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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Don’t have any data to back it up, but I’ve been using Photoshop for 25+ years, and got the clear impression that this was 100% part of marketing; from what I gathered from friends back then, pirating Photoshop was so astonishingly simple that it seemed deliberate. If you’ve got the software that’s the easiest to get hold of for kids and students, that’s what they grow up with, that’s what they know, that’s what they expect to have access to in future employment situations.

    Now that they’ve managed to pull off Subscriptions (and consequently fucking us all over by making it a legitimate business model, which instantly spread to, what, +60% of all paid software?), I’m sure they’ve calculated that the higher bar for gaining access to their software is more than adequately offset by the readings on the yard stick in their Scrooge McDuck money vault building(s).

    And still, nobody has managed to make something that can replace their bloated, shitty software for professional users.












  • There’s so much waste everywhere, let alone in tech. Being able to both “recycle” old hardware, and find legitimate use for it, should be celebrated.

    Now if only I knew what to do about my old phones … I’m pretty good at making them last, so my older ones are very old, and I can’t think of anything useful for them to do that whatever phone I currently have doesn’t do much better 🤔


  • Google EOL’d my beloved Asus C302 Chromebook, and now it runs Fedora with KDE. I’m super happy with it ❤️

    Now tentatively working on turning my 2009 Mac Mini into a Fedora server/homelab.

    So far it’s running Fedora desktop/KDE, and I’m slowly trying to figure out how to get Docker to work so I can run stuff like Audiobookshelf. If I manage to get it working, I’ll try going full Fedora Server instead of the desktop version.


  • Along with Fuckingfascists and Genocidejoe, Fuckingcapitalists seems to be quite the catchphrase for you.

    While fascism is (nauseatingly) on the rise seemingly everywhere, and capitalism is fucking most of us over, I’m not quite sure if the genocide thing refers to the US support of Israel, or something else.

    Either way, is this single-word rampage really accomplishing anything? Those three words are almost exclusively (or at least to a high degree) what you post in any given comment.

    At the very least, could you not save a pre-formatted linked snippet for each word that you could link to an article or blog post giving your position some context, maybe inform some people who don’t have all the facts?

    Yes, fascism and fascists suck. Yes, rabid capitalism and capitalists suck. Yes, genocide sucks, and Biden, while light-years better than the orange fucktard, and every single republican enabler asshat, also sucks.

    I’m just not sure that you’re living up to your full potential with these low-effort comments.