AstralPath

joined 1 year ago
[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's like asking someone to make you a sandwich and then stipulating what you want on the sandwich then, once the sandwich is on a plate in front of you, you proudly exclaim "Wow, I'm quite the chef, aren't I?"

The sandwich maker in this case is just not a person, it's a computer.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I kinda get you, but ultimately the design of the printed materials had to be created by someone. Creation is the key in all of this.

In this comparison, ideally that creator is the person printing the materials. There's a disconnect if someone just downloaded the CAD files and printed it up then claimed 100% ownership of the creation credit.

I don't see anything wrong with someone designing all the pieces in CAD, which is an artform in itself IMO, printing them and proudly wearing them. Its just a different tool. You use hand tools, they used digital tools.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

But at the end of the day, the only action they're taking to capture the art is they press a button.

Wut? Are you serious? You're just going to boil down an entire artform to that? That's an unbelievably reductive opinion.

Anyone can take a photo, sure but making art via photography is incredibly complex. I'm not a photographer at all and even I can understand that. It's the photographer's tastes and years of learning and practice that ultimately creates an impactful photo. You must think playing drums is just hitting tubes with plastic lids with sticks then, right?

I struggle to believe that you have put any thought into this opinion of yours.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't underestimate him. He's shown he's a spoiled brat, but he's not shown that he's incapable of elaborate and spiteful plots to get his way.

A smart decision in his eyes might be a dumb one in ours but that doesn't mean he's actually stupid.

Writing him off as an idiot is a one way ticket to being blindsided while you're distracted by something else.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

A lot of sites? Or more like just a few? Personally, the ratio of working vs broken sites is like 100 to 1 and when a site is broken, its usually one of those shit pile SEO listicle sites or some absolute trash heap of ads. Every time I've disabled the protections I've regretted it.

A lot of the web is useless trash nowadays and Librewolf has done a good job of filtering that for me.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

My opinion is that the only ones insane are those with nothing better to do than complain about an art piece.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Already uninstalled. I'll never buy another EA title.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That depends on your use case for desktop linux of course. For me, yabridge is the tool I needed to run VSTs on Linux. Its CLI only as far as I know.

Don't get me wrong; I'm not afraid of the CLI. Its just some tools are assuming the end user is a server admin or someone with deeper than the upper crust knowledge of how Linux works.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 42 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The mistake is the assumption of a certain level of end user knowledge.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 92 points 3 months ago (13 children)

Honestly, as a newbie to Linux I think the ratio of well documented processes vs. "draw the rest of the fucking owl" is too damn high.

The rule seems to be that CLI familiarity is treated as though its self-evident. The exception is a ground-up documented process with no assumptions of end user knowledge.

If that could be resolved I think it would make the Linux desktop much more appealing to wider demographics.

That said, I'm proud to say that I've migrated my entire home studio over to linux and have not nuked my system yet. Yet... Fortunately I have backups set up.

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 months ago

A clutch? What's that? /s

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 56 points 3 months ago (24 children)

Have you never gone swimming? Have you never noticed your shrink wrapped junk the second you step out of the pool? Lmao

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