@coolboymew@kaia Ghostwire Tokyo is free to keep on Epic Games Store right now and it's both a great time-sink and cool virtual tourism even if you aren't particularly thrilled by the gameplay (big detailed nighttime Tokyo game world).
@kimlockhartga@kaia I was googling to find this "Jeff" reporter (apparently it's a certain Jeff Schogol) and found the publication he's writing for, a Veteran-focused news website called "Task & Purpose" and, ngl, I kind of want to subscribe to their RSS feed after seeing their current front page
@kaia@silhouette@mia The era of resume-keyword-industry-standard-tool is ending I think. Linux is still a niche market, on Windows/Mac, there is now fierce competition even for highly specialized image editors such as 2D animation software with 2D rigging features, and for more generic stuff the market is huge.
We're finally going back to skillset-and-adaptability over tool-monkey (or everybody who isn't at wizard celebrity level will become a genAI prompt monkey, if you buy into that vision of the future).
Anyway, my point is, if you're dissatisfied with your tools, there's many tools out there now, including tools that you pay money for and get treated like a customer (even on Linux).
@kaia@mia there's so many image editors now, including ones that run on Linux (including browser-based SaaS) that not even Wikipedia has a comprehensive list anymore, it's crazy. Have you heard of LazPaint, Pinta, Paintstorm or Pixlr?
I remember learning about Paintstorm through a banner ad on a Furry Art site a year ago or so, lol.
@kaiatimeanddate.com is pretty reasonable (when you turn off ads but use Firefox with the default enhanced protection enabled, you won't see any 99% of the time) and they have a reasonably priced supporter membershit for heavy users who want to contribute keeping the site that way
@Moon@cell@mischievoustomato@theorytoe The cache directories are my biggest pet peeve with electron apps, it's literally like using a separate portable Google Chrome for each website you visit, and for some reason 80% of those portable Google Chromes have the clear history button disabled, too.
The fuckers also slow down and bloat up file-based backup jobs like crazy.
@Moon@mischievoustomato@cell@theorytoe Electron apps are the present equivalent of a similar scourge that plagued the PCs of the mid-00s in certain professional and business environments, which was running several Java applications with Swing UIs that all shipped their own Java runtime.
The fallout was exactly the same, but even worse than today because CPUs were slower, RAM was more expensive and also slower, and mass storage was a LOT slower:
- Often sluggish UI experience compared to native toolkits - Huge cache directories littered all over the user's harddisk, wasting space - Security issues of the runtime only getting patched if/when the app itself was updated and bothered with updating the runtime as well - Sometimes haphazard integration with the OS / desktop
@Moon@i@pomstan To be fair, what's more military in general and U.S. Air Force specifically than stuffing a pilot into a minimum viable product and wish them godspeed
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