nek0d3r

joined 1 year ago
[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

It's been a bit since I've asked them, but they certainly complained about the cost before. Almost as much as the hosting itself for sure.

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I've tried explaining to them before, but they think that it's a scam because it's free lol

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (5 children)

And my parents still buy SSL certs because that's just what they know 🤢

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Join the dark side -- stop taking your pills and enjoy Elder Scrolls 6 and Titanfall 3 with the rest of us

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

When I read "fully autonomous", I see how creepy its movements are and just imagine it seizing its moment, getting on all fours and charging someone. You could make a horror movie out of this lol

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Same here! I'm happy to see the UBports fork is still active as Lomiri, I haven't checked it out in a while.

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 75 points 3 weeks ago

Right around when Steam is requiring games to inform users when they install rootkits lmao

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I can't wait until someone cracks it and I can just use it as my go-to source for Nintendo music storage.

...(in Minecraft)

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

KDE, because despite my bitterness for the loss of Unity 8, I know it's merely nostalgia for me. I want something I feel like I can make my own without too much difficulty.

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

Who here actually thinks "goldfish? That's for kids."

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I've been a LONG time user of Adobe, grew up with PhotoDeluxe and pre-suite Photoshop and used every version of Cretive Suite since my parents ran a graphic design business. I made all my high school essays in InDesign CS4. Suffice to say, growing bitter over proprietary software in the last few years has been painful but I'm doing my best to move to only FOSS.

There was a point in time I tried replacing Premiere with DaVinci Resolve, but I quickly noticed it was oriented for color correction, and some of its features for composition were locked behind Fusion. These days, if you can believe it, I do all my video editing in Blender. It's still got a long way to go, but since v4 the VSE has gotten really good. I'd like to try kdenlive when I finish migrating to Linux, but on Windows it basically doesn't support GPU encoding which is a dealbreaker for me.

Adobe Fresco is replaced quite well by Krita. It has a learning curve but is far more powerful as a result. I'm still learning but I'm impressed.

I don't really like Scribus, but I don't really have a need for software like InDesign, so I haven't had to worry about it.

I've used Inkscape way back just because it was portable when Illustrator wasn't. It was pretty minimal back then but I can see it's grown greatly in depth. The workflow is enough to be disruptive, but not too badly to work through I think.

And finally the titan, Photoshop. It's such a massive and ubiquitous software that it simply cannot be replaced by any single program. At least since I moved to drawing in Fresco I don't use PS for that, but again Krita is a fine replacement. Pixel art in PS is very normal too, but that's replaced quite nicely by Aseprite, it's more capable in that space and still quite easy to use if you don't know its features. It's the photo editing and general purpose image editing that's the real challenge. I keep hoping that version 3 of GIMP will magically fix its problems, but in the meantime it's frustratingly clear that it's built by software engineers, not artists, but it's often made out that it's everybody else's burden to forget everything they know and start from scratch to learn its special workflow. There's an interesting patch someone made called PhotoGIMP that's supposed to improve that, but I haven't spent enough time with it to really say. Currently my only alternative is Photopea. It works great right now, but I don't like that it's a web app and not FOSS. I really hope I can eventually find an alternative that I can finally be comfortable with.

[–] nek0d3r@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I have a long term project to migrate my machines, and the introduction of recall pressured me to move faster, but I still have some hurdles to overcome that just require a time sink on my part.

view more: next ›