I’d not heard of that one, thats super cool!

I think this is my favorite visualization of the size distortion that I’ve seen!

Gimp is I think a more challenging comparison to its proprietary counterparts than the others you listed unfortunately, but I appreciate and agree with your sentiment here. Ui/ux is such a big part of where foss creative tools struggle, and while some are better than others, its a difficult thing to improve because there’s a lot less design talent in the foss world than dev talent. And ui design for large creative software is REALLY a hard design challenge, its not as though the design skill involved is trivial

Anyway, I think inkscape no longer opens a blank document anymore, at least with fresh installs. Maybe for older installs it keeps the old behavior? You should be able to switch it to a nice little welcome splash with document templates and recently opened files if you’d like :)

Happy threadiverse anniversary :)

And also Thanksgiving if you celebrate it ☺️

I use peertube.wtf and have had no issues if thats of help. There’s an artist on peertube who posts his music I’ll see if I can check what instance he’s on…

He’s on communitymedia.video :)

Hope either of these are helpful suggestions :)

I looked up ratpoison cause I couldn’t remember what it was and discovered this absolute wild ride of a use-net post that the rat poison website says inspired its name

John Dyson said:

not most) users. I attain no high in passive smoking, and only feel the anxiety. The very sad thing is to avoid the anxiety, pot users often either seek more pot, alcohol or benzo’s for temporary relief. This is a really silly vicious circle for a little short term relief. Those who think that pot is harmless are diluding themselves or even simply ignorant.

That’s because your not using the Scheme Configurable Window Manager. I found that having the proper WM while toking is extremely important. You need one that absolutely minimizes use of the rodent, and with scwm’s synthetic events, awesome key binding supports and scripting, I have a setup which allows me to do everything without pushing about the cursed rolly thing. Thank you Maciej for thinking about all of us stoners when designing SCWM.

The reason you want to avoid the rodent is that when your coding while chemically modified you will want to minimize any possible distraction or break in concentration. The slightest wavering in your attention will easily explode into a ten minute setback. If you can keep yourself on-track then I find that productivity is greatly increased, and with the properly trained mindset bug density on first pass is usually drastically decreased.

In the past when working with improper window management I have found that reaching for the rodent and lifting my eyes off my FSF emacs block cursor can trigger undesired distractions, particularly when I’m working in non-Lisp dialects (well except for mercury and Pop-11) because any idle brain wave will be spent bitching to yourself silently about the lameness of the artificial language you are forced to be thinking in presently.

It should also be noted that since SCWM is extended thru scheme, you have another advantage. Pot and lame type systems like in C/C++ do not mix. THC and Lisp dialects (or Pop-11, and sometimes mercury) are wonderful combinations provided you don’t mind spending 20% of your time rejoicing in the beauty that is a dynamic language with uniform syntax and a real goddamn macro system.

For the particularly bent crowd, I’d reccomend maybe starting out with a Luca Cardelli paper, followed by a round of OCaml hacking, and if you have another bowl to smoke and an evening to waste, follow it all up dinking around in mercury. This recipe will not result in much working code at the end of the day, but your mind will be glowing. I should warn you that only people with hard-ons for abstract mathematics and mathematical logic will really survive this course without a major headache.

Of course, this should all be done on a Debian Linux box, because you can install all of these languages with a simple apt-get command. With FreeBSD you would have to compile them all, and friggin compiling alien language implementations from France (OCaml) will break your widdle head when stoned. None of the tools I have mentioned so far are BSD licensed, and most are GPLed or Public Domain, and none of them have patents pending (except maybe if you got a fancy bong). When your done, remember, libertarians are people who think they sprung from their own asshole, the free market is a plot to exploit your sorry ass, and all the real elite programmers are wobblies.

PS: Everything but the last paragraph is a troll.

What a fucking journey lmao

Yeah?? Well you have a nice face. Loser.

(If you celebrate it I hope you have a lovely Thanksgiving ❤️)

Some context on why this is uplifting might be helpful :)

I’m not sure if you meant to reply to me or to op. I’m not in particular need of a mouse drawing 😅

I don’t know that op is either, I think they were more just trying to create a fun way for people to engage with the community by doing a small contest, but I could be mistaken

There are many places on lemmy where gen ai may be a valid way to participate in things, but I do not feel this is one of them, and I think you’d be hard pressed to find any creatives on lemmy who feel otherwise

Ai generated images aren’t art. This is a space for people who make things, not a space for algorithms designed to spit out statistically probable images in response to a description.

I don’t say this to be combative op, just wanted to clarify from the perspective of someone who does do art, and considers it a sacrosanct celebration of the human experience. Art is deeply important to us art people ❤️

I’m mega burnt out and overwhelmed trying to get ready for Thanksgiving but if I’m able maybe I’ll do a little mouse in the snow doodle, I think this idea of little prompts are a fun way to engage with eachother here, whether they’re contests are not :)

I love them so much 🥹

Thats cool as hell, thanks for posting

Really appreciate seeing folks voice this sentiment, thanks for contributing to a positive culture here :)

Sick! Great to see this kinda stuff for iPhone users!

These are beautiful! I’m obsessed with your hatching!

I’m gonna second the reccomendation to just boot it from a flash drive and try it out. Virtualization takes a ton of performance and on lots of hardware isn’t going to be a nice experience compared to actually running it without virtualization

You don’t have to make the switch, but it’ll give you a much better sense of what you might like, without dealing with lag and input delay :)

What happened with raspberry pi?

For one of my friends its just cause she has a shitload going on and enough problems to deal with without trying to figure out a new way for her computer to work and whatnot

Plus I think art stuff she uses doesn’t support linux and she found krita unsuitable for how she likes to work

I’d never seen column view but I just looked up pictures and man that seems like it’d be really helpful for my ADHD and poor working memory, its so easy to get lost trying to keep track of what level of nested folder you’re in.

And it’d be so nice to just be able to jump laterally instead of navigating up and then going to a different folder

Its a shame now I want something gnome devs will never provide. Maybe someday an independent dev will get tired and build a nice alternative. Perhaps I’ll try a different file manager and use a theme

They were wondering the technical approach not logistical.

Obviously the logistics are “more money” but given that much about steam is devices is open, they were wondering what technical approach may have been taken, and whether it might be open and possible to piggyback off of.