I was tempted to do the same, but instead I used: “Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software”. The deluge of shitty news has remarkably impacted my attention span to read articles, so this comes in handy.

It’s been time to leave for half a decade.

“His name is already on the image where he signed it.”

1. With every “Save Image As” → “Share” cycle the picture quality tends to degrade. Sooner or later the signature becomes illegible or simply cropped out. Just look at the image quality difference now, after only being one day old!
2. Moreover, few people click a link to the source to check out the artist. But, even fewer read the signature, search for the name, and start browsing from there. Let alone the hassle of reverse image searching.

Respect the artists, add the source. Goddamn it’s not that difficult: Tommy Siegel @ https://imginn.com/p/DSnDl53Dvhd/.

In case the proxy website above doesn’t work anymore, “DSnDl53Dvhd” is the post’s id on that society-eroding website owned by that soulless billionaire.

If you need to monitor operational processes from within a browser I wouldn’t recommend Zen. If you don’t, damn, that sucks ☹. I hope you can at least install uBlock Origin in vanilla Firefox.

Zen, LibreWolf, and Waterfox strip Firefox clean of AI.

Zen is a feature powerhouse like Vivaldi, without the bloat. LibreWolf is privacy focused and ships with uBlock Origin by default.

Zen is my main browser. LibreWolf at work for stability. Waterfox works on PC and Android, but I only use it on the latter so can’t vouch for its performance on the former.

There are even more Firefox forks, but these are the one’s I use.

About 10 years ago a friend discovered Linux during his studies and suggested I try it out.

I haven’t looked back ever since.

Liked, bookmarked, installed. Can finally start using GIMP.
On Arch Linux pacman -S gimp will do, run and close, and then overwrite as instructed above. No need for Flatpak.

“‘F the Police’ but who’s stopping you from killing me?” ―Harder Than You Think - Public Enemy

I do believe about 20% of police officers have good intentions and significantly more signed up with that attitude, not knowing that they protect the wealthy elite and crooked politicians more than they uphold democratic values and ethical standards in society.

Unfortunately, probably more of them consider such a career because of the authority it gives them. Therefore I prefer to say that “many cops are bastards”; granted, it doesn’t have an equally nice ring to it.

Ah yes, “feasible full self-driving next year since 2012-something never-tells-a-lie”-Musk claims “AI, not tele-operated”. Let’s trust him implicitly.

Vivaldi Mail beats Proton and Tuta because Vivaldi strongly opposes cryptocurrencies / pyramid schemes, the others support it.

I wish I could ride my bike like a Scythed Chariot and destroy all these death machines that have the gall to ride on the bike path.

I mean fuck! I hate cars and pretentious drivers so goddamn much. The only thing they have to do to accelerate is push a pedal once with less effort than moving a feather of a newborn chick, yet they for some reason consistently claim the right of way, or get it by law even. Topsy-turvy society.

“I reduced the insolent crowd of carriages which cumber our streets, for this luxury of speed destroys its own aim; a pedestrian makes more headway than a hundred conveyances jammed end to end along the twists and turns of the Sacred Way.” ―Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar (1903–1987)

Even his avatar looks dead.

S💔rry, scr🦆w Proton:

1. They support greed-inducing society-eroding pyramid schemes.
   Source: https://fosstodon.org/@stardust/112404108681755769
2. They’re pro Trump: https://fosstodon.org/deck/@Xavier@infosec.exchange/113835722660973690
3. They consolidated their Mastodon account due to a “lack of resources”, yet they’re staying on GestapoX, yet they’ve the resources to build spreadsheet software. Bollocks. They consolidated because they couldn’t take the heat of not being surrounded by sycophants.

Stop supporting greed-stricken spineless bastards.

I love you. That’s my opinion.

As for actual feedback, when saving/converting images I always require a preview or I’m just not going to use it; I find great satisfaction in carefully trial-and-erroring my way into the nicest image quality with the lowest file size.

Thanks for this post. Found my way into a PieFed account because of it. I find the user experience to be much more pleasant indeed. Especially for finding communities across instances and searching for posts/comments in general.

So far I’ve encountered the smoothest OS experience with Arch-based EndeavourOS. Perhaps twice a year something breaks for which the forum or Arch Wiki usually provided the fix within a day. The other 363 days I simply update in the morning/evening and all is well—sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm and yay --noconfirm.

Conversely, on Debian, it drives me nuts that one is prevented from updating even if one public key from one unimportant repository is missing or something. This troubleshooting is way harder for beginners than most things I’ve needed to do to fix my EndeavourOS install.

I’ve got a complete Linux beginner to start off with EndeavourOS without problems. She’s even troubleshooting and fixing suddenly non-working Steam games by herself.

In any case, any Linux is better than Windoze. Try different distributions if you’ve got a spare PC to test with and see what fits you. For the greatest peace of mind, always have two or more hard drives or have a directory that instantly syncs to a cloud to separate the OS from crucial data one cannot lose in case something goes awry. As for desktop environments (DE), I started off with Xfce about ten years ago, used that most of the time. Then fell for the KDE Plasma hype for about year—they’re doing great stuff, but a bit too bloated and buggy for my liking, as well as trying to have a KDE app for everything instead of acknowledging some other software is simply better. One can’t be the best at everything. Anyway, then I tested multiple DEs because all of them have exclusively useful features, and the perfect mix between the most prominent ones (Xfce, Plasma, Gnome) I’ve found to be Cinnamon, the default on Linux Mint. For me that’s the perfect beginner friendly DE that also remains highly configurable/extensible to suit experienced users, without being overwhelming/bloated to anyone.

Have fun and build whatever you want in your new awesome sandbox. Screw M$ without restraint nor compassion.