[-] reka@beehaw.org 14 points 2 months ago

There's always been a real stick in the mud attitude with GIMP. No matter how many people cry out about it's confusing UX it's always tried to serve the existing userbase rather than design to expand its usefulness to more people. I think this is a shame and is why GIMP never achieved what Blender has.

I remember trying to use it the best part of 20 years ago when I wanted to make animated gifs. It was so hard to use it was easier to pirate photoshop/imageready. Then a year or so back I tried to use it as I had moved to being a Linux user and was kind of astonished that the UX was still so bloody hostile.

I don't think I'm a moron (though how many morons do... so take this with a pinch of salt) but trying to figure out how to do basic things like cut and paste, cropping etc. without reading documentation just goes hellishly wrong. Any time I take the time to follow a guide on how to use it I'm taken aback by how unintuitive it is and once I'm done I forget it's idiosyncrasies immediately.

I remember "gimpshop" being a thing at one point, which I never got to use but heard it used the processing of GIMP with a more photoshop like UX. Though I believe that project lapsed.

Anyway, yeah it'd be nice in a world where things like GNOME have become such beautiful UXes that projects like GIMP have the courage to revolutionise themselves.

[-] reka@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago

which is great for you, but not for anyone who has even briefly used more mainstream options

[-] reka@beehaw.org 20 points 2 months ago

The simple solution is to change it to a BSD license and call it BLIMP

[-] reka@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

I mean if you're going to go Chromium-based at least use Vivaldi... Brave-s benefits minus Brave's shithousery

[-] reka@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

"Mr. Evrart is helping me find my gun" is the funniest interaction in any video game I have ever played by an order of magnitude

[-] reka@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

As soon as we conceded "milk" for plant milks we were setting off on a long path of bullshit. If something is designed as an alternative to something it should be able to explain it's designed purpose.

[-] reka@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If you're a programmer, might I suggest the brave new world of ChatGPT enhanced search via Phind.com

Even if you're not, it's fantastic. It basically takes your input and processes it like ChatGPT but then is trained to run web searches to grab further information and uses that to progress its own internal monologue. The result is a natural language response with search engine like results down the side which are cited within the main response.

[-] reka@beehaw.org 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Where did you hear this? This isn't true. If you want google without the tracking, use StartPage (if you're using DDG this can be accessed with the !sp bang preface)

DDG uses Bing as their fallback engine but also does a lot of propitiatory indexing of its own

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/

[-] reka@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

I'd just like to commend you on your choice of language here. You're more diplomatic than most politicians! Well expressed and I support the principals you put forward.

[-] reka@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

To anyone who used Linux once upon a time and got scared off - try it again. Nowadays so much works without any config, driver support is so much better and, at least with my last year using Fedora, it's incredibly stable.

And if you get stuck, ChatGPT is so good at helping you through the experience. Also, IMO, once you spend a week or so to get used to Gnome desktop environment it's better than both windows and macos.

[-] reka@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

That's definitely not the crime here, loads of platforms AB test user reactions to changes

[-] reka@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

I’d love to see “fuck spez” become to reddit what the HD-DVD encryption code was to digg

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