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Drummyralf ,

I have the OG 46 mm (since its launch) and still charge it only about every 3 days.

Mostly use it to track steps, check time (obviously) and skip songs on my phone.

Drummyralf ,

I like that RTFM can also stand for Read The Fucking Manpage.

Drummyralf ,

How is the performance on a VM? I use Windows for VR and Musicproduction. Like 10%, 20% performance dip?

Drummyralf ,

Yeah, I just upgrades my CPU, and even on my old one everything worked fine.

One more question though: why go the VM route instead of dualbooting? I guess mostly so you still have acces to all Linux stuff while using Windows?

Drummyralf ,

We have tests done in our schools in the Netherlands right now and the early results are that it has a positive effect. Students talk to eachother more, say they have more fun during breaks. Also that they can concentrate better on their schoolwork.

Drummyralf ,

It goes to the question "geek?" Which then can be answered as "hobbyist" or "yes", but the half circle makes it weird. That's how I read it, but if you choose hobbyist you indeed get into an argument of "WHAT AM I?"

Edit: oh, the yes and no are UNDER the question if you've used Linux. The No on the left comes from another branch. Pfff, just woke up, now I even see you said exactly that. I need coffee....

Drummyralf ,

Or third leg ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°).

Drummyralf ,

That is one hell of a gaslight.

Drummyralf ,

I just stuck a few ubiquity access points all around the house. Works great, office-grade stuff.

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The idea is that Heathcliff is an unnecessary addition to the comic, and that they still work without him.

Drummyralf , (edited )

If you're the creator: I'll (ironically) try to explain why. The text itself has almost no joke, no (strong) punchline. The biggest joke is "Dinosaurs discussing economics while rampaging", which is ridiculous(thus the joke). There are some text jokes, but they don't stand out in the dry matter that's being discussed.

Due to the denseness of the topic being discussed, it feels more akin to reading a wiki article than a comic. The text distracts from the ridiculousness (or possibly a joke about housing? I dunno?). The text becomes the focus, thus that text is being discussed rather than the joke.

/this is the end of my ted talk about jokes I actually don't know much about.

Drummyralf ,

Or, like, use bitwarden or something to do it for you.

Drummyralf ,

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.

Drummyralf , (edited )

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.

Drummyralf ,

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?

Drummyralf ,

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.

Drummyralf ,

I really, REALLY hope canva won't screw up affinity.

Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...

Drummyralf ,

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

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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?

Drummyralf ,

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

Sudo system c. t. l. Disable suiciiiiiiiiiiiiiide

Drummyralf ,

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.

Drummyralf ,

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.

Drummyralf ,

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

Drummyralf ,

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

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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.

Drummyralf ,

Working title: the magic of friendship.

Drummyralf ,

Actually, red is green, green is red. Blue is yellow, yellow is blue, and fuck why is everything monochrome.

iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called "Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers" (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

Drummyralf ,

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!"

Drummyralf , (edited )

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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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. *

Drummyralf ,

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

Drummyralf ,

This is an answer?

Drummyralf ,

I want a spinny as a pet now. Sounds cute.

Drummyralf ,

Wait, the Dutch Optimel brand doesn't have attached caps. I think? Or I just mindlessly rip the caps off so they are loose? It doesn't make any sense to have those be attached with an angle like that.

Drummyralf ,

An Inuit is seeing the painting as a cat/tiger in the snow. The other two see it as a tiger on a white background.

Drummyralf ,

Ah, welp, I guess I didn't get the the comic either then. Didn't know about the Garfield thing.

Drummyralf ,

Never heard of Heathcliff, and after googling I still didn't recognize it. Maybe an American thing?

Looking at some other comments, was there some beaf with Heathcliff and Garfield or something?

Drummyralf ,

Haha thank you!

How to turn an average comic into something greater. Not because the new version was better (it is worse), but because of the confusion and discussion it sparked 😜

Drummyralf ,

So for all people that are on the fence about switching to Linux: Here's a sort of review and starter guide from a guy who switched to Mint about 4 weeks ago.

Are you someone who mostly plays non-competetive games (games without anticheat) and browse the web? You'll probably have a hassle free life on Linux. Steam's Proton layer does a lot of heavily lifting. Even if games are not officially supported. Turn the compatability on in the steam settings.

If you play VR or competetive games, it's a different story.
VR is dependant on the headset. I unfortunately have all Oculus Headsets, which there is no good controller support for right now from the open source community.
Anticheat simply doesnt work on Linux.

Design software
From what I've read, the affinity suite now can be used through Wine (a program that lets you use windows apps on Linux)
However, from my time with Wine, it is hit and miss. One update from either the application or Wine can break everything. So it is not reliable, unless you freeze all updates from both the application and Wine. Wine can be great (working out of the box) but also the biggest pain in the ass with hours of debugging. Stay away if you dislike troubleshooting.

Inkscape can be an alternative to Illustrator if you don't do heavy design work.

I haven't touched Gimp for about 6 years (used to be my main editor) but when I switched to photoshop it qas no competition. Don't know what the state of Gimp is now, will try it over the coming year.

music software
Cubase or any of steinbergs plugins outright will not work on Linux (unfortunately my main DAW)
However, I will probably switch to Bitwig (native Linux), which looks really promising. I got some VSTs working through Wine (all arturia stuff works great) but have had hours of troubleshooting without luck with others.
Use Yabridge as a vstlink for windows VSTs.
If you're a professional musician with thousands of dollars in plugins, I'd be hestitant to switch to Linux. You'll be dependant on Wine a lot, which is kind of a pain to rely on for professional use.

overall tips
Might be a bit controversial, but if you're a novice: don't dump all the solutions you find online in your terminal. Actually, try to use the machine as much as possible like you normally would on Windows, unless you want to do Terminal stuff. If you dislike terminals, you'll only be frustrated by all the terminal advice people give you, which might even break stuff on your machine.

Try to download .deb packages from the official sources.++ Software center on Mint is great, but will moatly be outdated or flatpacks. Flatpacks can work, but I've had many issues with permissions and flatpacks (like an arduino flatpack that didn't give permission to use the USB port....)

Welp, I'm out of time, so I'll just randomly stop my reviewish/comment here

Drummyralf ,

I would say: don't rely on Wine if you're dependent on the programs it runs somehow. If you don't want to spend hours troubleshooting programs, then accept your losses.

After days of messing about getting music VSTs to work, I decided to stop troubleshooting any error I have within Wine. If a program works with Wine straight away: lucky me! If something doesn't work: I count my loss and accept I won't be able to use that program on Linux for now.

And obviously, don't install and run andom programs that you wouldn't install on Windows either. But that's just common sense.

Drummyralf ,

Good to know!

Drummyralf ,

Thanks for the heads up about flatpaks! I'll look into it.

I believe debs are installed through my Software Manager ? When I said "get debs from official source" I meant that bigger software like Godot, Steam, Handbrake etc I prefer to download from their official website. Most stuff in software managers are several versions behind.

I agree that you shouldn't be downloading random debs for some small apps made by a random person, for obvious security reasons.

Drummyralf ,

Haha agreed.

Drummyralf ,

I got my info from the Affinity Forum

No first hand experience. However, with my short time with Wine, I'm hestitant to rely on it. Any update from either Wine or the software it's running could break things. Cool if it works, but not something I'd want to bet my work on.

Drummyralf ,

I think for that usecase, Lutris might help. It is basically Wine for games, where it tries to find the right settings for your specific games. If the Epic store installs at all, that is.

But I've commented this a few times now: Wine is... very hit and miss and might not be worth your time.

Drummyralf ,

I feel you man. I've finally used Cubase enough to get proficiently fast at editing stuff, and I can't get it to work on Mint. It is quite the dilemma.
From what I've seen from Bitwig, I still might switch though. It looks a lot like Ableton, but I much prefer Bitwig's UI. And my most used plugins (arturia stuff) happens to run without any hassle on Wine (for now).

Still, I'll probably keep dual booting for a while. I have so many Cubase projects backed up that I don't feel like converting all to Bitwig projects.

Drummyralf ,

Yes, I think a minority group of IT enthousiasts will be pushed towards Linux. But for a lot of average users, it is way too much of a hassle, unless the ONLY thing they do is browse the web.

In my 4 weeks with Mint, I encountered:
-Complete system freezes from plugging in USB to USB hubs.
-Bluetooth not working (fix was updating to a newer Kernel... ok... why is that kernel not standard when bluetooth is broken on the older kernels?)
-Random inconsistant UI scaling issues when working with two monitors (and even on the same monitor)
-permission issues when instaling flatpacks from the software manager (let's disable USB permission for arduino... yeah... that's silly)

I figure all the shit out because I want it to work. But it's not the be-all end-all that people here on Lemmy make it out to be.

Switching an OS is always difficult. In 2006 I switched to Mac for about 6 years. The first few months were pain and agony. After that, it was great. Same with many Windows upgrades. And the same will be true for switching to Linux.

Drummyralf , (edited )

Slightly unrelated, but one of my recommendations would be to buy a VPN for a month and download all the movies instead of ripping DVDs. Unless you care about the extras of course.

I've recently digitized my DVD collection with MakeMKV(best tool for this) and boy is it hit and miss quality wise. Some are very watchable on a 1080p tv, while others look like a pixel mess. And I'm not that much of a purist when it comes to quality. But DVD is 480p (which is watchable) but when the movie is made from a VHS copy (which happened sometimes back then) it is... an unpleasant watching experience

Also, mpeg2(which dvds are encoded in) are huge filesize wise for what quality they offer.
AND mpeg2 is not supported by stuff like a chromecast...so not great.

I, as a European, had double trouble: our PAL dvd movies actually run slightly faster than American dvd's, so most subs found online simply won't synchronize. So that meant ripping the subs, converting them to a sensible format, finding all the spelling mistakes from converting... A pain.

If I'd do it over again, I'd pay 5 bucks for a VPN and download some bluray rips. Even stuff that is deemed low quality by the pirate community (YIFY rips) are better AND 1/4th the size than your DVD rips will ever be.

You could go the ISO route, which preserves the menus. You can open ISO files with Kodi.

Or rip your dvds if you want to make sure it's all legal. You do you 😜

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