data1701d

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[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think your Adobe comment isn't quite right. I have two family members who are professional photographers and use Photoshop; Photoshop is so important to their workflow they can't give it up just to use Linux. They thus stick with Windows (though one's work had them using Macs for a bit, so they see it as acceptable).

In contrast, although I sometimes used Photoshop in hobbies (a euphemism for memes), I never used any features so specific to Photoshop that I couldn't just replace it with a combination of Inkscape and GIMP.

I think the truth is as much as I hate Adobe, Photoshop is the best at what it does right now compared to competitors; GIMP 3.0 has a dismal UI and a weaker feature set, and the latter is largely true of a lot of the web-based editors as well.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I love this site.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

I’ve been liking my 1st gen Thinkpad E16 AMD. It took a bit of tuning, but the battery life’s decent.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I don't use the quick copy and paste on my Thinkpad because it's so easy to accidentally trigger. I use it more often on my desktop, though.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago

This episode almost gives me Last Airbender "Tales of Ba Sing Se" vibes. It was especially nice to get to check in on a bunch of regular side characters for what might be the last time.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 7 points 7 months ago

At the end of the episode, I was like, "Oh my gosh! It's that one random cadet!"

I also chuckled at Shax's conflict; I thought they were going to reveal he had been living with some sort of engramic virus or something after an accident.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago

The KMS timeouts almost make me wonder if the graphics chip is snorting some sort of crack.

Just to be safe, maybe try booting a live USB and see what happens. To be very sure, you could even try multiple distro/DE combos on the live disk.

If it's RAM, it should be easily replaceable on a laptop of that age. If it's the graphics chip, then it's probably time to find some other laptop. You can probably still press this to service in a homelab, though.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe post the entire DMESG just in case.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

I think a-Shell's the best thing for that - gives you a nice Unix style shell on your iPhone.

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

Old isn't necessarily bad. Also, as far as I can tell, distros are still patching 1.32. Based on my personal usage of LightDM and the fact that the project is still developed (based on commits to main), I'd say it's more of an "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" dynamic. As for security, the active development suggests the developers would respond if there was a vulnerability - a big if, considering its last CVE was in 2017.

Personally, I love LightDM - it has just enough features while mostly sticking to its name (I mean, you're probably using GTK anyway).

[–] data1701d@startrek.website 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

A shame. I'd kind of become a fan of the Taka look and was rooting for Mirage. Ceroptesian is hardly bad, though. I just found it a smidge on the blander scale than Mirage, though I liked it better than Painting, which looked more like something from Ubuntu,

I did make a submission (Cathode), but I freely admit it's not great.

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