Adderbox76

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 15 points 4 hours ago

JD Vance was forced in as the Trump VP pick by the Heritage Foundation so that when Trump either dies or stops cooperating with them on Project 2025, they already have a man in place to take over. And that's likely the reason for the assassination attempts.

If Trump dies, they get Vance (a true believer...unlike Trump who just wants the power to stay out of prison) at the top of the ticket.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Great, even a damn Tardigrade is more musically talented then me...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Are you even a Linux user if you don't randomly wonder what operating system the person in front of you in traffic prefers? It's a good thing that this person says "wonder no more."

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 30 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

The rational person in me knows that IQ as a metric of intelligence has long since been proven to be bullshit pseudoscience.

But the anti-american in me is just going to turn that part of my brain off and chuckle for a few moments...

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 9 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Is that what that is?! It just randomly started happening and I thought an update screwed up my compositor.

So with that question answered, how the hell do I turn it off, because it's annoying as hell.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suspect X/Twitter will be a long distant memory well before these folks would be grandparents.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I kind of don't want to know, because the real answer would probably be terrifying.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

Is it that Britons are more likely to doubt their health, or is it that Americans are pathologically afraid to be sick because it can bankrupt them, so they tend to overestimate their health in order to not have to go to the doctor.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

imagine a high-level executive telling the art department to come up with something cool for the next product line. He fires an email off, waits for the result, maybe sends a couple notes back. When he unveils the product, he says “look how creative and artistic I am.”

The Steve Jobs business management course^tm^

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Because the entire western world seemingly has to tip toe around Israel and let them get away with whatever they want because of some collective shame and empathy Europe and America still feel for something that happened before most people in Israel today were ever born...

The holocaust was bad...yeah. But the fact that that tragedy somehow gives the state of Israel an unlimited pass in perpetuity to be assholes is just wrong.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

When you write a prompt into midjourney or any other image generator, nothing get's "made", simply aggregated from datasets; a pixel from here, a pixel from there. An eye that is eerily similar to this image, a fold of a cloth that is taken almost exactly from a similar painting in it's dataset.

All (or most) of those datasets are taken from the work of actual artists, without attribution or pay because for years we all got suckered in to posting our work online.

Now if you...as an artist...wanted to make a piece of art by cutting out parts of various paintings using something like photoshop, that's a legitimate claim to art. But if you write three sentances into a text box and let the computer do that aggregating for you...you're not an artist.

Even IF we take it to the extreme and say that AI art IS in fact art, you're still not the artist, any more so than I would be if I gave a painter a description of what I wanted and got him to paint it for me. You're the person procuring the piece, nothing more.

 

This is a relatively new issue, although I don't recall any recent updates that would have caused it.

When I plug in a USB stick or other device, the disk and device manager pops up twice; one is the normal one away from the edge of the screen, it goes away after about five seconds (like it should)

The second, behind it, is tucked up right against the edge of the screen and does not go away until I trigger and then minimize my application launcher.

Any ideas? I'm running Wayland because of the Maalit keyboard. Haven't tried to see if it duplicates it with X11.

 

Just a super quick question about helping to update the map locations.

Between StreetComplete and Organic Maps, which is faster for submitting recommended changes to the OSM team in regards to things like business hours, etc...

 

I can't even imagine writing long form on a touch keyboard. But with a lot of people eschewing laptops/desktops for their mobile devices, it's really just a matter of time.

edited: Missed a "T" in the title.

 
 

I finally pulled the trigger on replacing my ChromeOS completely with Manjaro using the Mrchromebox script. Other than some glitching getting the audio to work correctly, everything runs great.

For the first two years I had this chromebook (Asus 433 flip) I thought that it wasn't worth the risk and that running the debian container via Crostini was plenty good enough.

Well it turns out that:

  • A. No...it wasn't much of a risk at all. It was actually really smooth, including disconnecting the battery to disable the hardware write protect. I honestly don't know what I was worried about. and

  • B. I may have thought Crostini was good enough. But man oh man...it's a night and day difference having Linux running natively on this old girl rather than through a container that had to boot up every time I use the first linux app of the day.

Anyway. Just wanted to share. Been using Manjaro on pretty much all of my computers for years, and now I can take the "pretty much" away and just say "all of them."

 

So....I updated my Manjaro to Plasma 6. Any chance that Minimal Menu (or something similar) exists?

I was not happy to find it gone. It's been a part of my system for so long that I honestly just forgot it wasn't default.

Now it doesn't even show up in the widget search and I'm honestly not sure I can live without it, largely because I can choose to centre it in the display on launch rather than having to choose either a) full-screen or b) right above the icon.

I can't even describe how upsetting it was to reboot after the update....

 

...but its robot designs were well ahead of the curve for the time.

 

Anyone having a recent segmentation fault with GIMP 2.10.36 when closing a file without saving changes, the issue has been fixed and will be merged into the next point release. 2.10.38.

More info here: (scroll to bottom) https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/10785

 

Putting this out into the community for anyone who needs it.

When I was first learning video editing, I had trouble finding good narrative content to practice with. There was plenty of stock footage, etc... but nothing scripted where you could craft a scene between two characters.

Cinestudy is the best for that. In fact I'm using footage from there for a book that I've been working on about narrative editing in Kdenlive.

https://cinestudy.org/

 

One of the main things that I have been missing in Lemmy since moving over from the other site has been the myriad communities for the various bits of FOSS software I use on a regular basis.

Any any given day, I'll use Kdenlive, LibreOffice, Blender, Gimp and Scribus in the course of getting work done both personally and professionally, and I kept waiting for the day when I wouldn't have to go back to the other site to keep up to date with them.

While some (Blender) eventually got communities in the fediverse of their own, few are very active. So I felt that I should at least try to create my own in the hopes that it draws some activity.

So if you're joining because of a shared love of FOSS creative software, welcome. I'm hoping to post news and other articles from around the web, as well as being a place for questions and advice from user to user.

Maybe it'll be just as dead as all the others. But I hope not.

 

The tl;dr bot that pops up on every link to an article on Lemmy is depriving those websites of clicks, which deprives them of ad revenue.

The only thing that will accomplish is forcing those websites to do the very thing that we rail about; replacing their writers with crappy A.I because they can't afford to pay for actual content.

We rail against the enshitification of the internet, but when there's a legitimate way to fight back by giving these websites a page view/read/click etc... so that they can attract advertisers, we would rather have a bot summarize it for us, giving them nothing.

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