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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • I’m a huge Krita fan! But like others I mostly use it for the drawing and painting.

    How is it as an alternative to GIMP? (Which I use for simple cut and pastes and that kinda thing.) I haven’t actually been able to figure out where the wall is that says “No, use GIMP for this.”

    Does GIMP maybe have better filters and layer operations and that kinda thing maybe…?



  • LOL isn’t that the truth. I wanted my desktop to not bother chugging watts through my 3090 and generating excess heat when barely KDE Plasma and a browser is running, but trying to set up GPU offload just left me with a blank terminal screen.

    Thank God for the geniuses who implemented Snapper rollbacks in OpenSUSE! Otherwise, the Nvidia drivers in the repos work fine and I’m scared to touch them…



  • People can do whatever they like, and heck I find CLI intimidating sometimes, but I’m always learning something new a little bit at a time.

    I’m tired of seeing it in every field of interest that has any kind of payoff, whether art or FOSS.

    “I’m [(almost always) a guy] who (maybe has kids and) has a job. I stopped learning anything after I got my job-paper / degree / highschool diploma. I shouldn’t have to learn anything anymore. I am happy to shell out disposable sad-salary-man money (and maybe my soul idk) to any mega-corp that offers me a “create desired outcome button” without me having to think too much. It’s [current year]! I shouldn’t have to think anymore! Therefore Linux is super behind and only for nerds and I desire its benefits so much that I leave this complaint anywhere these folks gather so they know what I deserve.”

    Agh. I gotta go before this rant gets too long lol









  • One possibility could be because in conventional “computer counting” in (most) coding languages, it starts at zero. Like if I make an array of things

    [monke, chimp, peanut]

    monke would be [0]

    chimp would be[1]

    peanut would be [2]

    Once I learned about this concept I started naming enumerated things from 0 usually just to keep a kind of consistency. Maybe I think if it’s a habit, I won’t make those mistakes as often with code. I dunno. :p





  • Great take. But you know the real sneaky one that trips you up? File system.

    I wouldn’t call myself a beginner, but every time I install a Linux system seriously I see those filesystem choices and have to dig through volumes of turbo-nerd debates on super fine intricacies between them, usually debating their merits in super high-risk critical contexts.

    I still don’t come away with knowing which one will be best for me long-term in a practical sense.

    As well as tons of “It ruined my whole system” or “Wrote my SSD to death” FUD that is usually outdated but nevertheless persists.

    Honestly nowadays I just happily throw BTRFS on there because it’s included on the install and allows snapshots and rollbacks. EZPZ.

    For everything else, EXT4, and for OS-shared storage, NTFS.

    But it took AGES to arrive to this conclusion. Beginners will have their heads spun at this choice, guaranteed. It’s frustrating.