um… did my bio get deleted?
It was honestly quite easy to take 10 minutes, scroll thru my list of subscribed communities, remove every one hosted on .world, and then block the instance.
The next step beyond that is a little more involved: creating equivalent communities on other instances where needed.
Anybody got a summary of the drama I smell behind this?
It was very easy to dump the community or two I subscribed to on that instance.
I’m leaning that direction if only because I have decade-old Python experience which I could potentially dust off and use to contribute to development if I start “dogfooding” PieFed and find things I want to fix or improve.
I think ultimately issues like this will be why I don’t choose Lemmy when I finally get around to standing up my own threadiverse node.
Bye ✌️
Edit:
but at least on Reddit there is more actual human content.
lol. lmao even
I have a consumer tier Ironwolf that isn’t too loud, it does make a little noise but it’s not a whine, more of a very low rushing air type noise when spinning (like the “brown noise” another commenter mentioned) and fairly quiet grinding when it’s active. Not the quietest drive ever, but less noticeable than some I’ve had in the past. The periodic thermal calibrations from a 2.5" HDD I have inside a mini PC next to it are more noticeable.
There’s even an unofficial AppImage of it now, which is nice because the one that deals with the Flatpak seems to break every time the Flatpak gets updated.
Exhibit A: the text tool.
In general though, I find the UX to just be worse across the board. Too many steps. Non-intuitive defaults. Bad keyboard shortcuts. and so on.
To be honest, I have successfully avoided using bare GIMP for enough years now (not sure how old PhotoGIMP is, but I think it’s been around at least 5 years) that the specific bad memories are fading.
I do think GIMP has objectively bad UX in the sense that it’s definitely not just “I was used to Photoshop first so I automatically think everything else sucks.” Probably the last ~20 years of flamewars started by people pissing off the devs by saying the exact same thing is some evidence of that. But I’m not a UX expert and haven’t sat down to do a side-by-side comparison… honestly, that’s something I’d really enjoy reading/watching if somebody did do it.
If such a thing existed, it’d be coolest if they did it with one of the “good” versions of classic Photoshop, like version 7 or whatever was made by pirates into a portable app in the 2000s. I have no idea how far the UX has evolved in Adobe’s rent-seeking era because I stopped using even portable Photoshop when I switched to Linux as my daily driver for good in 2015 or so. Then suffered with GIMP for a few years, hating every nanosecond of it, til PhotoGIMP came along.
Look into PhotoGIMP.
GIMP is hot garbage compared to classic Photoshop (I haven’t used the rent-seeking versions so I wouldn’t know about those). The UX has been utter shite and will remain utter shite because they like it that way. PhotoGIMP has been a godsend.
They also think they can maintain control of the narrative. Nope.
that’s fair. I like sdf.org but I would, I chose it.
…have you expended the slightest bit of effort to do that? Because there are plenty.
I continue to maintain that the best individual policy is to instance-block .world and let the redditor hoi polloi who end up there self-select onto smaller and better instances as they wake up to what a crappy place the default is. If they aren’t capable of eventually waking up to that, then I don’t really want them in my feed, so .world is a good place for them to be contained.
then unsubscribe.
WPA and WPA2 gear still has plenty of vulnerabilities.
WiFi 6 has made this a lot more viable than it used to be. I’ve done a fair amount of parking lot leeching and new gear is worth it.
I really wish projects like this would prioritize having an English-language presence on fedi.