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[–] snowe@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago (16 children)

yes, yes it could. You went into no detail at all, so it's literally up to the reader's imagination. photo touch up could mean literally filling in freckles, well use the eyedropper tool and draw over them. Color science could mean checking the color profile of your monitor, the colors in paint are HSL. Retro pixel art is literally just drawing, you just don't get the help of pixel by pixel drawing, you'll have to manage that yourself. Your response indicated nothing about how you use GIMP, and honestly, I doubt you have used any really in depth features that Photoshop provides.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago

sure, but then you're alienating an entire userbase that can install an OS (which is just a flash drive and hitting a few keys during startup), but absolutely does not have the willpower to sit and figure out configuration on their new OS that absolutely does not work out of the box. Shit, I have enough to deal with in my daily life, I don't want to be debugging driver issues. I haven't had driver issues in windows or mac for over a decade, yet it's the very first thing you encounter on a new distro install.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago

i read the dang wiki and got everything running smoothly in an afternoon

that means it's not ready...

[–] snowe@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago (18 children)

also they didn't mention anything that couldn't be done in MS Paint lol. something Gimp still doesn't have - Content Aware Delete which was added in 2010...literally 15 years ago.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

anyone that wants to use their computer for basic things like netflix or watching any content at all will notice the difference. They won't be able to tell you it's HDR, but they will think "why does this look worse than it did on windows"?

[–] snowe@programming.dev 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (7 children)

they're very correct. Last month I tried out Zorin (which was recommended by one of the linux communities here) and sound didn't even work properly. I plan on writing up a full doc for the linux community on the problems a staff software engineer had with a basic no-frills install (I'm trying to find a distro for my wife), but Linux is absolutely not ready for the general populace.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

that is most definitely not the process. You have to explicitly go into Steam's settings > Compatibility > "Enable Steam Play for all other titles" (what in the world, it's called Steam Play, not Proton?) and then additionally select which Proton version you want. If you don't know this, or don't google it with the right keywords, you won't understand why literally 90% of your library isn't available (in my case it was 99% of my library, I think I only had 3 games available on linux natively). Also if you select the wrong Proton version some games won't run, so you have to know that and switch it for those games only.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

This community is a meta community for the programming.dev Lemmy instance. We do not run a mastodon server. This is also not a programming help community, it’s for discussing issues with the Lemmy instance. From what you’ve written it seems like you’re having trouble with a mastodon API and it would probably be better to ask for help in a community geared toward that.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

buying a pan increases demand for that item, which then gets built in those factories that then pollute the water you drink and the air you breathe. So yeah, they're directly correlated.

[–] snowe@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

recent studies have stated that the pans offgas from manufacturing for weeks after you've bought them, no heating needed, so no, that's not correct. and it was known that they offgas at only 325ºF years ago. https://www.ewg.org/research/canaries-kitchen

so no, teflon pans are bad no matter how you use them, they're bad for the environment, they're bad for your health, they're bad for animals, they're bad for babies that haven't been born yet.

 

I'm trying to get the instance to run better, so I just adjusted the database pooling to hopefully make things run more stable. Let me know if it made stuff worse 😂

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snowe@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev
 

Please comment with what communities you would like to be added here.

For mod creation I need both the url style name (experienced_devs) and the Display name (Experienced Devs)

 

Has anyone used WASM with Kotlin yet? I still haven't had a chance to check out Multiplatform at all (haven't really had a need).

 

Welcome to the community!

My name is Tyler Thrailkill (@snowe or @snowe2010 on almost every site). I am currently the main mod at r/experiencedDevs on Reddit, and am starting this site up in the hopes that we can make a collective developer community free from VC influence. This is partially because of the recent API changes Reddit has declared, but also because developers are the ones that can most likely make a community like this succeed.

It will probably not go well, I understand that. It will probably be crazy expensive. I understand that. I do hope that the community is able to work together to actually make this a success though.

I've started by creating 3 communities:

meta is for discussions about programming.dev itself. I think this is one of Stack Overflows best ideas (was it their idea?), because it allows for incremental improvement as a collective group. Please use this to discuss things you think need to change about the site.

Programming is for general purpose programming discussions. This is an analogue to /r/programming on reddit.

Finally, Experienced Devs is an analogue to the /r/experiencedDevs sub that I currently moderate on Reddit. I hope to pull some of my mods over from there, but we're still talking about it because we don't even know if lemmy is built to handle the traffic that this site could generate.

I will be creating several more meta posts in the coming days, so be on the lookout for those. Thank you for reading!

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