.

Edit: Also the GEGL non destructive fx stuff is really interesting and G'MIC Qt addon filters

New Editor, by Atom Devs, Rust

I used to feel that way about it 10+ years.

If you haven't used it in a while (1y+) don't even bother with the 2.10.xx -- I use Krita, GIMP, Inkscape -- did some image editing in GIMP yesterday and it went good.

Since the latter 2.99.xx releases my position & criticisms have changed. New UX, Non-destructive Layer Filters and the workflow has improved the software a lot. There is a ton of activity on their gitlab.

Its still not perfect but easily beats Photoshop Wine at all basic operations.

https://www.gimp.org/news/2024/02/21/gimp-2-99-18-released/

And since this post is about Photoshop. Don't pirate it. Be the change in the world you want to see. Let Adobe Rot in Pieces for decades of being anti Linux and anti FOSS despite popular demand and big Hollywood bucks.

Make them a relic of a long forgotten decade. The sooner we can move on the better.

I read man in nvim, there is a alias on the arch wiki IIRC (and syntax highlighting)

Awesome, I think Final Fantasy 9 is DX8.

Fingers crossed for improvements to DX6 and DX7 as IIUC that will benefit OG FF7 and FF8.

Major props to DXVK and all the devs, running software and games in 2024 vs 2014 is day and night apart.

8 billion people, you do you. Also are we really complaining about more choices? In the spirit of FOSS, choice is good YMMV no prob

If Tesla won and Edison didn't imagine not even needing data over wired DC when the entire internet could be wireless AC.

@OP use a browser based proxy instance for these web services, works great

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

Just like the xz backdoor I agree "nothing to see here, move along" seems like bad advice.

It is curious to wonder how much state actors and militaries are involved in weaponizing FOSS culture to purge potential perceived opponents.

For this reason sticking to technological merit and leaving personal beliefs out of FOSS seems wise.

FOSS shouldn't be state actor's play thing. When leadership behaves radically and is exclusive it looses my respect & support.

For what sake?

My complaint was mostly targeting the big picture of everything living in /bin/

I inferred the 'user 0' thing to their credit like you, it just still felt really strange as numerals are kind of a no no when programming -- you can't begin variable and other names with them and I guess having them as a suffix feels strange too as it's not common practice.

It will definitely be the only utility I recall that uses a numeral.

To me the whole numeral systems are archaic, User ID numbers don't line up when transferring data from hard drives from another machine eg 1000-1005.

The numeral permission system is archaic and requires explicit knowledge to know the difference between a 7 6 and 4. In GUI Immutability is separate when it should be more integrated as a file control. The octal permissions are from another decade and modern platforms have permissions on whether a executible can access the internet, access input devices like camera or microphone, or sensitive data like contacts, pictures, etc...

I think file tagging should be greatly expanded, IDv3 meta data for example was a workaround for the limitations and the core filesystem should have robust enough tagging to make it unnecessary.

I'll be controversial now -- eliminate the . prefix to hide files. Yes I know it had been this way for decades and was grandfathered in as a feature after a bug, that should have been in the filesystem properties like chattr +I and you shouldn't need .hidden indexes to hide files just like windows and osx litters zip files with MDF or inf or whatever (memory is fuzzy from non use).

Some people say "4 character" limit, that needs to go too -- FHS naming structure is confusing and not self evident what it does to people trying to learn who already have IT training. /etc/ having 2 or more bins /bin vs /usr/bin -- 'what does usr mean the new it ponders' 'oh it must mean 'user' I guess'. -- weird stuff like that.

To systemd credit they have no problem being controversial and relentlessly persuing their vision in a practical way, hell I use their stuff hapilly.

I just feel like the run0 thing is a band aid on bigger problems, and AI critique would be very fascinating to make these human interfaces you know... more for us humans :P

If not systemd, maybe the rust people or someone else will be baller enough to try to tackle these funny ackward quirks that have accumulated over the years and straighten it all out.

Not all agree, but I wish it were smaller. I like being able to hold in my hand without developing wrist pain. I know 6.5ish is already on the small side but 6 or 5.5 or a thin profile aspect ratio might be a selling point.

Feels like most phones are in a meh* aspect ratio.

Also it's a great indicator of agreement. The more upvotes the more people may resonate with haveing low interest.

Sometimes I really hate the utility names people come up with.

I would love to see chatgpt rename all the core utils in a way that summarizes their function.

Right, like if I want a tablet in my car I will just get a dash mount arm and throw whatever current gen tablet on it. I don't need it as a part of the car.

Thanks, it restores my faith in our community to get a complement.

I felt like I had finally made it in life where I was sustaining and so I did maybe a dozen donations to software I actually used as a signal of thanks.

I tried to make the amounts at least equal to commercial counterparts or at $100 each since it's enough of an amount a developer will understand the deep appreciation and value others have in their gifted labor and to encourage them to keep up the awesome work.

I probably did at least another 1k that year to specialized Linux FOSS apps that professionals use -- KDE, gimp, krita, inkscape, libreoffice, etc... -- I don't have as much free time to put into bug reports and grinding triaging bugs so I figured material could be a way to help out.

Thanks for listening to me vent. IIUC that mod was later removed 6?m later after a burnout blowup and they unbanned a number of people as per request but I decided not to request being unbanned as I felt that the writing was on the wall and it underscored __ the need __ for Linux Forums and Communities to not be controlled by any one person, niche group, or commercial interest. Thus I made my avatar a picture of Mastodon on a 100k karma profile over 10 years of Linux and here we are in the future hopefully in a new place where we can be free and live by the principles of libre and FOSs to share and help each other.

In any case, sincerely thank you for being courageous and restoring my faith that there are people out there that share my values and digital love for open source. Cheers :)

I wish I had this on Xbox Live decades ago. Steam MVP.