josephc

joined 4 years ago
[–] josephc@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Going from Photoshop to GIMP 3, it's just not the same. I have a lot of respect for the project, but there are so many rough edges that it's demoralizing at best.

Here's an example: in Photoshop, I select an object with the smart select brush (not available in GIMP), copy and paste it and it ends up on a new layer. I can drag the new layer around and draw on it. In GIMP, I paste a rectangle and the layer bounds are exactly locked to the paste area, so if I do something like feather the edges or try to draw on it I get a block of pixels. Without looking it up, can you tell me how to make the active layer size match the canvas size? And if I drag that layer, will it move the pixels or will it offset that layer and force me to rerun the "layer to document size" process?

Not that Adobe hasn't done a ton of Enshittification, but CS6 was pretty great for me.

[–] josephc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Perhaps the parent commenter has apps they need to run for work? I know Microsoft Authenticator isn't supported on Graphene, which is admittedly bullshit but it's a requirement if you work in the government or high security industry like utilities. If that's the case they should be given a work phone, but companies don't do that most of the time in my experience.

Or perhaps they've had a bad experience with an older version. I know that Ubuntu Mobile couldn't even make calls on a lot of devices for a while. I recently had an experience where DTMF signaling didn't work, which meant I couldn't navigate phone trees to do things like get prescriptions filled.

Point being, there are lots of real reasons folks are stuck in their predicament.

The temptation to be snarky is strong, but we risk hurting imperfect allies instead of fighting our real enemies.

[–] josephc@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Agreed. And someone on this side of the Atlantic with the teeth to bite Apple's face off when they pull shit like they did with right to repair or not allowing progressive web apps.

"You need to let end users be able to repair your devices."

"Okay we will sell a $700 repair 'kit' and each replacement part is $1000 and also they're hardware locked to the original device so you can't reuse older devices for parts. BTW you need our certification."

[–] josephc@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 months ago

I might have felt sympathy, but I'm too busy caring for people that he himself hurt. They deserve my attention more.

You don't run over a crowd of people, crash your car, and then get to lament that there are people in front of you at the emergency room.