A while back I went through the tutorials for Inkscape and was fairly impressed.
Now that I sat down to draw some box-and-arrow data structure diagrams, I found that (a) the knowledge had fallen out of my head and (b) it was nearly impossible to figure out how to do things by playing with the program. I probably spent the better part of an hour trying to center text vertically within a box. A DuckDuckGo search was useless, because I kept getting videos explaining how to do much fancier things like getting text to lie along a curve. The only source that explained the procedure was, surprisingly, ChatGPT.
Clearly this is far too powerful a tool for my task -- like slicing butter with a chainsaw.
I looked for open source alternatives and alternativeto.net reminded me of draw.io. I had used this before, but been annoyed that it insisted on saving things within Google drive and manually drilling through my directory structure each time. Fortunately, there is now a standalone desktop app that lets me save things locally. It feels much friendlier -- poking around for a few seconds tends to find what I need.
@bmaxv The final project for the class is a (single-player against an AI opponent) Scrabble game. I'd want the simplest thing that can support that. Basically just drawing colored shapes and text on the screen and recognizing mouse clicks and keypresses.
$ snap info discord
name: discord
summary: Chat for Communities and Friends
publisher: Snapcrafters✪
store-url: https://snapcraft.io/discord
contact: https://github.com//snapcrafters/discord/issues
license: Proprietary
description: |
Discord is the easiest way to communicate over voice, video, and text.
Chat, hang out, and stay close with your friends and communities.
Snaps are confined, as such Discord may be unable to perform some of the
tasks it typically does when unconfined. This may result in the system log
getting spammed with apparmor errors. Granting access to the system-observe
interface when in the snap will enable the features, and thus reduce the
logging.
snap connect discord:system-observe
Authors
This snap is maintained by the Snapcrafters community, and is not
necessarily endorsed or officially maintained by the upstream developers.
commands:
The #SavageWorlds Last Parsec: Eris Beta-V adventure at one point has something called "The Quincunx", comprising five objects. There's a picture of it on the map.
Are the objects arranged in a quincunx? No, they are not.