Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

I want to say the Natron compositing software, but I could be misremembering.

I seem to recall it losing it's only maintainer and therefore being updated or maintained anymore. I want to say this was back in 2018, but since it's not a piece of kit I use often, I don't really think about it enough for it to stick in my head. Anyway...point being. It posted a fairly large update in 2022 and has been doing updates since then.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

It kind of makes me want to go live in a shack in the woods, grow a garden and live out the rest of my days growing my beard and writing increasingly more obscure poetry until it gets posthumously published after my death.

Vegetables and Trees are real at least.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Very true. It's the immediacy of it that struck me this morning.

If I make a post telling you that I met Elvis Presley as an old man and you respond with "Pics or it didn't happen". I can literally post a reply to you within a couple of minutes (If I knew where to go) of me meeting an elderly Elvis Presley. Whereas before I'd have to put some effort into it, and then respond a day later with my finished photoshop creation. The immediacy lends it credibility in the way that traditional photo manipulation didn't.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Standard 3D shooter/War games like your Call of Duties, Battlefields, etc.... It's not that I'm a prude per se, I'll happily play a single player campaign similar settings if they respect the material. Though I prefer science fiction where what I'm killing is aliens, or Fallout raiders and Super Mutants, or Zombies, etc...

But (and this is MY OPINION only...I don't judge anyone who feels differently) there's something creepy and wrong about using very realistic modern-day set human-to-human war shooters when the end result is to tea-bag your friend when you kill him and have 13 year old kids calling out slurs in open chat. It just denigrates and cheapens a subject matter that I think should be treated with a lot more solemnity and respect.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Just quickly checked it out (I'm at work at the moment) and wow, that site looks great! Thanks!

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it all boils down to Trump's ego.

Saying it made him look like an utter fool. So his enablers will do whatever they have to do to prove that he was "correct".

It's honestly frightening.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You sir (or madam) are a gentleman (gentlewoman) and a scholar.

That was exactly the problem. Some digging around in the config file showed a duplicate system tray hidden just off screen. Probably happened when I was moving panels around.

Thanks!

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

looks like OP is a beginner and not an experienced editor

Basically yes. I have contributed a few times when I thought about it, but then go long stretches between contributions. But it's only now that I'm trying to make a conscious effort TO think about it more once I downloaded organic maps so I could move away from Google.

I've always had the opinion that if you use an FOSS product, the "cost" is in "contribution"; which doesn't have to be monetary (though I often do). The payment for using a FOSS app (to me) is to contribute in terms of either helping to develop it, or writing user manuals for it (I helped with LibreOffice Documentation back in the day) or even creating tutorials or recording tutorials, or even just championing it's use to your friends and family.

Moving away from Google I realized that I had been negligent in that with OSM. I've contributed to most of mybigger ones (GIMP, Scribus, Inkscape, LibreOffice, etc...) But OSM just fell under the radar. So I'm trying to correct that by making a point of contributing to the data as much as I can.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 56 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Every single one of us, as kids, learned the concept of "garbage in, garbage out"; most likely in terms of diet and food intake.

And yet every AI cultist makes the shocked pikachu face when they figure out that trying to improve your LLM by feeding it on data generated by literally the inferior LLM you're trying to improve, is an exercise in diminishing returns and generational degradation in quality.

Why has the world gotten both "more intelligent" and yet fundamentally more stupid at the same time? Serious question.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

I think these are just the ones who get caught and that there are hundreds more

"I think" is the operative statement there. What you think is pointless. Facts are what matter. And without evidence that it IS the majority doing it, automatically lumping them all into that group makes us no better than them in terms of their rhetoric and divisiveness.

Every damn side needs to stop painting the other with broad strokes and then complaining when they do it back. It's not helpful. Questions that are worded like this are not helpful.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm a guy and I'm in a very customer facing line of work and I don't have that issue at all.

As others have said, maybe it's an age thing (I'm middle aged) or maybe it's a tone thing. If I'm complimenting them, it's usually on something specific; "Oh hey, those are really cool glasses" or "I love what you've done with your hair.", etc...

It's never "You've got pretty hair, lady." or "Gosh yer' beautiful."

The line between platonic comment and creepy sex weirdo (in my mind) is if you're complimenting them on something they actively did that you think is cool (hairstyle, choice of glasses, etc...) it's fine. Complimenting them on features that they have no control over, like saying "Hey, I just wanted to, completely randomly tell you how attractive you are" is creepy.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 months ago

Tell my wife, "hello"...

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