hperrin , vor einem Monat

I wrote an email service called Port87, and I did it on a really low end laptop (an Ideapad 3 from 2021) to make sure that it works well, even on a potato.

hperrin , vor einem Monat

Please tell me that’s not real. I don’t want him being a Linux fan boy. That would ruin the Linux community.

hperrin , vor einem Monat

I thought it went, “Even a blind clock finds a nut twice a day.”

hperrin , vor einem Monat

It looks like this was asked in a GIMP forum, so I’m not really surprised at the backlash. It’s super rude to ask that in that forum. Like, they shouldn’t be rude back, but I understand why they were.

hperrin , vor einem Monat

It would be like going into a Microsoft forum and asking about alternatives to Windows. That’s obviously not the right place to do it. They should ask this in a general digital photography forum, or a general open source forum.

They also called GIMP an “epic POS” in their comment.

hperrin , vor einem Monat

Because those people are there (presumably) to help people use GIMP. If you read the guy’s full comment, they were obviously there to take a shit on GIMP. And that’s fine, but maybe don’t do it to a whole bunch of people who have volunteered their time to help other people with it.

I disagree that this is the best group to ask about alternatives. These are GIMP people. If you want them to recommend something, they’re clearly going to recommend GIMP. A much better place to ask this question (assuming they weren’t just trying to shit on GIMP) would be a general digital photography forum, or an open source forum. A place where people use a wide variety of programs.

hperrin , vor einem Monat (Bearbeitet vor einem Monat)

Also it’s funny that there is a dropdown with font previews in GIMP, despite this guy’s statement. Admittedly, it’s in an odd place (on the left of the font input box, rather than on the right, and doesn’t have a dropdown icon, but a font preview), but it’s there. It took me three clicks to find it.

I just tried it out. Picked a font I liked, right clicked the text, selected Filters -> Light and Shadow -> Drop Shadow, set offsets and blur to zero, grow to 10, opacity to 1, and boom, I had text with a stroke effect. I’m not sure why this guy had so much trouble. Maybe it’s cause I come from a CSS background, and that’s exactly how you would add a stroke effect in CSS.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c8de393c-57b7-4e78-b8e7-5921dbedc4e9.png

Took me all of two minutes to make that, and I’m not a GIMP wizard.

hperrin , vor einem Monat

I feel like it would be helpful to include the text of their post rather than just the title:

TL;DR Sorry if this is wrong group. GIMP = Epic POS. Do not use. Please recommend a decent alternative. Don't waste your time with GIMP help because I am done.

I hope the mods or the bots don't kill this post right away. It's a serious and legitimate question from a UX designer with several decades of experience, who doesn't want anyone else to suffer what I have. I didn't know where else to post it, so I'm trying here as a first-timer. I apologize if this is not in the spirit of the group.

I quit Adobe, can't afford the price any more (long story). I thought GIMP could replace Photoshop. But the user interface is horrible, and the app is full o' bugs.

Here's the straw that broke the camel's back.

I tried to make a meme. The font selection overlay was a tiny, pathetic, hard to read joke. Not even a font selection dropdown, let alone one that provided previews with every line item like PS does. Deep breath, continue. I type "Impact". Red text. I backspaced and typed "Im". All I got was Impact Condensed. (Yes, I have Impact, and have used it in PS). So I picked it anyway. Then I tried to find the outline font feature. In Photoshop, it's a simple "choose stroke" feature. GIMP? Hello?

I want to the Web to find a tutorial where it pointed out the feature. No luck. Searched again to find a workaround / hack. Mostly crap. Found one that was current and seemed decent. Followed it carefully. GIMP crashed.

While I appreciate the thoughts of anyone who may be compelled to point out a simple workaround or feature that I missed, don't bother. This is the last of many dozens of problems I have wasted my time working around while suffering many crashes, and I already uninstalled it.

So. Recommendations?

https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/110opcc/can_anyone_recommend_a_suitable_replacement_for/?rdt=47111

I think it’s also worth giving the correction that there is a font selection dropdown with previews in GIMP. It’s to the left of the font input box.

hperrin , vor einem Monat

Wouldn’t know. Never happened. 😎

..

Because.. I’ve never talked to a girl.

hperrin , vor einem Monat

That is definitely your fault for letting randos @everyone in your server.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

I’m really happy that my new Framework laptop’s fingerprint reader worked perfectly out of the box.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

It’s not successful though. Like, maybe if your measure of success is that it’s usable, sure. But no other OSes have adopted it. Not even Ubuntu’s downstream OSes like Mint or Pop_OS!.

Users don’t like it, vendors don’t like it, other OS maintainers don’t like it. I’m not sure why that would be considered successful.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

It look me about two hours to realize that snap was the problem when I was trying to run Mastodon in a Docker container. That was the last straw before I moved to Fedora.

Snap can’t read anything outside of the /home directory, and there’s no way to fix that except changing the source code and recompiling it.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

Don’t forget Mir!

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten (Bearbeitet vor 2 Monaten)

There are 2 possibilities:

The battery is bad.

• Replace it.

The battery is not calibrated.

• Get it down to where the OS turns it off.
• Turn it back on, and go into the BIOS and leave it on, unplugged. This will prevent the OS from turning the machine off so the battery can completely discharge.
• Let the battery completely drain until the machine shuts off and won’t turn on again. If this step lasts several hours (like 3 or more hours), it’s likely this procedure will work. The longer it takes, the better the result will be. If it lasts less than 1 hour, this procedure won’t work.
• Plug it in and leave it off.
• Leave it plugged in until it completely charges. Probably around 8 hours to be safe.
• After that, turn it on and check your battery health.
• It should now work again if the battery itself isn’t bad.

Note: this procedure permanently reduces the capacity of the battery, so it should only be done as a last resort before just replacing the battery.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

Wayland is X11’s little brother.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

Steven Crowder is dumb enough to think that.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

inodes can be files or directories though.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

Wait until you figure out that your DE is just a glorified launcher, and that it was launched by systemd.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

I swear the Outlook and Teams groups at Microsoft are competing for worst product ever. And the Windows group was like, “hold our beer.”

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

It could also be stored in the registry.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

What system wide software stores their configs in anything but /etc? Data, sure, but not configs.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

Nginx’ default config location is

/etc/nginx/

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

I don’t know what Tenable and Nessus are. I’m guess you have to install them from outside the package manager or build them from source, in which case, yeah, using /opt for config would be acceptable.

Docker’s config file is located at:

/etc/docker/daemon.json

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

He built his own version of BSD.

hperrin , vor 2 Monaten

I don’t know why anyone would bait on Lemmy. There’s not really an incentive to do so.

hperrin , vor 3 Monaten

sudo shred ./truth.txt

hperrin , vor 3 Monaten

You can’t move anything there, it’s a “character special file” that can’t be deleted. If you pipe something there, it does nothing. (As opposed to something like /dev/stdin, that prints what you pipe to it on stdin.) Character special files act kind of like named pipes, except they’re handled by the kernel on one side. They’re raw device files.

hperrin , vor 3 Monaten

Just try it. I’m literally telling you the truth. It is not a drive, and you cannot move files to it. It doesn’t have a file system, and you can’t create one on it. It cannot be mounted like a drive. Drives are block special files, and /dev/null is a character special file, not a block special file.

hperrin , vor 3 Monaten

Fun fact: when you reply to a noreply email address, your email is rerouted to the No Reply Email Center (NREC) in New York, where it’s printed out and shredded to make confetti. Every year, Macy’s buys the vast majority of this confetti to use in their Thanksgiving parade. If everyone stopped doing that, they’d run out of confetti.

hperrin , vor 3 Monaten

School shootings aren’t a gang problem, and school shootings are way more common in the US than any other developed country.

hperrin , vor 5 Monaten

Pull it back out, read it, then throw it away again. That way in five minutes when it’s time for the next step, you can repeat.

hperrin , vor 5 Monaten

I’m just sitting here patiently waiting for hexagonal displays.