lynndotpy

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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
This author is excellent. I found their blog earlier today when relaying advice on setting up an iPhone for someone to use after a stroke. ( https://veroniiiica.com/iphone-accessibility-settings-for-st... )
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
> When I'm typing, there's a delay, then all the letters pop up at once. You took a good phone, and you made it all shitty. It pissed me off.
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
Maybe, but I don't use it and nobody I know uses it. It's a very politically divisive platform, and users without an account can't post on there. There are plenty of reasons not to use X, but that's not what's in co
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
It bears pointing out: They posted this exclusively on X, and they did not need to do that. They are not "reaching the largest amount of people, companies". It would be one thing if they could only use one channel. If they could o
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
People who never hear about GIMP in the first place are never going to use it. Someone asks, "How did you make that?" and your answer is PhotoShop and not GIMP. That's one less person who might use GIMP, and one less person w
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
I have a rebuttal, but before you can hear it, you'll need to give me your email, your government ID, and you'll need to agree never to sue me in the court of law and to waive your right to a jury trial. Wait, I just instituted us
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
It's to point out how comparatively small X is. It's in the same ballpark as Pinterest and Quora. Github decided not to use email (which every Github customer has), their sites, or their otherwise active BlueSky.
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
It's certainly not the right platform. It'd be one thing if they had any official communication on the matter anywhere else. Maybe they're ashamed and are trying to limit the visibility while only technically issuing an ann
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
Hey, I'm just describing how some words are used
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
No no, the other way around; hard R ends in 'er', and soft R ends in 'a' (despite not having an R).
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
That's fair, it's likely not _everybody_ would have a problem. But _enough_ people would. There are contexts where I've had no problems (e.g. in an office where every cubicle had at least one Linux machine, plenty of people h
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
I think "Do people commonly understand 'gimp' as a derogatory word?" is the wrong question. The right question is, "Did _enough_ people understand 'gimp' as a derogatory word to harm its adoption?" an
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
The difference is that git was among the best-in-class and developed and used by the people behind Linux, and that the word 'git' wasn't as offensive as 'gimp'. If GIMP had feature-parity with Photoshop, and had bee
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
No need to apologize, you didn't know. In either case, it doesn't matter whether or not Pulp Fiction is "mainstream". It does not matter what you think. It does not matter what I think. No amount of condescending comment
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
Yes, I cited it an above comment: https://www.xach.com/gg/1997/1/profile/1/ Here is the full quote: > > Your home page says that you created GIMP to address the lack of free or inexpensive Uni
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
I'm gen Z, we know what Pulp Fiction is. Even the gen alphas do. We just had a crossover in Fortnite, and Pulp Fiction is in the Chainsaw Man opening. I'm anti-Puritan as well, but there are far better hills to die on. In either c
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
How would any of this apply to GIMPS? I think you might be equivocating these on their names, but it's simply not the same. People complain about the name of GIMP because it causes them problems when trying to use it in work and school
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
To repeat, it's not a collision, because it was not accidental. Kimball and Mattis named their image editor after the full-body sex-slave suit, on purpose. GIMP is a backronym. It's also worth emphasizing that "Pulp Fiction&q
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
This is not true, I am in America and the name has been seriously problematic. This is not surprising, the developers were English-speaking Americans who chose a name to cause offense on purpose, in reference to the full-body sex slave suit
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
Tangent, but it might help you avoid an embarrassing situation later on. If someone says "They called me the hard-R", they're not talking about the R-word. "R----d" is usually just called "the R word", whi
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
You might be happy to learn that GIMP is a lot better on Mac with the 3.0 release than it was before. When I started using a Mac in 2022 I was a bit heartbroken at broken bits of the UI. I started using Affinity as a compromise, but its UX
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
"Names don't matter" is obviously a silly stance. Pre-emptively dismissing people who disagree as "not serious" when you're taking a stance like this does not make an argument in favor of your stance. Names are
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
GIMP and its UI are the only material here, what are you talking about? These are pain points about GIMP that multiple people have brought up every time GIMP has been mentioned online for decades. I say this as someone who has used GIMP for
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
While I agree, and I've been hammering this point as a GIMP user for two decades I think the "GIMP is actually a fine name" are increasingly a minority. Its name makes GIMP hostile to user adoption. Anyone who works in a prim
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
Yes! But I do agree, six or seven units are not enough. Extending the music analogy, we could call those powers of two "octaves", and divide it into twelve exponentially-spaced steps (i.e. 2^(years/12)). The break even is abo
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
I like the use of the Weber-Fechner law, that's a lens I use to think of age as well :) The idea is that experienced time is proportional to log time, i.e. it's why time seems to move faster as we age. You could even measure your
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
I've been gaming on Linux since 2020 on an Nvidia GPU with no problems, including some AAA titles like Overwatch and Halo.
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
> "Intelligence is the new spec." Oof . Very upfront: "Don't pay attention to RAM, processor, battery, monitor, price, etc. We're not telling you that, because you'd laugh. We're selling access to web
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
For someone unfamiliar, it's also worth noting this term is used pretty loosely. (I'm guilty of this too!) E.g. Before Rivals of Aether, the same dev made a Smash clone in the GameBoy artstyle and controlset. It's understood
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by lynndotpy 5mo ago
I love this kind of thing :) I finally have a second site to bookmark alongside this similar collection: https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots

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