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tigerjerusalem

@tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world

Just a bastard roaming around the world

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tigerjerusalem ,

Gimp is a gigantic piece of shit that should never be recommended. Krita is the way, even Photopea is better.

tigerjerusalem ,

Oh,you want arguments? I'll give you arguments:

  • prehistoric interface.
  • the stupid thing don't have CMYK mode, the most basic thing needed if you work with graphics.
  • lack of adjusting layers a.k.a. non-destructive editing.
  • It will lock up and lose your work for apparently no reason. I lost a graphic due to a crash because I made the incredibly challenging action of changing a font. It also cannot handle big files at all.
  • It's so. Fucking. Slow.
  • That stupid, infantile, childish, emotionally stunted name.

There's more but I'm not in the mood of reliving the time I had with this turd.

"Oh but they have X features on the roadmap". Yeah, and today is the year of Linux on desktop. I don't care. I need a functional software now, not in some undisclosed future.

tigerjerusalem ,

Sure, no problem. People get agitaded because it gets recommended over and over again, and gimp is a piece of software that does not deserve this kind of recognition, at all. It should either be completely revamped and get a new name, or completely forgotten in favor of better alternatives like Krita.

tigerjerusalem ,

Companies throw away perfectly good food because if someone ever get sick for eating they will find themselves liable and sued. It's dumb, but that's the game.

tigerjerusalem ,

No, you're the one wiping it wrong. /s

tigerjerusalem ,

Mine doesn't have Car mode anymore, it stopped working a couple of weeks ago.

tigerjerusalem ,

This is hilarious, scrambling to get a golden parachute and live off some trust fund from the sale. The sad part is that they will probably get that.

tigerjerusalem ,

To use Recall, users will need to purchase one of the new "Copilot Plus PCs" powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips, which include the necessary neural processing unit (NPU).

Well, I guess I'm keeping my current notebook for the unforseeable future.

tigerjerusalem ,

IF that's an option and IF it don't turn itself on after an update. Given Microsoft's history I wouldn't trust that. They invested way too much in AI to afford making it easy for the user not to use the feature.

tigerjerusalem ,

Unless there's a "database failure" that would resurface screenshots from your PC on Microsoft's cloud, or anything like that. I mean, its too many lines of code, what if something happened and oops, the local data was uploaded to your Onedrive, my bad, keep using our products, this will never happen again we swear.

The only way to be sure is not having it at all. Remember the CSAM filter Apple wanted to force on iOS? This is as bad as that.

tigerjerusalem ,

Well, I don't care about any company but seeing Samsung take the shot is always refreshing. I wish more companies would be at odds to call bullshit out publicly like that.

tigerjerusalem ,

It's not a "public narrative" when the product is objectively trash. You don't get to have an opinion about a fact like "don't eat plutonium because you will die" and say "oh, I don't think so, it's your narrative".

tigerjerusalem , (edited )

There is NO appeal for this product. We already carry an AI device, it's called a smartphone. We already have an AI device on our bodies, it's called a smartwatch. This thing solves no problem and creates a lot of new ones, like being an annoying tamagotchi that doesn't even bring the pleasure to use it. It's a scam to pocket VC money.

tigerjerusalem ,

This piece of e-waste was DOA before launch. The founders were with their heads too much up their own asses to realize that.

tigerjerusalem ,

The company screwed themselves by hyping a nothing burger. The influencers just helped unaware consumers to not fall for this scam.

tigerjerusalem ,

I used to use and love miniflux, but then they migrated to Golang and PostgreSQL, neither which are supported by my shared hosting (namecheap).

I use Freshrss now.

Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not (arstechnica.com)

Earlier this year, Microsoft added a new key to Windows keyboards for the first time since 1994. Before the news dropped, your mind might’ve raced with the possibilities and potential usefulness of a new addition. However, the button ended up being a Copilot launcher button that doesn’t even work in an innovative way....

tigerjerusalem ,

Holy shit, Star Trek knew. They were trying to warm us.

tigerjerusalem ,

"oh, just switch to Linux"

Oh, just shut up already. On Linux my fingerprint reader doesn't work, my Adobe apps doesn't run, my Concepts app doesn't run. Not everybody works in IT, and many of us actually run apps other than Office ones.

This shit sucks, and I'll support every tool that fixes and neuters Microsoft attacks to the user space because my work apps are there.

tigerjerusalem ,

Because we get the same useless suggestions over and over and over that solves absolutely nothing. If you know about the limitations then don't go around pitching Linux as an universal solution since that's clearly a lie.

tigerjerusalem ,

Finally a decent suggestion. I'll take a look at it, thanks!

tigerjerusalem ,

I'll give you the benefit of doubt instead of calling you a troll, so I'll say this: Stop using your smartphone, right now. Nobody used GPS and people managed to cross oceans. Nobody had mobile phones and people managed to get in touch just fine. Nobody had text apps, they sent letters and used paper to take notes. They went to the bank to see how much money they had on their account. They went to music stores to browse CDs.

So give up you phone, right now, and all the conveniences it gives you. Then ask for a friend to text here after a year and tell me how it was.

tigerjerusalem ,

TV commercials? Honest question, do you even know what is the Adobe Cloud used for? Do you even know who uses it and how it is used? They're not the industry standard for nothing, they're actually really powerful creativity tools with strong collaboration tools. They are not perfect, but they ARE the best. You don't use it, you're out of the industry. It's hard to keep a job with Affinity unless you're freelancing, and it's damn impossible if you rely on crap like GIMP.

Sure, you can put a nail in with a shoe but that doesn't mean the shoe is better than a hammer. Come on.

tigerjerusalem ,

I'm sure the smartphone you're using right now is all under your control with no network access right? 🤦

Seriously, what's up with all those trolls on lemmy?

tigerjerusalem ,

Thanks for the laugh, because your reply clearly shows you have no arguments and decided to attack me on a personal level, all while showing you know absolutely nothing about the creative arts and the industry.

This silly angry discourse of yours? I heard it again and again: how all the work I did and the knowledge I had because I spent so much time learning to grind pigments, to choose the right oils, to know the right water dosage, the right paper, all of it, would be useless because the new big thing arrived: digital art tools. How designers would be obsolete because instead of drawing with pen and paper and big ass tables and rules we would be doing all in a tiny screen, being all processed through a computer.

I lived through it all kid, while you're typing your silly comment in the confort of your room without a single knowledge of the real world. And I'll do it again and again, because I'm not a moron. I know how to draw and to paint for real, and how to draw and how to paint in digital, and I'm using AI to enhance everything beyond what I thought it was possible.

You know nothing, and understand nothing, all while tapping yourself in the back thinking you got a great zinger. Shame.

And don't bother to reply. You're a moron and an imbecile that I already spent too much time replying your stupidity. You're blocked.

tigerjerusalem ,

If that thing was a lightweight, cheap companion to a cellphone with a decent camera I could maybe consider buying it, because I do like some concepts like dealing with single tasks like adding an item to a todo list, playing a song, checking out a qr code or grabbing a video while I'm riding.

The way it is now it's a grandiose piece of crap, too expensive for its own good.

tigerjerusalem ,

+1 for nextdns, it allows me to track all the connection requests and it saves the logs on Swiss.

tigerjerusalem ,

Keaton!

tigerjerusalem ,

Are there even evidence that neuralink is real? All I saw was statements from Musk and its company.

Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV (arstechnica.com)

A patent application from the company spotted by Lowpass describes a system for displaying ads over any device connected over HDMI, a list that could include cable boxes, game consoles, DVD or Blu-ray players, PCs, or even other video streaming devices. Roku filed for the patent in August 2023 and it was published in November...

tigerjerusalem ,

That backlog of books and DVDs in my closet is more and more attractive each day.

tigerjerusalem ,

COURAGE!!

tigerjerusalem ,

COURAGE!!

tigerjerusalem ,

Brown, blue and pink. I was tempted about that dark green pill for a while, but settled for the pink one.

tigerjerusalem ,

Oh, but they tried: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/

For some reason they thought that having their phones snitching on them wouldn't be a good thing. Who knew?

tigerjerusalem ,

Funny how it is, to me the window management of macOS is atrocious and constantly gets in the way — an issue I don't have with Windows 11. In a matter of fact, the window management in windows is awesome.

It's Not Safe to Click Links on X (lifehacker.com)

As noted by security researcher Will Dormann, some posts on X purport to lead to a legitimate website, but actually redirect somewhere else. In Dormann's example, an advertisement posted by a verified X user claims to lead to forbes.com. When Dormann clicks the link, however, it takes him to a different link to open a Telegram...

tigerjerusalem ,

Portuguese, people. X sound like sh in Portuguese. So Xopping, xell, xelter and Xitter. Words in Portuguese where X sounds like sh: xarope, xerife, xícara.

tigerjerusalem ,

"You're all landed gentry! But hey, send some money to me by buying a little stock okay?"

Yeah spez, kindly go fuck yourself.

tigerjerusalem ,

So, exactly like a religion.

tigerjerusalem ,

Religion is about shit that is not real

"Year of Linux on Desktop"

"Better than Windows"

"Linux is easy"

"You never need to use the terminal"

"Everything you need runs on Linux"

"Android IS Linux, therefore is the most popular OS"

Yeah, sounds like religion to me.

tigerjerusalem ,

Talking like a true believer, thank you for making my point.

tigerjerusalem ,

Sure, whatever. I have no horse in this race, I just enjoy watching the meltdown over an OS.

tigerjerusalem ,

Remember kids, don't hesitate to use the "elitism" card when you're loosing an linux argument

I didn't realise it was a competition. BTW, how do someone loose an argument? By making generic points? By making it less specific?

tigerjerusalem ,

Courage. Magic. We think you gonna love it.

tigerjerusalem ,

I have a blog and a gallery on my own domain. I just want a system for people to interact and recommend my blog and photos that isn't WordPress, and that is so damn hard to find. A federated wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff that connects existing sites.

tigerjerusalem ,

Webrings were cool but flawed. I'd like something like tumblr, where you can comment and @ someone, but in a federated system where each would manage their own.

I thought about using Mastodon as a comment system for my blog but the tools to accomplish it are way over my head. I'm not a developer, just someone who happens to know how to install a CMS and to tweak some HTML and CSS.

tigerjerusalem ,

I can think a couple of uses like working on my motorcycle with the service manual floating above it, and getting reference pictures or line art to trace while drawing. In the future maybe having AR features to learn playing guitar or drums. All niche cases, and certainly not worth 3500 for it.

tigerjerusalem ,

My guess is that he wants to put his hands on the tech behind OpenAI success to somehow use it on his Robotaxis thing.

tigerjerusalem ,

I have so many questions...

tigerjerusalem ,

An ARM Galaxy Book 360 with S-pen running Photoshop and Illustrator while running relatively cold. I would buy that in an instant

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