Either slices cut in half or diced and the peanuts whole, in separate dishes. A half mouthful of peanuts followed by a half mouthful of tomato. Never mix the two together before eating! I prefer to use a spoon.

Peachy. Sounds like there’s nothing to worry about then (from a user POV).

It’s bad because it’s full-featured?

I find it great and in fact I prefer some things to photoshop, like the default keyboard shortcuts, saves as a project file, better filters, amazing plugins, full control over preferences and scriptability. I also prefer the foreground select tool and unified transform tool. There are a few things that PS does better though, like its warp tool and custom print settings, plus obviously nondestructive editing (coming in next GIMP release). People shit on GIMP way more than it deserves. I put it down to a) sunk costs in learning Photoshop b) slow development in the past and c) groupthink/fashionable.

If you’re doing serious printing you need to convert to the printer profile before printing anyway.

I find the UI completely fine. But I think a lot of people expect it to be a perfect and direct clone of photoshop that you don’t have to pay for, rather than its own piece of software and are consequently upset when they have to learn how to use it. People forget that they had to learn how to use photoshop as well.

Like you, I’ve asked people to give a specific example of something that is clearly bad about GIMP and either don’t get a proper answer, or they name something from an ancient version.

I’ve installed it from F-droid but still. Fuck google. They really do need breaking up.

I heavily rely on Syncthing. Does anyone know what the outlook is for Syncthing-fork, or what the likelihood is of someone taking on maintenance of this version?

I did it on a humble user account using GNOME disks. Select the USB stick and choose restore image in the menu at the top right.

Fresh tomato and dry roasted peanuts.

Actually I might try it on someone …

What you are saying is technically true. Humans are keeping numbers of animals down by culling them. But humans are also keeping numbers of animals up to make money from them. There would be no bovine TB if people weren’t breeding millions of cows, keeping them in confined spaces and transporting them all over the place.

Like I keep saying: this continues to be about avoiding the root cause of bovine TB, which is factory farming.

There is also a vaccine for cattle but DEFRA won’t approve its use in this country.

Yeah, because if Trumps causes a massive disaster or simply undermines regulation they are the ones who are in a prime position to buy everything up. Trump is not a serious authoritarian and control freak like Putin who is a threat to everyone within reach. He is a liability to the status quo. Whether you like it in its current state or not, any change to the system is an opportunity to make money. Trump is the most likely candidate to change the system - by fucking it up most likely - so they back him.

They are betting against everything except themselves.

That sounds cool. I haven’t tried looking at it that way.

Man I think it’s already done, and been done for a long time, without AI. So much of who we are now is based on and informed by what we’ve read and watched online. It’s our been our dominant frame of reference, language and value system for quite a while. We are the AI.

While I agree that it makes Mastodon less entertaining I also think that it makes it a lot more fair, representative and trustworthy as a lens through which to observe & participate in social discourse and share information and opinions. That in itself will probably mean that it remains less popular but I think it’s also what makes it more valuable IMO. We need to calm down from the urgency of the digital dopamine cycle, for many reasons. If social media is a truly human media then it should be boring at times because that is a human reality that we are adapted to.

“First they came for the coconuts and I said nothing…”

Wearing boxer shorts?

Where were his Thomas The Tank Engine pyjamas?!

Seriously though; while the boys at state school were a lot harder, if a posh kid finally lost it it was always something extremely psychotic like this.

America might be the superpower but Europe decides when it’s time to have a world war.

Yeah, Scribus has come up a lot when I’ve been looking into FOSS & Linux printing workflows. I will give it a proper look! Thanks :)