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 😅)

3 Days of The Condor is the best political movie, IMHO.

Best Apolitical? Picking one of my favorites, Where Eagles Dare.

Both are watchable for free on Archive.org :D

I suppose an old 2g phone would be safe since they shut down the 2g networks, AFAIK, but those aren’t particularly useful as a non-phone device :p

There’s quite a few small handheld laptop/computers on the market now like the Mecha Comet or ClockworkPi which only have wifi and bluetooth, I think those would be pretty safe. (Could also make one, like this)

Open hardware would be great. AFAIK there is currently no open-source cellular radio hardware on the market.

It’s been a while since I saw the video, but looking at it again, he seems to trust that taking out a sim card and turning on airplane mode will render the phone untrackable, but as Povoq mentioned in another response, even without a sim card it would still be trackable, since the phone would still be pinging towers so it can make emergency calls, which is a good point.

I think realistically the only way to have a phone on your person and truly 100% know you’re not being tracked with it is by putting it in a faraday bag/cage, and knowing that the moment you take it out, your location will likely be known to varying degrees.

He seems to think that removing a sim card and turning on airplane mode is enough to make it untrackable, at least with graphene OS. He doesn’t mention anything about emergency calls, which sounds like a big oversight on his part if airplane mode doesn’t disable it, though he does bring up faraday bags for when he’s feeling ‘extra cautious’.

The hated one has a video on the subject of making your phone not get tracked, and the main point is that it’ll keep tracking you no matter what if the sim card is in it.

EDIT: Even with the sim card removed, it can ping towers to due to the emergency call feature (airplane mode may or may not temporarily disable the pinging). The only way to be sure you’re not being tracked is to a put a phone in a faraday bag.

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.

I popped in there to encourage some having trouble. One seemed pretty grumpy about not remembering an old account as a roadblock for some reason, but hopefully someday they head over here regardless.

Absolutely deserves it, it’s a masterpiece of animation and storytelling.

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.

1. Joining and organizing within your local community to create connections with others is incredibly powerful, will lay the groundwork for effective resistance.
2. We can effect things drastically with a general strike. This can massively impact their income streams, and can bring a government to its knees if done on a large enough scale.
3. Join the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace, so that the general strike is even more effective.

If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Join up with allies while we still can easily!

I figured I’d recommend the OG since it’s easily available from flathub, and even in maintainence mode, was likely feature complete for most needs. But cheers for mentioning TriliumNext as well, which hopefully will come to flathub as well soon!

Giving us eggs would just be used to make the current administration look better.

“See? We brought egg prices down just like we promised! Take that, biden!”

In the meantime, you could try alternative plant based eggs, like Just Egg.

Ah, it’s showing up for me now. Must not of federated out yet when I responded.

Good luck with your new community.

Sorry, I meant the one in your post body, so [email protected] instead of [email protected].

Quick heads up, your link needs to start with an exclamation mark ! to have it link to your community.

Otherwise browsers will think it’s an email.

The spat with the OBS devs was due to a fedora package maintainer refusing to package OBS with an older library for their own Fedora Flatpak repo, despite the newer library causing severe breakage with OBS (which is why the OBS devs held it back in the flathub release).

The Qt foundation tried to get fucky once already, and KDE and some other major companies that rely on it were about ready to fork it if they persisted. Qt seemed to calm down after that.

Not a great relationship to be in though, constantly suspecting that your toolkit might do a rugpull at some point if the shareholders demand it. But I think they could pull off a fork if they ever did.