laurent

Trying to make things that are useful, ethical, and pretty.

💖 #opensource #web #plaintext #gnome #fedora #elementaryOS #linux

🎮 #indiegame #valheim

🌿 #terrarium #ecosphere

🇫🇷 He/him

Homepage: https://lobau.io
Currently building: https://volu.dev
Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/lobau
Pronouns: he/him

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2024-10-14 17:18:34

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wow 💚

2024-08-16 23:40:23

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❤️

2024-07-26 01:15:27

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deal! 🎉🥳 Tobias or Cas, do you have a paypal / venmo / any other way to transfer cash?

2024-07-25 22:36:15

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Happy to contribute up to half of that amount (if anybody feels like matching the contribution :D), just to see it exist, and because it would be a cool showcase for the project.
Now of course if it's really cool I would have to buy my own 😄🥲

2024-07-25 20:47:58

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Footing the whole bill might be a bit much (those things are expensive), but I'm happy to contribute $200 if you find a device to test on. I'm dead serious!

2024-07-25 19:10:21

Honestly, I would main a Galaxy Z Fold (or similar large foldable phone) if it ran Gnome mobile. Sounds like the perfect device.

2024-07-08 23:30:00

Sounds like the AI bubble is finally bursting a little https://www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

2024-07-08 20:13:50

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I was working on macOS when we made the switch to Helvetica Neue.
We all really wanted to switch from Lucida Grande to another humanist font. We tested a custom Frutiger Neue (macOS was gorgeous in it)
But some people (the loud ones) decided to go with a terribly kerned grotesque instead. We all know how it went lol

2024-07-08 19:49:14

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If anybody is curious about the 2 typefaces I'm talking about:
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/752/594/157/778/132/original/62b9331d2fb8f48b.png

2024-07-08 19:44:31

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I can already imagine https://thisweek.gnome.org/ read like a WWDC session recap lol

2024-07-08 19:42:40

I totally understand the need to switch to a more modern and well maintained font, but I'm still sad Gnome wants to look a lot more like macOS.
I will miss Gnome having a unique and recognizable typographic voice.

2024-06-29 17:29:34

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for now it is yeah. The game is still missing one biome, the Deep North, and then the map will be complete. I would love to be able to visit the yggdrasil's roots above tho!

2024-06-26 23:06:47

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yeah I feel you. I think some people on there are still very attached to the audience they built in the last decade or so.

2024-06-26 22:57:12

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I'm trying, but honestly I've encounter this sentiment many times before (without engaging, silly me to do so, I should know better). Will give it a couple of days and see if I feel like being online again lol
Thanks for the empathy 💙

2024-06-26 22:44:23

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feel free to check some of the replies I get.

2024-06-26 19:52:27

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I imagine a relatively powerful Linux phone in your pocket, with the ability to just plug the glasses into it and get full multi-monitor desktop setup whenever. Very exciting.

2024-06-26 17:31:14

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IDK, I like the idea of a consortium deciding on global standards, that anybody can use and that nobody controls. Maybe it's just me.

2024-06-26 08:04:17

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Yeah we use it and it's pretty great. They even have their own video call service so you can avoid using zoom, with a nice and clean interface

2024-06-26 06:56:25

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@npub1qnu…hzwk it's unfortunately the only global, standard-based app platform we have, with all these flaws. Every other development platform is either locked to an OS, a brand, a CPU architecture, a programming language, fees, a country, or all of the above..

2024-06-25 18:21:06

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@npub1mvj…r582 you like to use the keyboard, it's awesome. I love to use a mouse. I have an ergonomic, vertical mouse, and this is my primary source of interaction with my computer.
When you say "the system should be primarily keyboard driven" you make a sweeping statement on how people should use computers and what developrlers should be focused on.
I personally think you should get used to the mouse, beyond the act of clicking on things.

2024-06-25 17:44:14

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@npub1mvj…r582 sooo, we shouldn't care to build interfaces for people who primarily use a mouse? Designers? Illustrators? Architects?
Developers are always making things hard to use with a mouse because they don't like taking their hands off the keyboard 😤

2024-06-25 16:59:57

a voté

2024-06-25 07:49:22

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@npub18jp…8yq3 @npub1lvc…cedh @npub1k93…7ay3 @npub1hpw…cd0d @npub189s…j76y I do mostly web design, and you can add my vote for Fedora Silverblue. It uses something called `toolbox` that allows you to install all the things, node, ffmpeg, you name it, without any risk of messing up your system, but much more integrated than a traditional VM. I love Silverblue 🤗

2024-06-25 07:28:55

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Ohh very interesting, i wonder which one. I have gthumb, that must be it.

2024-06-25 07:01:29

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Had to look it up 😂
Yeah you definitely can 👍

2024-06-25 06:57:53

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Hahaha yeah this is the proper order, folder icons first, then kernel 😁

2024-06-25 05:52:51

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I know, is been a while lol

2024-06-25 03:57:03

Wait, #gnome Files can preview .icns files? Witchcraft.
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/675/241/859/640/244/original/7f58ce71d87885fc.png

2024-06-24 22:15:16

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🥳

2024-06-24 22:09:44

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haha looks great! Crazy that the icons on macOS are not vectorial yet, I had forgot about all the different sizes you need XD

2024-06-24 22:03:00

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Pic or it didn't happen :P

2024-06-24 21:52:39

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Ok I added some subtle gradients to improve contrasts and now I will stop.
It's crazy because designing custom folder icons is how I started, and I think I haven't drawn a single folder icon in 15 years.
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/673/806/390/667/642/original/279888365e64d464.png

2024-06-24 19:52:01

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if you're curious.
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/673/337/831/360/659/original/9a233b5e725459f5.png

2024-06-24 16:29:21

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John Oliver had a great show about Project 2025 very recently. Very good watch https://youtu.be/gYwqpx6lp_s

2024-06-22 03:35:44

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If anybody is interested :)
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/658/171/274/914/522/original/afafee33eb42168f.png
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/658/171/419/033/731/original/debf1867091b2934.png

2024-06-22 03:33:18

Woops, I accidentally a gnome dynamic wallpaper.
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/658/160/182/246/206/original/c2a9919ff383a07f.mp4

2024-06-21 20:33:15

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When you say locally, does a NAS count? I used to store music in dropbox, but managing a music library that is not in ~/Music is way harder than it should be on Linux 😂
Now it's all in Plex and I quite like it

2024-06-21 16:42:38

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All that to say I think "Handoff", aka "Throwing babies over walls" shouldn't exist in my opinion.
Designers deliverable is a working app, not pretty mockups, even if they don't do the coding themselves.
How many times I heard a designer telling me "this bug is engineering fault, my figma file is correct". Well sorry, we don't ship your figma file, and what's in prod is your responsibility.

2024-06-21 16:39:04

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Oh yeah, 100%, depending on the codebase they can't contribute directly. Still, this knowledge means they don't see their job as "throwing babies over the wall", but instead communicate better with engineers, because they share a common language and understanding.
Designers who think "my design is perfect in figma, after that is not my problem" don't understand their role, IMO. It takes a designer to tweak a CSS color directly to realize this is actually where design happens.

2024-06-21 04:09:05

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Honestly after years trying, the best solution I found is having designers who can code themselves. Then the implementation becomes the truth, and figma is only for early exploration and production design. Most of the "designing" happens much closer to the truth.

2024-06-20 21:37:48

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Thank you so much for letting me know!! 😅
I entered the commands from https://github.com/fedora-iot/iot-distro/issues/54 , rebooted, and it seems it worked? Phew, thanks again.
One day we will have a worry-free system that doesn't require you to use the terminal to manually update your bootloader 😄

2024-06-20 16:06:28

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Happy birthday Sir!

2024-06-20 16:04:58

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Yeah, I have hundreds of hours in the game 😅. I went through many playthroughs and worlds.
I'm just trying to go through the Ashlands, upgrade all my gears, kill the boss, and leave this place forever, but doing this solo is a chore (cf OP)

2024-06-20 01:14:46

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thanks so much for the pointer!
Honestly, I'm not super confident with my ability to recover if I mess up in the terminal (one reason I LOVE Silverblue so much :)) so I will just keep booting on the last working image and try to apply new system updates until hopefully one works :D
Thanks again 💙

2024-06-19 22:34:16

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Ha, I found this thread. I should search a bit longer before posting here lol https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/after-a-system-update-bad-shim-signature-silverblue-f40/120347/3

2024-06-19 22:31:36

Ok, it's been 3 software updates now since #fedora #silverblue is showing me this error message on boot. Is it just me?
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/645/653/241/045/426/original/8f4434ea78cab5cf.jpg
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/645/655/400/110/663/original/367ac32335d89f72.jpg

2024-06-19 15:13:58

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Cooperative gameplay sounds great indeed, but I play solo..

2024-06-19 03:57:19

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Oh thank god. The spires falling into the lava were pointlessly sadistic, and the reason for many rage quits.

2024-06-19 01:53:51

I used to love jumping into #valheim for an hour or two to relax, but Ashlands changed that.
Progressing solo in this biome is just not fun. I end up doing something else instead more and more often 🫤

2024-06-18 21:03:57

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@npub15wh…e9hw i honestly do love that if you're being a dick in a restaurant or cafe in France, they will stop serving you, and if you insist kick you out (and probably insult you). The amount of abuse service people take in the name of maintaining sales is insane.

2024-06-17 16:44:45

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@npub1x70…qqwa the motive of product design definitely changed. UX design and UX research had started to become important in some of these companies, until the product managers got new orders to only focusing on business goals and growth.

2024-06-16 07:55:26

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👀
Ok thank you so much, I will keep searching..

2024-06-16 07:36:16

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Can you try a string with a space? Like "project volu" in my initial screenshot? This is after typing a space that it shows me "search with" ahead of history matches

2024-06-16 04:25:38

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Le channel YouTube https://youtube.com/@acoustictrench
Attention, c'est triste 😢

2024-06-15 16:58:32

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Maple, c'était un chien incroyable 🥲

2024-06-13 23:19:07

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https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/611/865/338/745/477/original/f1d0bfe4d7788530.mp4

2024-06-13 22:35:03

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If you find it, I'm _very very_ interested 🤩
I opened a thread on their forum and so far it's not very fruitful https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1449810

2024-06-13 22:32:06

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that seems to search on the page itself when you start typing. I don't think it is related to typing in the URL bar (I just tried to be sure)

2024-06-13 20:17:04

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that's what you'd think, but no, there is absolutely no way that I found that gets rid of the thing.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills lol
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/611/146/498/036/594/original/bda6ec193db8b829.png

2024-06-13 19:48:46

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yeah for things like github, there is no way I type the full url to go to the right project lol
I can't possibly be the only Firefox user who wants this, especially since it's most other browser's default behavior..

2024-06-13 19:39:49

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I've been going to those pages for years. I'm _always_ getting the duckduckgo search suggestion for everything except if I'm typing an exact URL. The logic seems to be:
- if the regex matches a url → open url first
- if not, suggest to search on default search engine.

2024-06-13 19:35:24

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these are my current settings
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/610/988/332/272/359/original/748ca62144c1858f.png

2024-06-13 19:35:01

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yeah I'm doing that too, but it's not a good solution really.

2024-06-13 19:34:40

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it's already off...
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/610/985/596/510/454/original/0560f5acab852504.png

2024-06-13 19:31:27

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it appears to be what Safari does, and I really would like this behavior in Firefox 🤩

2024-06-13 19:30:27

Is there a way in #firefox to flip this behavior?
As in, I mostly revisit existing websites when I type, I rarely want to search the web.
I would like the suggestion to be first, and the search trigger last. Is it possible?
Can't find anything relevant on this broken web anymore 😅
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/610/951/878/957/069/original/bfa39027874eff88.png

2024-06-13 07:48:17

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@npub18ak…untn Charlie défends-mooiiii

2024-06-13 06:06:31

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Haha no worries I get it. I'm also currently building something half open half closed source.
Well, look around, and let me know if you can't find anything decent at a reasonable price :)

2024-06-12 22:59:05

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I see I see. If it's opensource, I'm happy to take a crack at it :)

2024-06-12 22:41:18

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what do you need? Just a mark / logotype for a service?

2024-06-11 20:13:55

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@npub13fr…t5w3 weirdos 👀🤣

2024-06-11 19:13:58

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I just assumed you used an AZERTY keyboard. In this case, ctrl+A becomes ctrl+Q, and ctrl+Z becomes ctrl+W. Probably the wrong assumption 🙃

2024-06-11 18:27:00

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And now, undo will close the window, and select all text will quit the app for a while :)

2024-06-11 18:15:36

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I did the same. Held on to my iPhone 5 SE until I finally ditched this anti-consumer company.

2024-06-11 18:03:52

If your device doesn't have a headphone jack, I can't use it. This is basically the hill I will die on.
I regularly plug the same wireless headphones in:
- my laptop
- my steam deck
- my roku remote
- my gamekiddy pixel
- my VR headset
- my tula microphone
- and more
My headphones are cheap, can't be lost, and they don't have battery inside, so are much easier to dispose. They are also backward compatible with 100 years of devices.

2024-06-11 16:51:29

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Honestly massively let down. Light Phone felt the need to add an amoled screen, a camera, a digital crown, and a million other things, but had to remove the last, remnant of an analog time. I hate it lol

2024-06-11 16:44:31

Light Phone III looks fantastic, but why no headphone jack like in the previous one 😩
Am I really the only one who doesn't care for bluetooth one bit?

2024-06-10 23:16:09

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The rose gold, ai-powered bicycle for the mind.

2024-06-10 23:07:47

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Dang 😐

2024-06-10 23:00:12

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🔖

2024-06-10 22:57:18

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A startup doing "crypto fraud prevention" was trying to hire me in the past. Same energy.

2024-06-10 19:51:56

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oh I use Firefox I don't really follow what other browsers do. Did apple shove some AI in safari?

2024-06-10 19:06:01

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Don't they? 🤔

2024-06-10 18:50:21

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Still one of my fav NoFX album :)

2024-06-09 21:03:14

I've always been fascinated with voxel space (the "Comanche engine") and I thought it would be fun to try to demake #valheim or a souls-like with it.
I couldn't find resources online for a third person view, but I figured it out! _small victories_ lol
https://voxelsoul.onrender.com/
Currently it does nothing, but you can navigate with WASD / touch and drag.
https://cdn.masto.host/noodlesocial/media_attachments/files/112/588/663/512/987/635/original/2fe2657a2be90dfc.mp4

2024-06-09 19:41:52

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@npub1ayk…uvlw I'm pretty sure they wanted the figma user data so bad to train an AI on it.

2024-06-08 18:41:31

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@npub10l3…jca2
Unfortunately Affinity is a proprietary macOS/windows app, and I'm a Linux user in love with open standard formats 😄

2024-06-08 18:39:30

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I just use the default Gnome one (Evince I think?) or even Firefox, when I need to fill a form.

2024-06-07 18:10:11

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yeah jpegli sounds like a no-brainer upgrade to jpeg. Will play with it more.
What I love about webp is that you can get jpg level compression while having 16 bits alpha masks, and animations that are so much more optimized than gif, almost as good as video codecs. A looping movie in an image tag, what a dream lol

2024-06-07 17:50:31

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In browsers yes, in design tools not so much. Many design editors like Figma ignore the format completely. You can't import a webp, you can't export as webp.
Many libraries don't support it well. Opengraph doesn't support it. Gmail converts webp to jpg in email (which breaks animations and transparency), etc. etc.
This format isn't well supported by the industry yet, that was my point :)

2024-06-07 16:00:25

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When I see how poorly webp has been supported (most apps like figma still only support exporting jpg and png) I would be surprised if another one of those modern formats ever takes off :(

2024-06-07 15:31:02

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Unfortunately AFAIK, Affinity Photo is not available for my OS (Linux) and it uses a proprietary file format. Kind of a deal breaker for me :)

2024-06-07 04:47:23

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I have no idea. That would be surprising considering their focus on web technologies?
@npub1rfc…7tmz

2024-06-07 03:40:41

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Haha yeah I should have given Inkscape some love. Penpot has basically replaced it for me, but it is a great piece of software. Adding Krita as well :)
@npub1rfc…7tmz @npub1jxd…txs3

2024-06-07 03:38:21

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As somebody who doesn't like to fiddle around, I'm a big fan of Fedora Silverblue. It's immutable so basically impossible for me to break. And I use flathub for all my apps
@npub1jaz…dx4n

2024-06-07 03:34:53

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1. I use Linux, not macOS
2. I prefer open / standard formats. I have DVDs full of binary files made in dead proprietary software.

2024-06-07 03:29:48

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Yeah I feel you, I've been there. 😩

2024-06-07 03:23:51

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No idea sorry 👀

2024-06-06 23:39:23

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I believe the issue is that you can't sign in without accepting the new terms first?

2024-06-06 22:23:27

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no need, I only use free software :)