so… how do you like openSuSE after 3 years of fedora?

because of course they are

the alt-right movement is like an abusive relationship, made up of a bunch of very insecure people constantly seeking approval from an abuser who doles it out with an equal amount of degradation, keeping them confused and isolated enough that they have no choice but to keep coming back because - after having driven everyone else away with their hateful rhetoric - the abusive alt-right is now their only source of “community” at all.

it’s a cult.

More thorough video explanation from The Alt-Right Playbook: Endnote 4: How the Alt-Right is Like an Abusive Relationship (live)

Birdsite —> Ex-Birdsite for me

It’s been a while since I’ve used Ubuntu. What happened?

oh, hai guys

it asked me to create an account when I started up the app, then claimed I “wasn’t on the list” then had me sign up for a wait list.

yet another web browser that promises the world and delivers… nothing.

deleted.

oh, look, musk made yet another stupid, impulsive decision that could have disastrous, short- and long-term consequences for twitter er… “x”

Gibson was correct about much of our education system and Galileo was certainly right about the consequences of overvaluing mediocre wit that merely happened to well-timed. what neither of them had to content with, however, was the internet and how social media can combine the inability to reason critically and mediocre wit with crippling insecurities and anti-social personalities to what should be predictable results.

a least Gibson understood that a technocratic future didn’t imply that people’s lives would necessarily improve.

watching that dude pull out the plastic cylinder with that spindle of platters that probably had a storage capacity of maybe 30MB while the narrator brags about the transfer speed of a blazing 1.5MB/s… awww…

Piped link

wizardry!

link to post on mastodon

link to post on mastodon

the quidditch metaphor is particularly apt. in the game, while the seekers are chasing the golden snitch (which is mostly separate from the main game), the rest of the players - the chasers and the beaters - are busy trying to score goals by getting the quaffle through the rings at each end of the pitch. and (as we read in the books) since quidditch games can last days or even weeks, catching the snitch doesn’t necessarily guarantee a win as, during that time, the opposing team may have scored enough points to offer the snitch’s 150-point value.

and, while the seekers represent billionaire CEOs like musk, the beaters and seekers scoring goals represent the managers and laborers trying to make a profit.

i used Atom for years until they suddenly stopped development. Pulsar is a fork of that project.

i use it for low-level code editing like bash scripts, js, and markdown document editing. some json and html.

I’ve used Photoshop for 30 years and have never - not once - paid for it.

pay for it, HA!

But just because I have the option of running Photoshop doesn’t mean I’m not allowed to have an opinion on GiMP, lmao. Enough with the gatekeeping.

yeah, having 30 years of Photoshop experience and then being told I have to learn a whole new tool that looks and works completely differently? it took a very long time to become a master of this one tool. now I have to completely re-learn and re-master a new one?

no thanks.

Davinci Resolve originally ran on SGI and Sun graphic workstations, which ran IRIX and SOLARIS respectively, both System V UNIX-based OSs. It’s pretty cool that they’ve maintained *nix-based support all of these decades.