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  1. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    Interesting, and it's available via yay. I'll look into it, thanks!

    Interesting, and it's available via yay. I'll look into it, thanks!

    1 vote

  2. Comment on What are some interesting landmarks in your neck of the woods? in ~talk

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    Some highlights I want to see (and may have...): the Aircraft Boneyard: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BZ5hBP4CrXGqWsoN6 or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis%E2%80%93Monthan_Air_Force_Base Forestiere's...

    Some highlights I want to see (and may have...):

  3. Comment on What are some interesting landmarks in your neck of the woods? in ~talk

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    That's crazy, because Six Flags took over Marriott's Great America/Great America/Paramount's Great America, and I'm not the only [ex-]Californian who has referred to it as "Six Flags Great...

    That's crazy, because Six Flags took over Marriott's Great America/Great America/Paramount's Great America, and I'm not the only [ex-]Californian who has referred to it as "Six Flags Great America". I did not even realize until I read this that I am/was incorrect.
    I believe the only time I visited was during Marriott's owning time in the 80s, and I hated the feeling of falling at that age (until my late teens when I overcame it to try to be cool, but I still hate it), and all I really remember was Looney Tunes were the mascots, and I got soap in my eye at the hotel we were staying at.

  4. Comment on Asteroid discovered only two days ago will fly by Earth closer than the moon today in ~space

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    That's what I was thinking. I'd guess that a 1.5 meter diameter might not even burn long enough to be a shooting star

    If it was 1. 5 miles

    That's what I was thinking. I'd guess that a 1.5 meter diameter might not even burn long enough to be a shooting star

  5. Comment on Asteroid discovered only two days ago will fly by Earth closer than the moon today in ~space

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    I'm guessing the m stands for miles, not meters?

    I'm guessing the m stands for miles, not meters?

  6. Comment on What are some interesting landmarks in your neck of the woods? in ~talk

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    OMG I forgot about that site. I swear I found it around 20 years ago, though I may be confusing it with another "obscura" website that highlighted oddities around the world (the coincidence seems...

    OMG I forgot about that site. I swear I found it around 20 years ago, though I may be confusing it with another "obscura" website that highlighted oddities around the world (the coincidence seems a stretch though).

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    I've had worse curses thrown at me haha... I'll take this one.

    Alas the curse will claim you and instead you'll make all the stuff you just bought proprietary, licensed on a subscription model at an exorbitant price and you'll tweet about how stupid people are for wanting free shit.

    I've had worse curses thrown at me haha... I'll take this one.

  8. Comment on Why are so many pedestrians killed by cars in the US? in ~transport

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    Having grown up in [central] CA, lived in Houston for over a decade, and now live in New England: Pedestrians and cyclists were a thing in CA, and if one was hit it was definitely not normal. But...

    Having grown up in [central] CA, lived in Houston for over a decade, and now live in New England:
    Pedestrians and cyclists were a thing in CA, and if one was hit it was definitely not normal. But Houston? That place is whack, and it's not about the pedestrians and cyclists. The drivers are straight up crazy. We call a "Houston right/left" when you make a right/left-hand turn from the complete opposite lane, usually across at least two other lanes, and that was the norm. When we moved from there to NE, our insurance dropped by over half. I suspect that the types of drivers are the cause, not the pedestrians or cyclists (and I keep throwing cyclists in there, because I remember at least 5 different incidents happening while I lived in Houston, two of which were migrant workers using their only means of transportation to get to work, one of whom was killed as a result). And in Houston, there are a lot more large cars per capita (at least that's how it seems) than up here in NE. So I suspect that it's not that the stat is that large cars cause these incidents, but that in areas where people have piss poor driving habits also have a higher number of larger-sized vehicles... I'd be curious to see those stats.

    4 votes

  9. Comment on What's your favorite hobby? in ~hobbies

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    Mmm, oxford comma. That being said, your first sentence reminded me of the Animaniacs sketch with watching movies with George Wendt while eating beans. Back to topic: my favorite hobby is...

    Mmm, oxford comma.

    That being said, your first sentence reminded me of the Animaniacs sketch with watching movies with George Wendt while eating beans.

    Back to topic: my favorite hobby is currently roller derby.

    4 votes

  10. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    Sorry, I was going for the "philanthropy is out (unless it's utterly ridiculous)". I believe that overthrowing something that currently enshittifies would be absolutely ridiculous, as it would...

    Sorry, I was going for the "philanthropy is out (unless it's utterly ridiculous)". I believe that overthrowing something that currently enshittifies would be absolutely ridiculous, as it would completely go against everyone else's wishes... after all, that's how said enshittification gains its power >;)

  11. Comment on What are some interesting landmarks in your neck of the woods? in ~talk

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    Yeah, I likely last visited in the late 80s/early 90s as a child (I do remember the Spaghetti Factory had a train car in there, that we somehow never got seated in, but one time we went with some...

    Yeah, I likely last visited in the late 80s/early 90s as a child (I do remember the Spaghetti Factory had a train car in there, that we somehow never got seated in, but one time we went with some family friends and the son managed to kick a table football napkin at someone's arm hanging out, so we struck up a convo and got to go in and see it once).

    1 vote

  12. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    Not gonna lie, I'd divvy it out through all the FOSS/free options online to help overcome the general ongoing enshittification, or overspend Google or Amazon in said process. I'll never win the...

    Not gonna lie, I'd divvy it out through all the FOSS/free options online to help overcome the general ongoing enshittification, or overspend Google or Amazon in said process.

    I'll never win the lottery because it would literally take a miracle (because I never play), but if I did, no one would know, and lots of charities and/or online entities would benefit as aforementioned. I'm very thankful with my income and my current state, and as it is, I try to donate what I can to food banks and other "free" things of which I regularly partake.

    Edit: please note, I'm a huge piece of shit and it's not like I'm trying to be a saint or anything. But honestly the world could be a lot better if people were just less selfish and tried to leave things better than they found them, instead of just trying to get all the 1ups they can. </rant>

    2 votes

  13. Comment on What ridiculous thing would you spend billions on? in ~talk

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    Anybody want a peanut?

    Anybody want a peanut?

    1 vote

  14. Comment on What are some interesting landmarks in your neck of the woods? in ~talk

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    I'll have to make an effort to stop by there the next time I fly into SFO (usually on the way to the central valley). That looks super awesome!

    I'll have to make an effort to stop by there the next time I fly into SFO (usually on the way to the central valley). That looks super awesome!

    2 votes

  15. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    I'd be willing to shill out some money if it's what I want/need, especially on a one-purchase-covers-all basis. But I believe someone else pointed out Affinity is no longer selling things in...

    I'd be willing to shill out some money if it's what I want/need, especially on a one-purchase-covers-all basis. But I believe someone else pointed out Affinity is no longer selling things in preparation of revamping their model, and apparently it seems to be so.

  16. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    I had no idea it was originally for bulk operations. That makes way more sense.

    I had no idea it was originally for bulk operations. That makes way more sense.

  17. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    Interesting, but I shy away from anything that I can't use without the internet. I might look into it for temp stuff though.

    Interesting, but I shy away from anything that I can't use without the internet. I might look into it for temp stuff though.

  18. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one with this view on GIMP! I've tried Inkscape but it was a little too much iirc, and Krita was good but had some bugs. Maybe I'll try the latter again, as I do...

    Okay, I'm glad I'm not the only one with this view on GIMP! I've tried Inkscape but it was a little too much iirc, and Krita was good but had some bugs. Maybe I'll try the latter again, as I do not wish to use an online option.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Gimp Tutorial for Idiot? in ~comp

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    I would agree with your original posit (People who hate GIMP generally hate it not because it's the worst thing out there, but because they are used to using something else) except I often make...

    I would agree with your original posit (People who hate GIMP generally hate it not because it's the worst thing out there, but because they are used to using something else) except I often make efforts to change what I'm used to to see if there may actually be a better way. I've swapped to Linux from knowing Windows (and knowing how to make Windows do what I want and how I want it done), and at that I ditched a DE and chose i3... so very little mouse usage on my desktop. I have found it has streamlined so much of my efficiency and it makes me sad when I have to use my Windows laptop for work. I've also swapped to the dvorak keyboard, which was excessively frustrating as at the time I was easily around 120+ wpm (and it dragged me down to around 20-30) but it felt rewarding, except none of my games really kept the keybinds (and holy crow that's a mess to rebind every different game!). So I went back to qwerty (though I did get around 50 wpm on dvorak).

    I just feel that anything I want to do is not streamlined for efficiency. I'm not using it on a tablet to draw, I'm typically doing minor/menial photo editing, including resizing, cutting and pasting, and currently, keeping track of achievements in a game by highlighting certain bits on a screenshot (hence the need for rectangles), erasing the ones I complete, moving the bottom ones up to the voids I've created, simple stuff like that. But I feel that there is no simple anything. It's not that it's different, it's that it's impaired or deliberately limiting.

    4 votes

  20. Gimp Tutorial for Idiot?

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    I've been trying to use Gimp to replace other options for years now, but it feels so abstruse and severely inefficient. I used to use Photoshop around 15 years ago but have stuck with Paint.NET...

    I've been trying to use Gimp to replace other options for years now, but it feels so abstruse and severely inefficient. I used to use Photoshop around 15 years ago but have stuck with Paint.NET since - my problem is that I now use Linux and paint.net isn't available natively. I was using Pinta, but it just is like temu paint.net, and I wanted something more/better (also it has a number of bugs that can easily frustrate me and often crash/hang when doing work on larger files or for longer times).

    And for decades, people (both Windows and Linux users) have tried selling me on Gimp. I've tried over and over to get into it, but nothing made sense and it took way longer to do simple things than I thought it ought... but I'm trying for reals about 10 years since my last attempt.

    Please does anyone have a page that explains how to do things without everything being convoluted? There seem to be no ways to turn commands into keybinds or icons I can just click, and all the keyboard shortcuts I find are in relation to nothing I want to do. Ultimately, I prefer keyboard shortcuts, but I can do icons as well.

    Latest example: I want to draw a rectangle outline. Should be simple, but there is no tool to draw shapes (at least that I can find, and the tutorials online don't seem to imply the existence of one either). Okay... I have to select the rectangle select, then I have to go to the menu (Edit) and choose Stroke Selection... which pops up another menu with a ton of options. That's great and all, but in every other program I've ever used (even MS Paint!) you just click an icon and make the rectangle. If you want to alter the shape or something you right click or hold click, or maybe you can bring up a menu. But if I want to make a number of rectangles over and over? Even with keyboard shortcuts I have to make the rectangle (no issues there), then click Edit, "s" apparently takes me to the stroke menu, then enter. Bloated at best.

    So, if anyone has a good tutorial or something similar that can help me out here, or an alternative Linux-based raster graphics editor that is free, I would greatly appreciate to know of it/them. I really want to like Gimp, and I'm hoping someone here can either help me get into it or direct me elsewhere. Thanks!

    Edit: I realise I forgot to mention, I did use Krita for a bit. It felt like an in between Pinta and Paint.NET, but iirc, it crashed somewhat often or had enough bugs that I went back to Pinta.

    30 votes