Thrift stores almost always have desk or standing lamps. Combined with cheap, warm colored low wattage LED bulbs (25w equivalent or lower), they add wonderful ambiance without breaking the bank.

I hadn’t heard of Jami, but that looks excellent, cheers for sharing!

Unfortunately it does not currently support audio sharing, but I’d recommend keeping an eye on Bananas Screen Sharing, as it may support it soon, from what I’ve seen in their Discord discussions.

Premiere --> Davinci Resolve (Openshot or Kdenlive for FOSS)

Illustrator --> Affinity (Inkscape for FOSS)

Photoshop --> Affinity Photo (GIMP w/ PhotoGIMP & Resynthasizer for FOSS)

Whatever Adobe has for painting --> Krita (FOSS)

The biggest advantage of private email is that it stops the email provider itself from data mining some of your most sensitive info, as Gmail and other free emails most certainly do. Basically it’s protection from surveillance capitalism, but you rightfully can’t consider it a secure way to send messages or info to other, non-encrypted users.

Posteo is only 12€ a year, so a bit cheaper. Doesn’t support custom domains though.

Apologies for the late response, but cheers for the update! I’d be curious to hear how you liked it in a recipe when you do cook with it :)

I don’t think I’ll be eating it plain on toast anytime soon

I don’t have it on toast super often, but if combined with a goodly amount of butter-tasting stuff and with only a veeeery light coating of marmite, it’s actually pretty tasty, much better than on a cracker on its own, I imagine.

I’d actually never used Photoshop until yesterday (CS6 to be exact. Yarr! 🏴‍☠️ ), out of curiosity to see how it compared to this modded GIMP, so I don’t really have a good frame of reference on how they truly compare beyond what I messed around with briefly.

On a side note, I’ve seen on youtube that it’s possible to get the latest version of Photoshop working in WINE on Linux Mint, which could be an option if you decide to fully switch to Linux. I managed to get CS6 working in WINE, though it seemed to be a little slowish when making brush strokes (unsure if that was normal or not), and there was a couple minor visual bugs (a tooltip not going away), but nothing that would’ve fully prevented me from using it.

Woah! Had no idea. Considering that, I’m amazed this ability for GIMP isn’t more well known (or maybe it is, and I’m just unusually late hearing about 😅)

This is no different from saying “The child slaves working the cobalt mines have it worse, so buck up and be grateful!”, which isn’t terribly useful. Things could always be worse, but that doesn’t delegitimize or negate other issues. Instead of saying you could have it worse, why not instead ask how we can improve things, or even propose something?

It’s main purpose is to demonstrate how Linux could function with a less unix-like file structure, in an effort to make it more intuitive to use, and to make it possible to have multiple versions of a library/package without conflict.

I personally really love what they attempted, but it’s unfortunately not been adopted anywhere else, making it unpractical to use as a daily driver.

But it serves as a very successful experiment that hopefully someday inspires change or a new way of thinking about the Linux file structure for other distros.

There’s very good reasons that app developers focus on flatpaks, which mostly revolves around how incredibly terrible the experience is creating native packages for each distro and each release version of those various distros.

Flatpak used to be problematic, but even a loud hater of Flatpak, Richard Brown of openSUSE, now lauds Flatpak as an excellent solution after his criticisms were addressed.

Voyager thankfully does also have this feature. If you go to a community and press on the little icon at the top right, next to the 3 little dots, you’ll open the ‘sort by’ menu. If you press the ‘Top’ option, it will then let you choose between those different time options.

Don’t we already have that feature? I can choose to see the top posts of a community by hour, six hours, 12 hours, day, week, month, and so on, up to a year by clicking the sort type drop down menu on any community.

Do you mean be able to see the top posts between two different times, like top posts between 2022 and 2023?

Lubuntu now ships with LXQt.

Lubuntu would be fine, though personally I’d suggest the lightweight Linux Mint versions, such as Linux Mint XFCE.

Hm, isn’t Airvpn based in Italy?

Politics are affecting increasing amounts of people, it makes sense that there would be more discussion of it.

Helpful link on how to find like minded folk to organize with: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451