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  • toxic help forum

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  • I've used Gimp all through my teenage years. And I used it a LOT. It was quite a difficult transition to Photoshop (which my workplace uses). But once I got the hang of photoshop, I realized how convoluted Gimp really is.

    Half the time spent in Gimp is making backups before making an edit. A third of your layers will be backup layers in case you change your mind about a design decision. The whole design process is super inflexible and therefor kills creativity.

    Want to use an effect like gaussian blur or drop shadow? Make sure you backup your layer! Want to edit text after you stretched it all out? I hope you made a backup of that layer! Want to work with large files with many layers? You better hit ctrl S after every edit, because the program just might crash on you if you make a difficult selection!

    To be fair, I haven't used much Gimp since 2.8, so if stuff is different now: awesome! And I admire all volunteers that work to make stuff better. But for now, I'll stay away from it if I need to do heavy editing.

  • toxic help forum

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  • I always wondered if I could contribute/volunteer to a FOSS somehow with some UIX stuff, but I don't even know where to start. Would you just draw a concept ui for the team to work out or something?

    Not that I'm great at it, but man, we gotta start somewhere, right?

  • Wait what, you don't have a COVEN?

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  • Working title: the magic of friendship.

  • toxic help forum

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  • Yes exactly. I used Gimp extensively (i think 2.8?) back in the day, and especially text was a pain to work with. If you rotated or resized text, you couldn't change what the text said anymore.

    Another example is making a layer grayscale. In gimp it would make the whole layer grayscale without any way to revert it. In Photoshop it sort of is like an extra "layer" on top of your colored layer that you can turn on and off, making it "non-destructive"

    Nowadays I mainly use Illustrator for work, so I could indeed probably give Inscape a good try. But sometimes you just need to work with pixels and gimps destructive workflow is just a dealbreaker for me. Still, it's impressive that the team got it so far, and I hope one day it will do a Blender and become the powehouse it deserves to be.

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  • The biggest revelation for me when I switched to Photoshop for work about 4 years ago is that non-destructive editing is sooooo much nicer.

    I always had dozens of "backup" layers in my years with Gimp just in case I messed something up. I was always cautious about the order in which you had to do things. I was amazed with photoshop at the fact that you could edit text after warping, gradient coloring and outlining it. Saved so much hassle.

    I read non-destructive is in the pipelines for Gimp, and that would finally make it start become a viable alternative again.

  • Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations

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  • That's the thing though... how could you investigate something (which costs time, thus money) without letting someone pay for it? Would you suggest that alleged victims should pay for the investigation instead?

    What construction would be reasonable for you to investigate wrongdoings?

  • Wait what, you don't have a COVEN?

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  • And what about the rights of the muggles that do streetmagic, illusionists, magicians and slight-of-hand masters? They can sort of bring some magic to the table.

  • Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations

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  • How would you suggest a firm to investigate wrongdoings other than asking a third party to do it?

  • systemctl enable chop.suey

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  • I read the first part in the singing voice of Chop Suey

    Sudo system c. t. l. Disable suiciiiiiiiiiiiiiide

  • People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

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  • If you'd buy the cheapest of the cheapest, you'll probably get terrible performance. So that sort of works.

  • Wait what, you don't have a COVEN?

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  • Druids, mages, sages, shamans, that one weird aunt.

  • On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

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  • Hmm, maybe I've learned the meaning wrong. English isn't my first language :)

  • On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

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  • My point is that checkers actually still is very mich complex. Tictactoe is not and every board position can reasonably be managed by a human.

    With checkers, that is unfeasable. That's why I am of the opinion that checkers is unfairly treated as "the simple game" when for humans it is far from simple.

  • On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

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  • On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

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  • It really is an insult for checkers as a game. It is a common misconception that it's simple. The game has surprising amount of depth, and the saying "x is playing chess while y is playing checkers" should really die.

    X is playing chess while Y is playing tictactoe would be a better analogy.

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    iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers'

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  • If the operating system doesn't matter (like in this article and in most conversations), I just say: smartphones (or phones). If the operating system matters, I mention the operating system (android or iOS) once and then just call it phone/smartphone. Or Android phone. Never called multiple android phones "Androids" though.

    I dont call two Microsoft pc's "two Microsofts" either.

    But today I learned that it is apparantly normal to call it Androids. I really never encountered the term before.

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    iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers'

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  • Androids? Is that the new term for Android phones?

    For a moment I thought people had an android at home that would shout "DANGER, TRACKER!"

  • Lighthouse keeper [Extra Fabulous Comics]

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  • This is an answer?

  • Should I start worrying about my job?

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  • That's what a bot would say!!!!!

    *And so the humans fought the war that is now known as "the great internet war". It was during this time that the robots took over the planet earth. *