I would say that it probably is but if it turns out to be cultural then that would be very interesting.

I’m glad to see this as I’ve been curious about using electric blankets offgrid.

Do you know roughly how much power yours uses? And what do you power it with? Thanks :)

There is nothing like a wood stove in a small space to feel totally luxurious in winter offgrid.

YMMV but I’ve found the GIMP UI to be pretty much on a par with photoshop after having learnt the UI and learnt/modified the keyboard shortcuts. Some things are in fact better in GIMP, like panning and zooming. I’ve transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware but still use photoshop at a workplace.

If photoshop was open source then I think there would be a conversation to be had but I wouldn’t pay for it now that I’m used to GIMP.

When you’re not bad enough in the present and future and need to complete the set.

Thanks :)

This is fascinating and if the analysis is correct (which I think it is) it’s also really exciting because it means the cultural pendulum is swinging from increasing homogenisation to increasing diversification. I think this is going to be really liberating because people’s imagination within a subculture won’t be getting dragged down by the weight of trying to bring everyone along with them. This feels tribal in a good way. People outside of these subcultures (or sub-countercultures) will benefit from what emerges from their ‘streamlining’ too.

I’m noticing that this is happening alongside a reinvigoration of leftwing politics in my part of the world. I don’t know what, if anything, might connect them causally but I can’t help but think that we’re seeing a collective response to the cultural/political/economic dead end we’ve reached and its precarity, fear, loneliness and meaninglessness.

Feasebal is my new favourite word.

Thank you fine sir.

GIMP is well worth getting used to, especially now we are post 3.0 with a proper non-destructive workflow for filters/effects. I had always found it confusing to learn, having the Photoshop UI fossilised into my neural pathways, but what unlocked it for me was following an online GIMP course for 2/3 hours, which amounted to far less time than I had formerly spent cracking photoshop or working to pay for it.

Some great plugins are coming out now too. The Batcher plugin in particular makes GIMP (and GMIC by extension) extremely powerful for automation.

Good times.

Libreoffice is dope af.

“Make America Irrelevant Again”

Good idea for an app. Linux especially would benefit from more high quality apps aimed at less-technical users.

Would be good to include audio-only conversion too.

Solar panels are so cheap and so good now that it is becoming embarrassing if you don’t have any.

Sounds cool. I always wondered whether something like Lemmy could work P2P or like a mesh network.

There are graphs in the book The Spirit Level which show exactly this. The two things correlate. From memory Iceland, Japan and maybe Poland do well, or at least they were when the book was published.

I don’t have any stats to hand but judging by the amount of activity on the forum and the number of people here on Lemmy using it I would say that it is. It’s really good as well.

Cool, be sure to post about it if you do. Also, see if you can get it packaged for YUNOhost, either by yourself or let them know about it. Would love to try it out :)

Super creative look - good work :)

Looks cool! Will it be packaged to run locally too?

Very cool! What was your process?