Completely automatic should be one of the options. Not just ‘reminders’ and ‘don’t check’. I know that I used to use several years ago.

Thank you!! That is exactly what I was looking for.

That is a big help. I was stuck on the idea that that option wasn’t available when making a new doc and didn’t think to look under the change mode menu.

Yep. Even have this problem with people who agree that it is a bad idea and that google/etc is tracking them. I struggle to admit it, but I think many people are just sheep. Or probably lemmings. I think the last few years have shown that many people really will walk off that cliff if they think “everyone” else is, even if they know the cliff is there and the bottom is way way down there. It looks like they can’t help themselves.

Curious about what wasn’t working with matrix? and how XMPP is comparing? I haven’t used XMPP in like over a decade. Is it still about the same? Better? I don’t think I was that aware of its group abilities. Mostly used it with one friend back in the N900 days where it was built in. How does the excryption compare? about the same if you choose the right option? You got a favorite linux client?

(I know I am pestering you with too many questions, feel free to ignore)

Not haunted by legacy identifiers like phone numbers,

That is a very solid point that all too few people consider. (I’m looking at you telegram!)

I think that as a photo editor, GIMP is the best option for open source. But as a print designer the lack of being able to work in CMYK and 1 bit images is a big problem.

Fortunately Krita does the CMYK thing extremely well, but it also lacks the ability to handle 1 bit images.

Wondering if anyone out there has discovered a lesser known open source app that works with 1 bit images well? Maybe something made for old school pixel art?

It seems strange to me, since even a more modern format like png supports 1 bit.

To be fair… that is more of a MS Paint kind of tool. I’ve been using Photoshop professionally for over 3 decades and I don’t think I have ever used it. It took me a bit just to find it just now. Don’t think I’ve ever used the rectangle tool either. A vector editing program like inkscape/illustrator or scribus/indesign are better tools for that kind of thing.

With that said. GIMP does have an ellipse selection tool, and that is something that I use often enough. And if you really wanted to draw a circle in a pixel pusher program you could just use that tool, invert it and delete on a separate layer.

I don’t think it is toxic, as much as it is almost always misused. Read the following and tell me how many people you know have been using the term correctly.

WIKIPEDIA: Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law.

Looked like she was always pushing the marxist position to me. I mean, this mostly started when she was playing with the EU “aristocracy”.

I think the opposite. The climate thing hasn’t been working as well, so they are flipping to the other side of the coin to push their authoritarianism.

Or maybe I just have an American bias. I’m too use to watching the false dichotomy see-sawing ever couple decades.

It can’t be both?

Its not like you can’t be disgusted by Israel, the neo-british empire they are a part of along with Hamas that is all too happy to be their handy little patsy whenever they need an Oswald or Crooks. Or at least, I don’t find that opinion to be a challenging one to have.

I found this to be the most interesting part:

You might think this sounds like it violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects American citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause. Well, so does the American Civil Liberties Union. Norfolk, Virginia Judge Jamilah LeCruise also agrees, and in 2024 she ruled that plate-reader data obtained without a search warrant couldn’t be used against a defendant in a robbery case.

Last time I read about this issue was before this happened. Finally the ball is bouncing back a little. Hope to see more of it.

Most Democrats will and have said the same thing.

Oddly… Trump admin people know better than that… but I’m not expecting them to actually do anything differently than what you suggest. Probably both are already captured by whatever data has already been found on them.

several reasons:

they both think they’re in control of it… but mostly because the people funding most of them (same people) are telling them not to… often in the form of police unions and relevant organizations

any party large enough to win anything is going to be mostly co-opted… you gotta vote for individuals… not parties.

same reason most democrats don’t

Ugg… I suspected when I kept seeing more of these things in parking lots and roads. Guess, now I know for sure.

I’ve been using Photoshop for over 20 years.

I hear ya. I’m a print designer and the biggest hole is scribus. It is impressive for how good it is in the last few years, but is no where close to where I need it to be for pro work compared to indesign.

But, I think Krita is definitely good enough to do what I need photoshop for… and Krita is better in some ways. Like for illustration work. Krita is better than GIMP for my uses because it has the strong color model functionality that GIMP doesn’t have. Mostly that would be the CMYK functionality. GIMP only exports to CMYK. You can’t work directly in it. You need that for print design.

Interestingly, the biggest problem is the whole “using Photoshop for over 20 years” (30 for me) thing.

After several years so much of what we do with these programs becomes second nature and we don’t have to think about it. Even if the other program is better, it takes a lot to get to that level with a new program. I’m trying to use Krita more and more and I still feel like I am no where close to that goal. albeit… somewhat closer…

While GIMP does have a clunky interface, I think part of that is that we just aren’t as familiar with it as the program we have been using for decades.

I don’t know what you use gimp for, but Krita might be worth a shot. Although I think if you only work in RGB and only do “photo shop” kind of tasks, GIMP may still be better.

I was one of those people who switched during the early Ubuntu days of 2006/2007.

First heard about it and gave it a try in 1995 when a friend told me about it in college. I was/am a graphics artist so it wasn’t an option then. But I knew then that it probably would eventually get there and windows would keep getting more evil and that I would switch. So I started switching from proprietary software solutions to open source whenever possible so that it would be easier to do when the day arrived.

So… in 2006 I was hearing a lot of talk about linux finally being easier to use and setup with a lot of gui functionality. Which is required for graphics work. Although, I had adobe at work and was there most of the week, so I didn’t really care anymore about having that at home. And the stuff I played around with was blender and the like.

I was also getting out of the habit of gaming. I had been really into FPS. Mainly the half-life mod “Day of Defeat” where I was doing the clam competition thing. But I burnt out on it and didn’t really care as much. But I did dual boot for a while with gaming in mind. It was about a year later when I realized that I hadn’t booted into Windows for several months (and I needed the hard drive space) that I scrubbed it.

So here I am.

I still use Ubuntu variations mostly. Although I intend on switching to Devuan. I’ve been experimenting with it on a laptop to get it just the way I want it before switching my desktops. I’m still struggling with btrfs snapshots. I thought I had it recently, then I broke it somehow. I’m still not entirely clear what the whole snapshot thing is doing. But I look forward to getting there soon. I hope to make this my final linux setup for the next decade at least.

Fair question.

It is something I turn off so I don’t remember for sure. Typically it comes up during the installation process. If your distro is using “Software Updater” it should be an option in it’s settings called “automatically check for updates”. This is on Ubuntu 25.04. Although it has been updated a few times from the version it was originally.

But whatever program is being used for updates should have options that will probably get you there.

typically the default is autoupdate to be activated…