That travel router looks good. Will you also be using it to connect to the internet using a phone hotspot or just using it for a local network?

I’d like to design a similar off-grid system. What do you have in mind for mobile wifi router and cellular signal booster?

You could try Jami. It’s peer to peer, so essentially any participants are self-hosting it. Its E2E encrypted, supports group messaging, voice and video calling, has easily ‘linkable’ mobile and desktop apps for all platforms and requires no email address or phone number to use. It’s also the only messenger I’m aware of which is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. I highly recommend it 👌

I agree that they are effective programs for getting work done. There are some drawbacks in a professional setting though, the biggest being the data scraping that has been introduced. It’s hard to explain to clients that any licensing of their images has been violated before it has even been applied. Either Adobe are going to get away with exactly the kind of IP infringements that they are so against when it comes to their own work, or they’re lining up a buggerload of legal problems for themselves further down the line.

Then there’s the price-gouging that they’ve gotten into with their online subscription model and instability on some hardware.

How to trust them?

For people starting a new business in a creative industry I don’t think Adobe is the obvious choice that it once was.

I work with print a lot too. Very interested in the imminent release of GIMP 3.0 with it’s colour upgrades.

“Even a blind pig can find an acorn every once in a while.”

Tux Paint is feckin awesome. Not even photoshop has sound effects when you use a tool.

File > overwrite

Bind it to Ctrl+s if you want.

It only saves as an xcf project if you choose save instead of overwrite.

1. File > overwrite yourimage.jpeg

2. Ctrl+Q

That’s 2 mouse clicks and one keyboard shortcut.

You can even make number 1 keyboard shortcut if you want. How is that any more laborious than photoshop?

almost anything else

You mean photoshop right?

I totally agree! I wish I could contribute more to these things that I use, but it also (and maybe more importantly) makes me want to be more free and generous with all the things I can do. Looking at how most things are today, superficially it seems far-fetched to imagine economies of generosity but actually I think it’s got a lot of power to perpetuate itself.

People don’t mention it much but I think it’s actually the most powerful thing about Linux (and open source more broadly) that it’s free to use. It doesn’t matter if you’re down on your luck, were born in a poor nation through no fault of your own, or are working class and getting crushed by the capitalist economy. It’s a leveller and, in my view, represents power, resilience and dignity in solidarity. It’s literally one of the few important things left in the world that we have like that.

Hoink me with your yimyam flutings.

Wait until you see how people talk about closed source projects they have paid for.

Same thing, except you will owe them something.

lol windows

I’m actually thinking of pranking my girlfriend some time by editing her bash aliases so that:

alias update=‘sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && hollywood’

What’s the connection? I thought Wilber was the logo?

At least they need to keep you conscious and able to speak if its a password tho. Small mercies.

The fact that it looks like something from a 90s Judge Dredd comic and is a funny plasticcy colour. I would have totally gone for it when I was 9 though.