I’ve used all three products and I prefer Gimp. My wife prefers Krita. It’s great to have choices.

I mostly agree. The only Adobe product I miss is After Effects. I haven’t found anything that scratches that itch.

I use Blender (and others), but it’s not ideal for 2.5D effects.

Yeah, nah. Live tooting an event it would be easy to exceed those numbers. Used to do it all the time, back in the day.

A lot is based in Singapore. There was a story a few days ago about how China nixed the sale of a Singapore-based AI company to Meta.

All the nice bells and whistles that mint comes with: mostly cinnamon and the upgrade manager out-of-the-box. I’ve been using it for a few months, and I prefer it over stock debian and normal mint.

Profit is far too easy to manipulate. A percentage of gross revenue would really sting.

A friend of a friend died from spilling a small amount of HF onto himself.

It’s only exhausting if you have to remember the lies. The media will never challenged him on them, though.

In Singapore, it’s mostly the elderly. I saw a guy a few days ago with two phones playing it as he descended an escalator. The especially keen ones use four or five phones at a time.

I had it for more than 5 years before abandoning it. I still got ads. I’d complain and YouTube would tell me it was a rare bug, or my browser, or the phase of the moon. They’d promise it’d never happen again and it still kept happening. I suspect it was a test to see what they could get away with.

Others in the comments have similar stories.

You occasionally still get ads, even with premium.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICQ

GenX. I used IRC back in the early 90s, but by the mid-90s I’d moved on. Probably to ICQ. I can’t recall.

Then, in the mid-noughties my millennial work colleagues were going crazy for Mirc. I was shocked to discover it was just IRC with a pretty face but all the same issues that caused me to leave it 10 years before.

And it’s still going. Although, no longer flavour of the month.

Ignoring the missing features, is stoat a better experience for non-techies coming from discord?

That would just further disenfranchise creators, most of whom don’t make much (if any) money. Why would corporations fork out money for rights to stories/scripts/music when they can wait 10 years and get it for free? We have enough issues currently with corps stealing our IP to train their AIs, and then regurgitate almost exact copies to directly compete against us.

I showed my wife the before and after of my home pages. She said, “They’re the same.”

Happy.

I just switched to Octopi. For me, it’s an almost perfect replacement. Plus it’s a local developer.

They could have bought second life a hundred times over and at least had something that worked (albeit poorly).

I agree. I looked at tailwind and couldn’t believe it was so popular. It defeats the entire purpose of CSS, and returns web dev back to the early 90s. Just stupid.

Except all those times where you learnt how to do something when you set it up years ago, and haven’t touched it since because it just bloody works. Then when you need to upgrade to a new machine you have to learn it all again.

Been using Linux for thirty years and it still happens.