Upvote for xnview, have you tried the MP version, or whatever it is. I think I run that now, but I have both installed still.
I actually just removed an old portable version that was just living rent free in my portable apps folder for years.
I have a Andoku, a sodoku game that was open source and had the perfect setup options for selecting and placing numbers.
It got sold, and new devs immediately added ads and broke everything. I think it’s some sodoku 3 with subscription options now. Been running it since probably 2013ish.
My SO and I play as a team across dinning tables in restraunts while we wait for waiters or food or whatever.
There are a lot of cultures where seating in public is ad hoc, you just sit wherever, you generally don’t claim a table or area to yourself. In those situations greetings and socialization are pretty normal.
I remember going out to eat fast food with a girl and her kid a decade ago and some homeless guy asked if he could sit with us. I said sure, and he was a nice maybe 50 year old guy. He had clearly been around kids and enjoyed the normalcy of just hanging out with the three of us for 30min. The kid didn’t mind, but the girl I was dating thought it really weird.
These and a few other similar ‘epic’ movies were my go to lullaby movies for decades.
I’d put them on late and fall asleep to them, but I’d also watch them through sometimes too. And I still throw them on sometimes, just for kicks.
Yoti too.
They hold and verify ID, then mostly just pass an OK to the website or service you wanna access. Similar to Paypal playing the middle man when shopping and clicking Pay with Paypal.
They do also have the ability to share other details, but according to their FAQ it’s always with your permission.
Likewise Paypal will share your name address and email, but that’s often necessary while shopping.
Logging in to sites with Google or Facebook has a similar effect, the login prompts often have check boxes that allow you to control the data you share.
The biggest problem of course is that Yoti or other similar services then know what sites you’ve been visiting, and if they don’t respect your privacy and/or keep logs of those sites that information can be hacked or misused by bad actors.
Thus they should only keep age verification use logs extremely temporarily, or anonymize their logs if storing to track general system use patterns, for maintenance and research.
I have an email address and other accounts from the '90s that still exist.
I use the email for junkmail and Craigslist.
Stitching is a hobby?
Where’s the second comparison picture that shows what it would look like with more 3 or 4 story or underground parking.
Hola, they had an issue with bandwidth getting gobbled up, it’s resolved but reliability won’t return untill next week.
Their post about it is hosted on the service you can’t see because it has the issue they are explaining in the post.
However if you search the fediverse for fedinsfw there are posts explaining this elsewhere.
They actually fixed the issue with their service, but the bandwidth alottment was already used up. Connection reliability should return to normal next week.
It’s kinda funny not funny, the post explaining the issue is hosted on the instance you can’t access because it has that issue.
Yeah, was pretty sure it was something like that…
I used AI to make a Home Alone themed digital Christmas card last year. It was completely PG. But it was a nightmare to do as I kept tripping over gates on account of Kevin being a child and Home Alone being a copyrighted property.
I went all the way to the dark end of the AI gen spectrum, to where kiddie porn abdolutely happens, but the product I produced there was unsatisfactory. So I went alI went back to the top players with all the gates and worked around them by reworking my prompts for what seemed like forever.
1 year earlier I would’ve gotten the results I wanted with my first prompt, maybe tweaking fonts for the words, fixing spelling errors, or making minor visual features. 5min tops.
It really turned me off from continuing to play with AI.
Those gates have gotten really nasty.
It’s as though users are treated as guilty in advance and then denied the opportunity to prove themselves innocent.
Completely backwards attitude and practice.
Oh, Costco is in the stone ages still in a lot of ways, it’s pretty unsettling sometimes. But also using tried and true methods and waiting decades to adopt modern tech saves a ton of cash… Which doesn’t just benefit the stock holders when you’re a company like Costco.
Go in in person on a weekday before 3pm and sign up at the service desk.
I have upgraded to USB-C headphones…
But, years ago I got a handful of USB-C to 3.5mm adapters as manufacturers were starting to discontinue the 3.5mm jacks by default.
I was of course used to needing a USB adapter for headphones because I had a RAZR v3 for many years, which I also used as an mp3 player. I believe it only had a micro USB port.
I was around 10.
AI@home baby!
I called it many years ago.
Wish I found somebody dumb enough to bet money against it. I’d be, like, dollars richer maybe.
Wasn’t 7 just an visually updated NT.
Wish granted (wiggles nose)
Just connect USB-C headphones, or use a USB-C to 3.5mm audio dongle.
The audio jack isn’t needed anymore. The only real downsides of USB-C are that you can’t charge while listening, less wirelessly, and it’s more wear and tear for the port, but that’s unlikely to matter.
Honestly, I’d just create a new account/alias and carry on as normal. Maybe bounce around between a couple accounts on different instances, retiring any and replacing it if it gets too much negative heat.
Could always keep your icon or part of an alias name if you want them to be recognizable, but I wouldn’t bother personally.
Fresh starts are nice.
Thanks. Been trying to retire my age old PS6 portable app for ages, and want to move to Linux full time, but keep having to go back. GIMP has always been so frustrating to use. I install it, then run away after trying and struggling to do basic stuff.
Maybe Photogimp will get me there?