Bye ✌️

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but at least on Reddit there is more actual human content.

lol. lmao even

I have a consumer tier Ironwolf that isn’t too loud, it does make a little noise but it’s not a whine, more of a very low rushing air type noise when spinning (like the “brown noise” another commenter mentioned) and fairly quiet grinding when it’s active. Not the quietest drive ever, but less noticeable than some I’ve had in the past. The periodic thermal calibrations from a 2.5" HDD I have inside a mini PC next to it are more noticeable.

There’s even an unofficial AppImage of it now, which is nice because the one that deals with the Flatpak seems to break every time the Flatpak gets updated.

Exhibit A: the text tool.

In general though, I find the UX to just be worse across the board. Too many steps. Non-intuitive defaults. Bad keyboard shortcuts. and so on.

To be honest, I have successfully avoided using bare GIMP for enough years now (not sure how old PhotoGIMP is, but I think it’s been around at least 5 years) that the specific bad memories are fading.

I do think GIMP has objectively bad UX in the sense that it’s definitely not just “I was used to Photoshop first so I automatically think everything else sucks.” Probably the last ~20 years of flamewars started by people pissing off the devs by saying the exact same thing is some evidence of that. But I’m not a UX expert and haven’t sat down to do a side-by-side comparison… honestly, that’s something I’d really enjoy reading/watching if somebody did do it.

If such a thing existed, it’d be coolest if they did it with one of the “good” versions of classic Photoshop, like version 7 or whatever was made by pirates into a portable app in the 2000s. I have no idea how far the UX has evolved in Adobe’s rent-seeking era because I stopped using even portable Photoshop when I switched to Linux as my daily driver for good in 2015 or so. Then suffered with GIMP for a few years, hating every nanosecond of it, til PhotoGIMP came along.

Look into PhotoGIMP.

GIMP is hot garbage compared to classic Photoshop (I haven’t used the rent-seeking versions so I wouldn’t know about those). The UX has been utter shite and will remain utter shite because they like it that way. PhotoGIMP has been a godsend.

It must be because they’re ungrateful and racist.

They also think they can maintain control of the narrative. Nope.

that’s fair. I like sdf.org but I would, I chose it.

…have you expended the slightest bit of effort to do that? Because there are plenty.

I continue to maintain that the best individual policy is to instance-block .world and let the redditor hoi polloi who end up there self-select onto smaller and better instances as they wake up to what a crappy place the default is. If they aren’t capable of eventually waking up to that, then I don’t really want them in my feed, so .world is a good place for them to be contained.

The DNC can eat shit and die. 🙂

then unsubscribe.

WPA and WPA2 gear still has plenty of vulnerabilities.

WiFi 6 has made this a lot more viable than it used to be. I’ve done a fair amount of parking lot leeching and new gear is worth it.

Back when I was housing insecure but still had a place of my own to live, I first set up a point-to-point wifi link to some kids across the street to defray my internet expenses - they paid part of my bill instead of having their own internet. That was more than a decade ago and the hardware & software weren’t so reliable. When the arrangement fell apart and I no longer could pay the bill, I cracked the network of some neighbors in my building and used the same antenna to provide internet for myself and 3 others in my house for about a year. The neighbors were a nice young couple so I did my best to be decent about it - set up an always-on permanent VPN and used flow control to limit our max throughput.

It’s still possible to do this, and I’m still broke, so after a few years not needing to do any such thing, I cracked a network to have internet during a housesitting gig (house did not have internet).

Edit: get WiFi 6 or better gear for this. Trust me, the improvement in performance in marginal situations is well worth it. WiFi 6 was a big improvement over WiFi 5, which was a big improvement over WiFi 4, when it comes to staying connected and getting data across a dodgy link. I haven’t done much straight up piracy lately but I have done plenty of leeching in parking lots, and WiFi 6 gear is absolutely worth the money.

Pirating wifi doesn’t preclude any of this. See also the GL.iNet devices, such as the GL-MT3000.

Right, and my ideal situation is that all the low-quality ones stay on .world and the rest filter out to join us on smaller instances.

Just instance-block .world, as the reddit refugees end up there, the least worst will naturally filter out to other smaller instances in a helpful Darwinian selection process

I think they might be more useful than LFP and certainly than lead-acid in that role. One of the biggest issues with consumer UPS units is that they recharge very slowly after an outage, so they’re mostly only useful for infrequent power cuts. If Na-ion can recharge substantially faster, it would be more useful in areas with frequent interruptions.