I would try posting the question. If there’s a community anywhere that can help or point you in the right direction it’s pixls. There are linux graphics app developers on the forum.

Of course it isn’t. All it’s doing is moving the goalpoasts and storing up problems externally that will come back to bite a future government.

What I came back to find out…

Yeah or change VPN location. It’s a fairly standard forum site.

I would suggest also posting this on discuss.pixls.us - there are some very knowledgeable people there.

I want to read your short story - can you post it here or post a link to it where it hasn’t been censored? DM is fine if you don’t want to post it publicly.

The premise sounds really intriguing and I also want to read it as an act of solidarity.

It’s like being in a night club when they turn off the music and turn on the lights and you realise you’ve been dancing next to an eight year-old all night.

Follow hashtags and get stuck in to some conversations. It’s quite rewarding.

And well done avoiding instagram. I thought it was now just a graveyard for deluded millennial aspiration but apparently not!

I prefer stories of random white dudes being in places they had no business being in because they went from their childhood home in the countryside to the big city, met the wrong people while they were drunk and woke up there with sunburn and knowledge of a great number of sea shanties.

This comment is art.

Have bookmarked.

Why have we had to live without an open source version for so long?

It used to be possible to live and work in much of the UK without a car. Where I live it is now basically impossible, unless you have a remote job, get food delivered and completely withdraw from society.

I would say that it probably is but if it turns out to be cultural then that would be very interesting.

YMMV but I’ve found the GIMP UI to be pretty much on a par with photoshop after having learnt the UI and learnt/modified the keyboard shortcuts. Some things are in fact better in GIMP, like panning and zooming. I’ve transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware but still use photoshop at a workplace.

If photoshop was open source then I think there would be a conversation to be had but I wouldn’t pay for it now that I’m used to GIMP.

When you’re not bad enough in the present and future and need to complete the set.

Feasebal is my new favourite word.

Thank you fine sir.

GIMP is well worth getting used to, especially now we are post 3.0 with a proper non-destructive workflow for filters/effects. I had always found it confusing to learn, having the Photoshop UI fossilised into my neural pathways, but what unlocked it for me was following an online GIMP course for 2/3 hours, which amounted to far less time than I had formerly spent cracking photoshop or working to pay for it.

Some great plugins are coming out now too. The Batcher plugin in particular makes GIMP (and GMIC by extension) extremely powerful for automation.

Good times.

Libreoffice is dope af.

“Make America Irrelevant Again”

Good idea for an app. Linux especially would benefit from more high quality apps aimed at less-technical users.

Would be good to include audio-only conversion too.