I’m not sure which distro would work with your laptop. I would suggest experimenting with live USB images. Maybe using something like Ventoy which enables you to try out multiple live images from one USB stick. But as far as applications go:
GIMP is native to Linux and should work fine. You might also want to give Krita and Inkscape a whirl. Also, massive props for ditching Adobe. I hate that company as much as it hates their customers.
Blender works on linux.
So does Davinci. Allegedly. Haven’t used it, but their website says Linux support is available.
I don’t code so, um, no idea. Sorry. Hopefully someone else will weigh in.
Good news, Linux has working file explorers!
No ads, at least for the most part. Ubuntu had Amazon’s search integrated into their search bar a while back, which caused quite a kerfuffle. Later, they added a toggle to turn this off, but this was years ago. Might want to check just in case.
Oh wow, Razer was selling masks? Seriously? That’s wild, I must’ve missed that completely. What’s even wilder is that a bunch of people apparently decided that their best option for respiratory filters is, of all things, a gaming company. And one with a shaky QC history at that.
Alternate title: CEO with no background in computer science and surface level knowledge of AI weighs in on latest industry buzzword and makes wild predictions.
And vice versa. Somebody’s gonna get the Cart Narcs eventually. I understand what he’s trying to do, but when you get down to brass tacks, the guy is harrassing people. And filming them without consent, too.
Agent Sebastian, as he calls himself, doesn’t just point out the misplaced cart and slap a magnetic sticker on the offender’s car, oh no. In multiple instances he actively escalated the situation for no good reasons, except for the lulz, I guess, and in some videos, he even kept following the offenders. When he was visiting Australia, he even followed them to their fucking home!
Now, Sebastian was quoted as saying that the group’s mission is to insure public decency, but “decent” is not the word I would use to describe his behaviour.
That… doesn’t look easy. Or at least, I imagine this video would look intimidating to non-tech savvy users. I consider myself at least a little tech savvy and I’m like 80% sure I would forget to insert that transparent sheet thingy under the battery. I’m guessing it’s insulation?
Anyway, what used to be the norm was pulling off the back cover and then remove the battery with your fingernail. No tools required. Now a vast majority of phones are glued together, all under the pretext of making the phone more thin.
What irks me is that companies still make removable batteries, but they are getting harder and harder to find. In fact, Samsung itself has XCover line of phones that have easily accessible batteries. How easy? This easy:
We’ll just have to wait and see, I guess. People didn’t jump ship when Windows 8 became the norm (which didn’t last long, thankfully), so I’m not expecting the needle to move much over a feature most users will never even know exists. A man can dream, though.
Hello. I’m looking for a more private (for obicous reasons) and fast discord client for android, since the app is terrible and preforms terribly on my relatively old phone. I can’t change to something like matrix/signal, since I can’t convert other people.
For similar reasons to your own, I tried a few different Discord frontends a while back so I could chat with one of my friends who lives abroad. I never found a winner. They either wouldn’t connect or would be missing tons of features (for example: one of them only let you watch the chat, not participate in it). I also seem to remember reading somewhere that Discord is pretty aggressive when it comes to third party apps. It’s their app or nothing. You might have better luck than I did, but I wouldn’t get my hopes up.
And as others have mentioned, if you’re looking for privacy, Discord ain’t it. Sorry I couldn’t give you a more helpful response.
For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs....
So glad this is gaining traction. I like playing older games from time to time and I am NOT down with capricious companies killing games just because they decided it doesn’t make financial sense to patch out their DRM. The Crew was sold as a good, not a service. They should either patch out the online requirement or give users their money back.
I can imagine the prospect not being attractive to Ubisoft, but who cares about Ubisoft anyway.
Has anyone seen Behind the Curve? Most of these flat earth people seem to possess some level of critical thinking, just… not enough. That, or their pride or obstinacy get in the way. At the end of the documentary, a team of flat-earthers perform an actual, well thought out experiment. It’s… well, just watch.
Best part? Immediately after this, they discard the results of the experiment saying the premise was faulty. Somehow.
On the contrary! I absolutely loathe how bloated webpages have become over the last few decades, so it’s very refreshing and laudable to see a webpage that tries to keep itself as small as possible.
Kinky. But no, not necessarily. You could say that one of them is the actual person and the other “person” is just the first person’s shadow. It’s a stretch, but it’s the best I’ve got.
Windows is hell, i need to do something
Yo linux team, i would love some advice....
Nintendo makes first Switch 2 announcement (www.eurogamer.net)
Gaming firm Razer ordered to pay over US$1.1 million in US for advertising Zephyr mask as N95-grade (www.channelnewsasia.com)
Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO (www.techspot.com)
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' (www.404media.co)
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How To Replace Smart Phone Battery in 2014, They Used to be So Easy (youtu.be)
Microsoft will now urge you to ditch local accounts on Windows 10 (www.xda-developers.com)
Opensource/foss Discord frontend
Hello. I’m looking for a more private (for obicous reasons) and fast discord client for android, since the app is terrible and preforms terribly on my relatively old phone. I can’t change to something like matrix/signal, since I can’t convert other people.
List of every game trailer from The Triple-i Initiative
For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs....
Pirates ask EU Commission to look into killing of video games (www.patrick-breyer.de)
Is there a specific religious term for the belief "God exists and he is evil"?
I am not an atheist, I genuinely believe that God exists and he is evil, like a toddler who fries little ants with a lens.
Microsoft 365? (lemmy.ananace.dev)
was this not allowed before? (slrpnk.net)
The struggle is real (lemmy.world)
Joker (2019) (lemmy.world)
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Figuring things out (lemmy.world)
All roads (lemmy.ca)
Modern web bloat means some pages load 21MB of data - entry-level phones can't run some simple web pages, and some sites are harder to render than PUBG (www.tomshardware.com)
Phytagoras (file.coffee)