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Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:37 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫
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Got a timestamped link?

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  R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:38 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
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  This is kinda long, but he does humorously ridicule some of blender's less user-friendly interface decisions:
  https://yewtu.be/watch?v=1qSTcxt2t74
  (As an expert blenderer that loves the program)
  
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  R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:39 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
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  Ah, sounds like #Blender 😂
  
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  Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:39 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫
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  Perhaps, I haven't used blender much. :)
  
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  R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:41 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
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  "the interface is pretty dated"
  *glowers in "I used a GUI in 1984, give me an outdated interface any day instead of the technicolor vomit I'm forced to use every day now"
  😂
  
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  Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:41 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫
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  I mean… it's really powerful if you know exactly what you're doing. And the documentation to figure out what you're doing mostly consists of forum posts from 2005. I spent three hours manually adding crop lines before discovering a built-in option hidden in some submenus to do it for me.
  
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  Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:42 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫
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  I started out by using Micro$oft Publisher. Now I've been using Scribus, but looking for a better option, since the interface is pretty dated. I've been investigating SILE today, which is inspired by TeX and seems like it could be really up my alley.
  
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  R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:43 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
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  What tools do you use? Just raw HTML & CSS? Can you actually do real page layout with that now? You couldn't really do that not too many years ago.
  
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  Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:44 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫
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  Well, both kinda. But I meant layout editing for printed media. I've done it for a couple of my highschool's literary magazines and like to typeset/layout my own writing as a way to relax.
  
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  R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:45 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
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  How do you do layout editing? Or do you mean for the web?
  In my day (egad, I better hike my trousers up to my chest) Aldus Pagemaker was the hot tool for page layout. Desktop Publishing was *the* killer app for the Macintosh in the 90s. It sustained the company after all the eduction money from Apple ][s slowly trickled out.
  
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  Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:46 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫
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  I'm astonished that with all my interest in layout editing it's taken me this long to get into installing fonts.
  
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  R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd: (rl_dane@fosstodon.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:47 JST R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:
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  Dude, if you had told me 30 years ago you had a gigabyte of fonts, in woulda swooned.
  Installing new fonts was one of the coolest things to do on a computer in 1991
  
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  Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫 (benjaminhollon@lowkey.zone)'s status on Saturday, 26-Aug-2023 13:21:48 JST Benjamin Hollon 🇺🇸🇲🇾🇮🇳🇦🇫
  
  I just installed the google-fonts package on nixos. Wow. A gigabyte of fonts.
  I'm trying not to go mad with power.
  
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