I for one have never used Photoshop but I used to use Gimp occasionally for some semi-technical markup and annotation. I remember being baffled by how to make a hollow circle, as opposed to a solid one. I kept forgetting the process so I had to look it up every time. Nowadays I just use canva since I don’t want to analyse menus and tool options every time. I don’t have to use Photoshop to say that Gimp’s UI can be better. Anyway, I also use Audacity extensively and although it’s not as outstanding of a case as Gimp, the older versions were a pain, nowadays it’s much better but still plenty to improve (I have not used other audio editing softwares)

Then again I learn software by intuition and exploring menus (rarely I go to read the manual, as do majority of the people I imagine), if I was taught how to use it by someone like you, maybe things would be different, but I doubt that’s how most people interact with software.

I think the difference is with their software you can play around the UI and figure out things by intuition and trial and error

The same thing is not enough in FOSS in many cases. Like for ex, drawing solid shapes in GIMP

I only program in C. I was under the assumption that \n also flushes

Is he giving himself cigarette burns?

Based fediverse user:

Better avert your eyes when neovim enters

Wait you’re not supposed to inhale cigar smoke into your lungs? How do you get high from those then?

No, it is an OS application that handles if

This is trippy, being someone in Bengaluru using Gnome

See! No headphones!

I never used a MacBook but I map caps lock to Esc on every machine I own.

People, the smartest people, they know it’s real. But they, the bad guys, they don’t want you to believe it.

the world can move to start to crawl towards ARM or RISC V

I don’t know which machine learning textbook it was, but in the first few pages of it, the author warns about the stupidity and dangers of this exact same thing 🤷‍♂️

And when copy-pasting didn’t work, those who dared to rise above and understand it, became better. Same with AI, those of the new generation who see through the slop will learn. It’s the same as it has always been. Software engineering is more accessible than ever, say what you will about the current landscape of software engineering but that fact remains undeniable.

spasms due to rage

At least the future is looking good with Valve supporting the cause

For real, those “wild” mosquitoes will land even on moving limbs and keep sucking without you noticing. I consider myself an expert mosquito assassin but even I fear them.

To the user it’s an OS issue. Manufacturers don’t provide good driver support for Linux. They treat windows as the only first class citizen so there is no need to change the default speed or config on windows.

Two sides of the same coin though. For every ten people not switching even if there is one, it’s good just for the push alone

I am not even through a quarter of the article and I wanted to endorse it for being incredibly interesting and amusing, then I saw it was written by Bertrand Russel and in 1932. I was sure it was a more recent article