Lol, just found this in their documentation. Not gonna work unfortunately, but a nice touch ( :

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my .plan is stored in my neurobiological stsd (soft-tissue-state drive) unencrypted (it’s safer than you might think, modulo physical torture it’s rather hard to hack it). and yes, it does go along the same lines as OPs except it includes more violence and (m)(b)illionaires hung like Christmas tree decorations. it also has a separate rolling section which I pull daily which includes taking pills so the long-term one doesn’t get executed prematurely.

I call it motivation ( : I mean no offense to GIMP, they’re definitely the ones who broke the monopoly originally. but since the time I started using it like 10 years ago to now with the release of GIMP 3 barely anything has changed, yet there already are quite a few open source alternatives that shine brighter at very specific niches.

God almighty, how come I’m hearing about this for the first time??? this thing basically does everything GIMP does but better. I mean, node-based editor… are you kidding me, it’s incredible!

after a couple of hours of playing, their node editor is still a bit raw (not blender level), but the foundation is very solid. i’m willing to back this project financially (after I use it for a week or so), and I strongly suggest you do too (if you find it similarly useful). we really need more projects like this so that (a) people stop using adobe, and (b) GIMP devs finally realise that to maintain the audience they actually have to do something.

great! thanks for the reply. one other use-case that crossed my mind is an ability to write simple API requests in the GUI. for example, if you want to automatize a bunch of requests within the app itself, or control the format of its response to requests by an external app (basically tunneling them through your app). not sure how useful it is to others, and perhaps this is more easily achievable by simply writing a python script. but I think some ai companies do have this built in to their web interfaces.

i’d also recommend adding a way to pull the models (say for ollama this is trivial). that’s one of the things I liked about owui

i use draw.io a lot, especially when making schematics for papers!

This was brought up before and is definitive In my todo list!

yep, but it’s a private repo.

like i mention in one of the comments: UI is a dealbreaker for me. oftentimes i have to make complicated annotations, arrows going from one plot to another, combine shapes to make schematic illustrations. i can do all that in a vector editor, sure, but having it all in one place speeds things up considerably.

Yes, i tried remark. I often use markdown-based solutions when i give a more code-centric presentation. But for other purposes, when I want to make annotations on the slide, put arrows in the right places, combine shapes to make a fast schematic etc, this just doesn’t cut. Sure, technically, it’s possible to do it with mermaid, etc, but it takes exponentially more time.

Agree, but like i said, all the media files are still saved to the cloud and viewed through YouTube.

Native math support i think is the main hurdle when it comes to libreoffice for me. Some of the plug-ins that add this functionality were also causing the app to crash.

Will definitely give it a try, although from the looks of it the project seems abandoned. The last commit was 5 years ago.

Sorry yes, i meant onlyoffice. Like i said, it’s indeed quite similar to power point, except for the weirdly looking video embedding. (And of course the fact that it’s free, although i’ve never paid for the powerpoint either :) )

i tried openoffice, and it’s actually quite decent! the video support is kinda clumsy, because it has no preview at all (the video is basically black unless you make a slideshow, and it also has black boundaries make it square, and you have to manually crop it every time). i also don’t quite like their pushiness about making an account with them and running things on the cloud. but otherwise looks pretty good. i mean the main advantage over powerpoint i guess is the ability to run on linux (and the fact they’re free, which is a huge kudo!)

Never actually tried it for presentations. I bet they might have some sort of markdown-parser engine, but again, it will suffer from all the drawbacks of other markdown engines.

well… it kind of works offline. all the media (at least he videos) are still kept on the cloud. with latex – there are literally free online latex services like overleaf which can also sync with a github for offline use. so i’d say latex, despite its heavy install process, is kinda industry standard at this point. besides, you actually don’t need the whole 8GB of latex to get started on beamer. you can probably get away with as-required installation, which essentially installs only the packages that you explicitly specify in your document. yes, configuring it might indeed be a bit of a headache at first, but with tools like latexmk etc, it’s actually not too bad. and i’d be willing to spend the time to actually tailor the workflow if it had a decent-enough UI and support for videos.

never tried Xaringan, but from the look of it it’s yet another markdown framework. which is splendid, but no UI is a huge dealbreaker for me. otherwise i’m happy to write my own parsing engine or just make presentations in pure html/css/js.

i used typst for papers. their “interpretation” of latex is pretty annoying. they basically tried to reinvent it, and it looks counter intuitive (maybe one could get used to it). otherwise, i don’t see how its different from a regular old beamer with no UI, poor support for videos etc.

i did use InDesign a while ago, although not for presentation purposes. the UI is kinda similar to the illustrator, but more tailored to publishing (booklets/posters/books, etc.). I’d imagine making latex (or videos) work in it would be a headache though.