Crushes are fun, but we romanticize the person into someone they’re not.

This. So much this. I fell in this trap a few times and even though I overcame the fear of asking out and the other side accepted and we dated a few times, eventually my disappointment with the difference between what I imagined the person would be vs how the person actually is would kick in and I would start blaming the other person and/or start criticizing the other person.

I now realize that I was trying to force the other person into my personal view of “how that person should be” and that was very unfair to them but I didn’t realize what I was doing while doing it.

AI companies need to stop scrapping from 4chan

The ideal situation would be for good guys from both sides to take up on arms and overthrow their own governments to make this cycle stop, but then something will happen that they will come to hate each other again and the cycle will continue.

He would only escape if he was a presidential candidate or a multi billionaire.

Since he is neither and he works on US soil, then the law came after him. You would cave in, if in similar circumstances.

Thanks.

In the meanwhile I discovered PhotoGIMP, which helps with getting basic stuff done through GIMP and addresses some points around image and layer selection and manipulation that used to be so confusing with GIMP.

Canon EOS 40D - oldie but goodie, hobby, landscape, events and some portraiture

I heard the argument on the link you shared before but I can’t figure out what “appropriate controls” would look like. That too sounds quite hand-wavy.

Need to remember that Microsoft was forced by regulators overseas to allow ring 0 third party software as part of antitrust proceedings. But the notion that antivirus software companies must be allowed to exist (instead of making the kernel infection proof) is also ridiculous

Ugh I can’t wrap my mind around how weird and unintuitive GIMP feels to use

Some people see guilds as a form of worker union providing job protection but they are also oligopolies for business owners, resulting in higher price for goods and less employment opportunities overall due to the “you got to be a member so you can do business” aspect of it

Just writing to say that I admire your tenacity

using systemd instead of rm -Rf is not the Unix way!

These days the unique use case X was designed for is very, very niche. For everyone else, Wayland is the way to go.

Needs an achievement system

PLUMBERS JACKPOT - you clogged the toilet more than 10 consecutive times

FIBER AT HOME - no loose stools for a whole month

LIKE CLOCKWORK - you are super regular for a whole month

METEOR EXTINCTION - you had a poop that was more than 1% of your body weight

So… a small hydraulic press?

In principle yes but I never managed to shatter or break a disc platter… But then I never had a sledgehammer