Yeah, for most things, GIMP user interface is absolutely fine.

Most of my mild grumbles about GIMP are not really usability problems, rather just features that would be nice to have. (We got better layer groups now, yesss. Non-destructive plugins are finally within the viewing distance. Yay.) There is stuff that GIMP doesn’t do but competing open source apps do, and while there’s interoperability, it could always be better. (I hear GIMP is finally going to come up with a replacement for xcf files, hope they cooperate with Krita devs and blow the dust off the OpenRaster project.)

The only really aggravating GIMP usability thing is that exporting is very janky (would rather have one single unified export dialog with all the settings), but I assume that’s just a thing because of the way GIMP file plugins have worked in the past.

Yeah, you can get them from Ipkea, but note that it’s only available as flatpak from them.

MacGyver? My childhood hero? Oh what do I think about the series oh boy [5 hours of gushing omitted for brevity]

I have the DVD box right on the shelf in case I have a MacGyver emergency and need to watch MacGyver

I buy maybe one or two “full price” video games per year. And even then those are probably not exactly “AAA”. Buying tons of indie stuff though!

Got rid of most of the streaming services and I’m seriously considering dropping the few that remain. (I’d need to, ugh, call the support to cancel.) The free streaming service from the national public broadcaster is pretty amazing and I have a wall of DVDs and Blu-Ray discs.

Name 3 UML diagrams

Class diagram, use case diagram and… What was the useless, barely readable evolution of flowcharts called again? Activity diagram?

and 3 architectures!

MOS 6502, amd64, and… I’ve never figured out the ARM naming scheme. AAAAAAarch64 or something?

Somebody needs to finally compose a Linux install music that’s even more memorable and awesome than the Windows XP install music

Not long ago, I needed to quickly add a 4-line thing to my Ruby on Rails app on my Raspberry Pi. I was like, shit, I really can’t be arsed to mount the RPi over Samba to edit this stuff on VSCode on my Windows laptop to add like 4 lines. I don’t have vim, I can’t be arsed to check which vimlike I have at hand, I can’t be arsed to see if my Emacs setup has been customised for this RPi. So fuck it, Nano it is!

Oh lord my code is actively helping making AI worse.

I checked out, it has some of my repositories. They crawled this stuff in 2025 and they probably won’t update it. Whoever uses this dataset will have to deal with some super garbage, I tell ya.

I’m unemployed, I’m incredibly snarky at the recruitment posts. (This literally hasn’t changed in decades.) Right now I’m like “oh, they want Python programmers…? Good, I’m one. For web scraping tasks…? Okay that’s bullshit. Wait, this is an AI job post? The MBAs, drunk with their Vibe Coding power, thought they could feed the Machine, but lo, they were mistaken!!! For web scraping was a Dark Art.”

GNOME folks are like “well, before GNOME was even a thing, we had this application called The Gimp, and we kinda wish we didn’t call it that, so please don’t name your apps for laughs OK?”

The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.

(PRO TIP: dolphin is the KDE file manager, dolphin-emu is what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)

Most of my microblogging stuff has been just shouting in the void about stuff I’ve been doing. And random brainfarts. I follow cool people on social media so I can see them shout in the void about what they’re doing. And their random brainfarts.

I’m happy Mastodon still lets me do just that. Perfect platform for that sort of stuff.

The Algo Lords decided people don’t actually want to see that, they want “popular” things and engagement bait. Yeah no, not what I want.

I don’t care how “open source” the printer claims to be. Both hardware and software belong to Belzebub. Such was the dark pact printer makers signed in blood decades ago, and all land shall obey by those words. We shall hit the print button and wallow in torment forever.

He never was. He’s a bad turtle. A disgrace to turtles.

Been in a bunch of situations where the best available software is 0.x and hella buggy. (Which I discovered after building the software and its dozen dependencies from source because of course no one had packaged it.) But I’m not mad, I’m just “oh well, the situation will improve in the future, I hope”.

You’re saying an actual human called that thing both “pen & ink” and a “typewrite”?

It’s Ben Garrison! Dude can’t get an erection unless he labels every single goddamn thing. While being barely coherent. He’s been doing this for ages!

(Insert that thing from The Simpsons)

No, the most hated US president so far.

3D printing working, safe-to-handle and durable guns is a pretty complicated technical problem. Don’t need to be a genius to figure out that making 100% plastic guns is asking for trouble. Tiny explosion = big plastic cracky.

Meanwhile, any monkey can bash together pieces of scrap metal and produce a durable gun that way. And that was a thing long, long before 3D printers existed.

I wouldn’t say it was borrowed

Reminds me of a disclaimer in a public domain software package: “No warranty expressed or implied. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.”

My memory is hazy, but I think the original PC release of FF7 fixed a bunch of translation bungles. I played that version first and was surprised how many errors were found in the PlayStation version.

I can’t remember if they fixed that particular mistake though. Or if the newer PC releases incorporate any of those fixes, haven’t played much of them.