your desktop backgrounds I can’t 😂😂😂

I’m currently broke enough that I just rely on the public Xfinitywifi signal and a relative’s Xfinity login. If I need not-weird-captive-portal-internet for something, I bridge and rebroadcast the Xfinitywifi connection using my laptop.

Not exactly pirating but thought this might be a useful anecdote to share

thanks for the writeup! I dislike straws but am going to try using them for a few days to see if I notice a difference, alongside the bottle trick.

wait, i might have this problem. would you be able to describe or link to a guide on fixing it?

iron and sulfur compounds in tap water, or even some more “neutral” ones that are even in bottled water (like carbonates and magnesium), can have a really revolting taste to people who are sensitive to them

I have a friend who is so sensitive to sulfur that she had to rinse her drinking cups with filtered water before using them, just to remove the traces left by washing with tap water from the area we lived in

don’t let anyone tell you you’re crazy or overreacting. also, give distilled water a try. no, it’s not bad for you like people say–your highly acidic stomach is perfectly capable of handling the osmotic shift when drinking distilled.

I love you

“This is the voice of God. I am giving you a divine order to go seek mental health treatment at an intensive inpatient care facility immediately.”

(/s, obvs. don’t do that lol)

I also have not dropped any of my phones once in the past ~10 years.

I am in fear and awe. I put in incredible mental and physical effort not to drop my devices yet have managed to drop and break about half of them (while they were in cases, too).

On the upside it forced me to learn basic electronics repair lol

and so they can use browser vulnerabilities features to collect more data on you

casually ends humanity with time traveling covid

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Are you using the calligraphy tool? IIRC the calligraphy tool does create filled polygons instead of stroked paths

GIMP certainly has a lot of UI problems that seem to have persisted for no other reason than “nobody got around to fixing it”

Also, it’s 2025 and you STILL can’t just draw a circle lmfao

Are you referring to the ends of the lines being rounded? You can change the “cap” type of a stroke path to rounded, square, or sharply pointed using the attribute menu on the right (would provide screenshot but am on mobile, apologies)

https://inkscape-manuals.readthedocs.io/en/latest/strokes.html

It works out of box with my obscure Samsung S-pen touchscreen laptop from 2016, on Debian with no driver preconfig. I am thoroughly impressed

I’ll admit Inkscape’s UI and menus are a disorganized mess. I’m fortunate I learned it while still a high schooler with too much time on her hands

I certainly like GIMP and Inkscape better than Photoshop and Illustrator, though any professional photo editor or graphic artist would probably fight me on that lol

But Krita is the best drawing/painting program of all time and I stand by that.

I’m starting to goof around with Arch and if I turn into an “I use Arch, btw” I’m blaming you

“just the time and date and some cells in my hair follicles”

just remember a falling knife has no handle :]