earth_walker

joined 9 months ago
[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

spectra.video is good, I've been on there for like a year. The admin is active on fedi and keeps the instance updated.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

The thing is Photoshop does a lot of different stuff, like photo manipulation, painting, and pixel art. But it's not really the best at anything besides photo manipulation probably. So it depends on what you want to do with it.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Been using Inkscape for about 15 years, probably the most enjoyable software I've ever used!

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Krita is good for illustrating and painting

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This is exactly why I'm also not that interested in Bluesky. It's not decentralized in a way that makes it resilient to a Musk-style takeover.

PDSs are cool, Mastodon can learn something from Bluesky's tech stack. But Mastodon made the right choices from the beginning to be decentralized for resiliency.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

You gotta clean it off a little sooner after watching porn

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Switched my parents from an iMac to an old Dell Optiplex running Elementary OS. It worked pretty well but there were some glitches with Pantheon DE and OS version upgrades required a reinstall, so I switched them to Fedora after a couple years. It's easier for me to support because I run Fedora on my laptop. Everyone's happy now. There is always some amount of tech support to do but lately it has been very low. I even helped my dad upgrade the RAM over the phone once, that was fun.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Make sure to check if it actually ran from the cron job, cron is a finnicky tool

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I use Borg Backup, automated with a bash script that Borg provides. A cron job runs the script at the desired frequency. I keep backups on different computers, ideally I would recommend one copy in the cloud and one copy on a local machine. Borg compresses and encrypts its backups.

Edit: I migrated a server once using the backups from this system and it worked great.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Love Inkscape, using it for 15+ years.

I sure hope they fixed the bug from the last version where it would crash if you had a drawing tablet plugged in while opening the app. That has been a huge nuisance for the last few months.

Edit: They fixed it, god bless.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Like many GUIs it makes it so you don't have to remember and type a bunch of commands to carry out basic tasks. I especially find it convenient for checking logs. But no unique functionality compared to CLI. So it's a matter of preference.

[–] earth_walker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (20 children)

Using OSS in your product and giving the OSS devs resources to improve their software, instead of trying to take over their project? Did Valve not get the memo that big tech companies are supposed to be evil?? Oh right, they have a monopoly on video game distribution and all of their products rely on DRM.

 

I mocked up a better workflow for video in a mastodon mobile app. I'm not a developer, just a mobile user who wants to stay in their fedi app of choice (currently Moshidon) while enjoying multimedia content and not get booted out to a web browser every time I want to watch a video or listen to a podcast. I still have no idea how difficult or feasible it is to actually implement this concept.

I think it's very important for fediverse mobile apps to support audio and video streaming to integrate with platforms like Peertube, Castopod, Bandwagon (once that gets going), etc.

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