NathanUp

NathanUp, 8 days ago

One of the protesters is also jewish and is drawn normally.

NathanUp, 10 days ago

Libertarian Socialists have been saying this for a century now.

NathanUp, 1 month ago

I used to run a digital press that did this. It also made the print quality worse.

NathanUp, 1 month ago

I have never had a single landlord where this isn’t the case, except in instances where they are too cheap to even hire professionals to do things that they don’t have the skill to do, and they get their dipshit son to “fix” the sink that fell clean out of the kitchen counter with a lumpy bead of clear silicone and a 1’ piece of 2x4 wedged underneath.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

Unfortunately, you’re going to have to go through the list and decide whether you need each one

NathanUp, 2 months ago

KDE’s KOrganizer supports journal entries

NathanUp, 2 months ago

Forgive me.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

I would try this thread on the EndeavourOS forum. I imagine that resetting your plasma config is mostly going through ~/.config and cleaning out anything you don’t need.

Is there any particular reason you’re sticking with X11? I get the impression that there are less issues with wayland on Plasma 6.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

Krita has CMYK, and very good non-destructive editing these days. It’s my preferred photo editor, including for the occasional magazine ad work I do. It also has great support for PS files, including smart layers, etc, plus it has layer effects, masking, filter layers, GPU accelerated canvas, and G’MIC support covers a lot of the fancier pbotoshop stuff like content-aware fill. IMO, for the workflow and interface alone, it’s leagues ahead of G***.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

Yea, it really is very good. I’m not sure what you mean by gamut tools, but there are out of gamut warnings, gamut masks, histograms, etc.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

Generally, I’ll do RAW editing in something like Darktable, and then do actual retouching work in Krita.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

I use Krita as an image editor and I prefer it.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

I’ve been playing for years; I even used to rank in the top 100 DM players. It’s an outstanding game that doesn’t get near the attention / credit it deserves. The graphics still look good, it’ll run on a potato, fast, satisfying gameplay… it’s the best.

Back when I lived in the UK, I’d play instagib on german servers that were so full and the matches so intense that you couldn’t take a step after spawning before exploding if you hadn’t learned how to move quickly yet. It became an ambition to be able to get off of the spawn point, and I began to use those intense matches to wake me up after work every day.

Eventually, when logging on during the wee hours, I’d get to chatting with one or two other players on an empty server and they’d give me tips, or show me the secret rooms and easter eggs in some of the weirder community-made maps.

I don’t play much lately, but I do run a server to give a little back for all the fun. Anyway, yea, Xonotic is great.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

My understanding is that it’s debated whether password algorithms are a good idea, but personally, I wouldn’t use them because if someone figures out one password, they can figure out the rest. Why not just use a new KeePass database on your work computer? If you don’t want to memorize a string of random characters for the master password, why not use a passphrase of random space-separated words?

NathanUp, 2 months ago

This is a bit much; I’d rather see UK-style warnings on tobacco products, and a ban on smoking in public places, including outdoors. That way those who choose to consume tobacco are free to do so (as they should be) but they are thoroughly and completely warned of the consequences, and they can’t pollute the air around them for others. There are few things worse than being stuck downwind of a smoker on a public sidewalk (especially as an ex-smoker — you never stop missing tobacco in my experience).

NathanUp, 2 months ago

This. How an advanced use case is accomplished is not a point against a system’s usability.

NathanUp, 2 months ago

(Addressing the US because I live there) Even people with “middle class” incomes are living paycheck to paycheck these days. How can you contribute to a 401k when you can’t even maintain a balance in your savings account? Let alone other investments, etc, even if you do know what you’re doing with the various financial instruments.

The cost of living is beyond the pale right now anywhere in the US where you actually stand a chance at making decent money, so your choices are to A: suffer now under severe self-imposed austerity, saving a pittance for retirement knowing that you’ll still almost certainly wind up destitute in old age, or B: enjoy your youth to the extremely limited degree that you’re able to, have the odd nice coffee or dinner with friends, and then also still become destitute in old age.

Frankly, a huge percentage of the US population are simply fucked, and given the political landscape where you are given a choice between the “do nothing” party on the center right and the “eat the poor: serfdom now” party on the far right, you can’t blame people for having absolutely zero hope. As for me, I’m extremely privileged to be a dual citizen of the UK/US so I’m going to be running back to Scotland as soon as humanly possible. Come what may, at least Scotland’s position on poor people isn’t to let them die on the streets like it is here.

I’ve long maintained that if every US citizen got to experience the basic social safety nets that even the UK provides, politicians would find themselves strung up by their intestines in short order. I think people here just really lack context as to how truly distopian this country is.

NathanUp, 3 months ago

Yes

NathanUp, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

It’s pretty easy to make at home too. I make vegan orange chicken often.

Edit: the downvotes you get the minute you mention the “v-word” are hilarious. Some of you people are so touchy about a stranger on the internet just having a nice time and eating whatever food he wants to, god damn.

NathanUp, 3 months ago

I usually buy the gardein nuggets as they have a really good texture for it. You can use the big TVP chunks. If you do, you should hydrate it in stock with a splash of vinegar, press the moisture out, sautee in lots of fat until a good sear develops, and then coat in breadcrumbs or corn-starch and fry.

I’ll do tofu as well. You have to buy good tofu though, not that mealy garbage in the plastic container full of water.

Fried cauliflower is delicious, but devoid of protein, so I never use it here as I don’t want to be hungry in an hour.

NathanUp, 3 months ago

It is the chicken that’s vegan, yes.

NathanUp, 3 months ago

These beyond chickens eat beyond insects

NathanUp, 3 months ago

Since I started using a privacy respecting browser and moved to GNU/Linux, my whole life is captchas.

NathanUp, 3 months ago

It may be because I have all history turned off, and I run a pihole + ublock origin.

NathanUp, 3 months ago

If anything, communists are less likely to blare music / scroll tiktok on speaker in public.