Hemingways_Shotgun

Dick the Birthday Boy was literally the first thing that popped into my head.

Hey. It’s been a lonely year. Don’t shame me, bro.

My opinion as a user:

I don’t personally care. I don’t necessarily see GIMP as being a slur at all, since to me it’s more related to a completely consentual sex thing than to something a person has no control over. It’s not called “R-word” or anything like that. If a person wants to be a gimp, more power to 'em. Let their freak flag fly, I say. And I’m not aware of the other use being at all common anymore, having been replaced with other more modern slurs.

However, in the matter of optics, sure, it still comes off as a little odd, possibly immature, etc… But the argument that “No body wants a name change” actually does hold some merit because GIMP is completely open source. There is nothing stopping people from forking it and releasing it with a new name, and even though this has been done (Glimpse) nobody jumps ship to this new, more maturely named alternative that is exactly the same. They stay on GIMP. Why…because no one really cares. We’re all mature enough to say “haha…stupid name” and then move on with our lives without getting into a huff about every little thing.

How about a quick. “Hey. Just so you know, we live in sewers and eat gruel. Now make your choice.”

Morpheus didn’t give him all the facts and rushed him into a decision before giving him the chance to process what little information he was given.

That’s not a choice. That’s a con-job.

True. But I was coming at if from the perspective of an every day user coming from Windows. email, word processing, internet, etc… Even gaming and photo editing.

The more professional the needed software gets, of course the more obscure it gets.

You are correct. But you are missing the most important button. Right in the middle of that table there is a big red button that says “autopilot - Manage all these things for me and I can play with a few of those other buttons, or all, or even none, and the rest doesn’t have to be touched by the user unless they want to”

I honestly can’t remember the last time I’ve come across a package that I needed that so obscure that it wasn’t found somewhere as at the very least an appimage, if not a flatpak. I haven’t had to build from source in I don’t even know how many years now.

Phonetically it’s pronounced “K-D-E-is-superior”

But hey, language is protean. It evolves and flows like a river, daddy-o.

Me putting water in my keurig machine every morning…

The twist should have been that the mother was indeed the stripper from season one.

I was fine with the mother dying. It was just the immediate twist of “Mom’s dead, and this is me now spending 9 years explaining to you why I want to go bang your aunt”.

I think the bittersweet ending of finding out that the mother was dead all along and Ted was telling the story to his kids would have been a great ending without the add-on Robin double-twist.

Honestly, I loved that show. But this picture is still so damn true.

Hail, Thane of Cawdor.

I’ll hear NO aspersions against my precious Cron!

Cron is magic. Cron is civilization!

So programmers are now basically the equivalent of in-shop publishing house editors, or a better analogy, a script-doctor in the hollywood production scene.

A company vibe-codes something that is cheap and shitty, then has to pay an editor to actually make it usable.

I hate this timeline…just pay the person to create the code in the first place…

Not the point of the meme, but where does one go about getting fresh supplies (ribbons, replacement keys, etc…) for old typewriters like this to keep them in top condition?

Because I’m not going to willingly give my creative efforts over to a corporation that will hold it hostage and only allow me to work so long as I’m using only their products.

The only way that has any accuracy is if the Linux photo has a button that quite literally manages most of the other buttons for you, and the more complicated stuff exists really only if you want to do it manually.

You can get by just fine literally never touching any of those buttons day-to-day. But they’re there for the people who want to get down in the mud with their operating system.

It’s fine. Even if you’re on Nvidia graphics, as long as you’re past the 570 branch of propietary driver (I believe…or is it 575?) there’s enough working that you can use Wayland as a daily driver, even for gaming.

The only thing that I use it for that I haven’t been able to test yet is DaVinci Resolve, and that’s largely because installing DaVinci resolve has become a hassle in itself on Linux.

Installing a couple of packages to be able to go back to an X11 session if I feel like it is not that big a deal.