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bowreality

@bowreality@mstdn.ca

Bavarian/Canadian, perennial learner and wannabe ninja ...live from the prairies! (she/her)

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bowreality, to fediverse
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Is there a alternative on ?

tantramar, to random
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As much as I like croissants — and I really like 🥐🥐 — the best part is how baking* them makes the house smell amazing for the rest of the day.

*from frozen; I’m not fancy

bowreality,
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@tantramar Are you getting the big Costco box?

KissAnne, to GYM
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At the . feels super hard but woman's got to do what woman's got to do.

It seems that my reflection is on the mirror of the gym

bowreality,
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@KissAnne Rock on 💪

StillIRise1963, to random
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I want there to be professionals in all businesses. I want people to know what they’re doing and provide help when a customer seeks services. People become professionals with proper training, time and a growing wage commensurate with growing responsibility and knowledge, benefits and job security. Whether one is a waiter, sells shoes, cars or is a lawyer, doctor or engineer is immaterial.

bowreality,
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@StillIRise1963 It used to be the case! At least in Europe when my parents were young. E.g. retail staff were specialized in what they were selling. And I had a friend in my late teens who was in retail. While they moved her throughout the department store during her training she specialized in lingerie. I wish we would still do that.

vintprox, (edited ) to opensource
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Oooh, has the node graph functionality, which allows you to compose vector objects from the primitives like fill, stroke, transform and live filters in a visual manner!

Node graph interface and filters both give me this nice break-out I needed after LPEs in . Don't get me wrong: that program is THE legend, developers are masters of vectors, and it's purely native Gtk toolkit on which application is built. Right now, their priority is CMYK support, so follow if you're into printing.

I just love to experiment with shiny new software that's , especially one that uses and to its advantage.

Watch 'em apply circular repeat filter on a mere line to produce this fun sparkle effect. (It is Graphite's official channel, by the way. Wish they were on Mastodon?)

https://youtu.be/7gjUhl_3X10

bowreality,
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@vintprox I took a look yesterday at graphite but it seems my monitor is too small? It cuts some off? Also I couldn’t find resizing objects …

bowreality,
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@vintprox Hm I can’t remember what exactly it cut off but it was icons. I launched it again and it seems fine now. Not sure what happened there. I am on a fairly new Macbook so I didn’t think resolution would be an issue. Regarding scaling I would need specific measurements in cm and mm actually. Affinity has a transform menu that lets me set height and weight etc. I might just not have found that?

bowreality,
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@vintprox I just found the transform menu but it’s only pixel? Can I switch that to cm/mm?
That also led me to the “cut off” issue that I ran into. I’ll attach screenshots. I can move out the side as you mentioned but then it cuts the top and even the file menus. I haven’t found the sweet spot that doesn’t cut off the right while keeping the top ok. Browser is Safari 17.3 btw.

Screenshot with highlighting the top menus cut off

KissAnne, to random
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Dell can stay remote — but they're not going to get promoted. I think this is a reputation damage among potential . What do you think? 🤔
https://www.businessinsider.com/dell-remote-workers-promotion-return-office-push-flexible-work-2024-3?r=US&IR=T

bowreality,
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@KissAnne It’s ridiculous.

airwhale, to affinity
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On the topic of and , there is a new statement out today. Registered users probably got the email as well.

For now, I suggest we extend the Affinity team our continued support and love, while holding them to their pledge. They have done right by the graphics community this far, and deserve the benefit of doubt. We'll be watching them closely.

I would have been more at ease if it was Affinity buying Canva though 🙂

Full text here:
https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/press/newsroom/affinity-and-canva-pledge/

bowreality,
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@carondolet @airwhale Not sure if I agree. The message yesterday and the video were so bad it sent the community in a tail spin. I doubt they were predicting the backlash (hence not smart). Otherwise they would have sent today’s statement in the message yesterday. This is purely a reaction to the outcry yesterday. Can’t say I believe them. Had they come out with that yesterday in the initial message maybe … now? Ehhh

tantramar, to random
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Anyone been watching The New Look on AppleTV+?

bowreality,
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@tantramar Not yet. Is it good?

craiggrannell, to random
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Serif/Affinity. No layoffs. Affinity brand stays. Team remains in UK. No change to business model “at this time”.

Which sounds promising. But let’s come back to this in a year and then two years and see if that’s still the case, eh?

Also gotta love “Why has Serif decided to sell to Canva?” in the FAQ. I mean, surely a big chunk of that was money. But no-one would dare say it!

From: @Stocker_jp
https://mstdn.jp/

bowreality,
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@craiggrannell @Stocker_jp all these statements are the same. And they stick with it for a year. Then all bets are off and they go to shit.

doctormo, to affinity
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It's interesting that with being acquired by users respond with their hope that it doesn't now enshitify.

And I kind of feel: People know. They know that these companies are unsafe stewards of their work tools. But invest in that system regardless.

Not sure how to convince people to invest in open source instead so this kind of thing can't happen. Not just hope won't, but structurally can't happen.

bowreality,
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@doctormo So now is a good time to tell us what is a good (!!!) open source alternative to the Affinity suite ??

bowreality,
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@doctormo I have tried Inkscape a while ago and it can’t hold a candle to Affinity Designer. I’ll check out Krita but even for my little use I haven’t seen anything comparable to AD.

bowreality,
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@doctormo @codefolio Can’t say we didn’t put our hands into our pockets when we went with Affinity which is a paid software. That interface clearly seems to work for a lot of people otherwise it wouldn’t be such an outcry now. Also, putting money into open source doesn’t mean the programmers don’t sell to Canva next year and we are right where we are now.

schultzter, to threads
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So can we follow accounts here?

bowreality,
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@chad @StephBoragina I wonder if @mike ‘s instance is blocked too? That should be about 95% of Canada no?

tantramar, to random
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definitely won’t be visiting any Cineplexes any more. https://mstdn.ca/@ckkellymartin/112157599640127876

bowreality,
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@tantramar Yup not going to happen. I haven’t been to the movies in ages but that definitely will not make me go back

masukomi, (edited ) to drawing
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A while ago someone left a nice comment about a sketch I shared from my Maker's notebook. I don't remember which sketch, BUT I just reordered some supplies from JetPens, and one of the things I reordered was the ruler that makes creating drawings like these trivial.

It's this $2.30 ruler: https://www.jetpens.com/Raymay-Easy-to-See-Grid-Ruler-15-cm/pd/15001
The blue shaded grid is the secret sauce.

Coincidentally Adam Savage noted how valuable he found his similar ruler of his on a recent Tested build episode.

bowreality,
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@masukomi Check out Leuchtturm. I am a big fan of their B5 sized softcover notebooks.

bowreality,
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@masukomi Interesting. Maybe I need to try Rhodia then! I love Leuchtturm but maybe Rhodia is even better.

bowreality,
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@masukomi Nice! I definitely will check it out. Leuchtturm has thicker paper now too but it gets too heavy for hauling around. I like the normal paper in a softcover best right now. I use a pencil on the go

bowreality,
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@masukomi Good info thank you! My drawings are very rough and mostly to capture ideas of stuff I see or ideas I come up with on my commute. I am bad at sketching but I need always some notebook to process. Lots of notes too that go with sketches.

stfn, to random
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In today's cyberdystopian news, a company making wheelchairs is locking "premium features" like cruise control behind a paywall. WHEELCHAIRS WITH PAYWALLS

https://hackaday.com/2024/03/09/the-insurance-buys-the-wheelchair-but-not-the-app-to-run-it/

bowreality,
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@stfn Sounds like it’s prime time for a hacking and pirating comeback. We need to take back control

erin, to random
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Client 1: *cough cough cough *

….

Client 1: cough cough cough

Client 2: …. I gave him my nasty cold

Me: 😷😬

I’m bringing my portable air purifier tomorrow.

bowreality,
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@erin Yikes. The new “normal”

bowreality,
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@erin They can’t be inconvenienced. Not for the sake (health) of others.

bowreality, to animals
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That’s what you get for getting off the chair

tantramar, to random
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now that the latest time change is behind us, the clock in my car is only off by, like, half an hour or something (from that time they disconnected it at the mechanic’s last year).

bowreality,
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@tantramar Or it might be 31 minutes behind? I am so confused when the time change happens. The clock won’t help either way.

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