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Will this be the year of GIMP?

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Will the GIMP devs ever learn how to come up with an actually usable UX?
 
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Ahriman said:
Will the GIMP devs ever learn how to come up with an actually usable UX?
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If you can handle linux you can totally handle gimp, c'mon dude. They even went the extra mile to sort each tool into its own category. Like the pens use the same slot as the pencils in the toolbox, that sort of thing.
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Worst thing about gimp is the ass simplified interface icons which are harder to discern, but gimp is neither the first nor last app to use shitty simplified flat icons and the devs' obsession with not adding a fucking shape tool when even fucking mspaint has one.
 
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Ahriman said:
Will the GIMP devs ever learn how to come up with an actually usable UX?
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Your first mistake was to assume linux devs can do proper, user friendly, universally accessible and standartised UX,

I mean, they can do UX, it's just the standarts for "good" UX on linux are more of a suggestion that everyone disagrees on and implements differently. Ofcourse, im not saying that good UX is impossible, just impossible when you have 50 or so basement dwelling retards all barking at eachother instead of actually programming whatever it is they are trying to program. (VScode, for example has a rather good UX, but because it's made by a multi trillion megacorp. And, sure, you can say good things about KDE, for example, but that's because they are atleast somewhat organised, then we have Ubuntu, RHEL, etc. etc. but those are again big corporations that have some degree of organisation)
 
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Aidan said:
I think it's crazy to have 4x12tb drives for media and not backup.
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man truly has no idea how big media files can get. I've got "The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)"on my server in 4K 10Bit HDR HEVC, it takes up 33GB of space. these files can get massive if you want them to be in higher resolutions and in HDR. i happen to enjoy my movies with this (even though my 4k tv has no HDR support, i got it in HDR for when i do get a tv capable to do it) since i get to see them at their best quality, file size be damned.
i know compression exists, some of my movies are compressed (my copy of "The Lego Movie (2014)" is about 1.9Gb) but for movies i truly care about, the ones i either grew up with or love to bits, i want to watch them at their best.
 
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man truly has no idea how big media files can get. I've got "The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)"on my server in 4K 10Bit HDR HEVC, it takes up 33GB of space. these files can get massive if you want them to be in higher resolutions and in HDR. i happen to enjoy my movies with this (even though my 4k tv has no HDR support, i got it in HDR for when i do get a tv capable to do it) since i get to see them at their best quality, file size be damned.
i know compression exists, some of my movies are compressed (my copy of "The Lego Movie (2014)" is about 1.9Gb) but for movies i truly care about, the ones i either grew up with or love to bits, i want to watch them at their best.
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I have no idea what you're talking about.

The one that's really full is all the 'retro' games, isos, etc, I've collected.

Code: 
/dev/md50        72T   63T  9.2T  88% /media
/dev/md60        17T   16T   77G 100% /antique

But everything is backed up to another system except for easily replaceable stuff, like AI checkpoints. Critical stuff(things I've created and the archive of MATI) goes off-site.
 
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I have no idea what you're talking about.

The one that's really full is all the 'retro' games, isos, etc, I've collected.

Code: 
/dev/md50        72T   63T  9.2T  88% /media
/dev/md60        17T   16T   77G 100% /antique

But everything is backed up to another system except for easily replaceable stuff, like AI checkpoints. Critical stuff(things I've created and the archive of MATI) goes off-site.
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Of the 50tb in my media storage pool I only have like 12tb of free space
Code: 
/mnt/pool/media$ du -h --max-depth=1
41G    ./music
7.3G    ./comics
1.1G    ./ebooks
228G    ./unsorted
5.5T    ./anime
244G    ./adult
4.0K    ./podcasts
4.0K    ./books
6.2T    ./movies
20T    ./shows
240G    ./audiobooks
728G    ./games
2.7T    ./cartoons
36T    .
(unsorted just contains a version of Mythbusters that has the filler like recaps cut out, to keep it seperate from the full mythbusters. jellyfin shows them side by side)
 
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davids877 said:
the 'retro' games, isos, etc, I've collected.
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Damn, and I just downloaded the eXo DOS collection and felt total gangster. Well to be fair, besides DOS, C64 and Amiga times I don't really care much about stuff and the amount of things there is limited. I guess the TB really start to accumulate if you start with the ISOs.

Apropos AI: Many moons ago I indexed all my amiga floppy images and wrote an emacs function to fuzzy select through the list to fill disk slots for an fs-uae config file. This is a lot faster and more lightweight than any GUI, especially if you deal with tens of thousands of images. Not too long ago, I put an interface for LLMs into emacs (self-written, I didn't like the available ones) and with qwq now I got the idea to give qwq access to the fuzzy search to enter terms and get a few top picks returned and basically make disk selections for me after me expressing vague wishes of what I want to play. It's completely hallucinating most of the time and it's basically RNG what disks it will pick in the end, but somehow it's really entertaining to watch how it comes to really roundabout conclusions what the titles might mean. I need to do something similar for eXo.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Of the 50tb in my media storage pool I only have like 12tb of free space
Code: 
/mnt/pool/media$ du -h --max-depth=1
41G    ./music
7.3G    ./comics
1.1G    ./ebooks
228G    ./unsorted
5.5T    ./anime
244G    ./adult
4.0K    ./podcasts
4.0K    ./books
6.2T    ./movies
20T    ./shows
240G    ./audiobooks
728G    ./games
2.7T    ./cartoons
36T    .
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Does the hentai go in unsorted, anime, adult, or cartoons?
 
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I installed Void to get away from soyware. and bloat... yet I just installed flatpak because my note-taking app of choice (logseq) needs it. Truly a tragedy.
 
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Tormented I am again.
I installed Void to get away from soyware. and bloat... yet I just installed flatpak because my note-taking app of choice (logseq) needs it. Truly a tragedy.
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It looks like they have an AppImage? Those aren't ideal, but they're fundamentally not that different from things like the old Loki linux game port installers that just bundled a bunch of static libraries into a self-extracting shell script, a lot less bad than snaps or flatpak.
 
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