because they can get the same or more revenue with a fraction of the man power

That is exploitation not success.

True, thanks to modders the life of the game has been extended a lot, it was unplayable several years after I bought it but then it was revived thanks to some good folks who improved the game engine and translation and made higher quality textures etc.

I have the boxed PC version I bought 30 years ago what about me

Damn, from the thumbnail I thought they finally invented the 12 slot toaster… oh well. Some day we’ll be able to make two boxes of toaster strudels at once, until then I can hardly call us free.

It does remind me a lot of foobar, the interface builder could use a little work certainly it’s a little tricky, but it works! I accidentally deleted the whole layout at first and had to rebuild it because I deleted the master container haha. It was a learning experience anyways, and now it’s working great and looking how I want :)

I had to dig to find Deadbeef, it is not mentioned in a lot of articles or music player round ups, I’m quite happy with it personally, although my needs are small, I have a big local library but it’s already mostly organized and tagged, so I just needed something to play from directories which was quite hard to find actually, everything uses playlists which I don’t want.

This has really be the ultimate version of telling customers what they want instead of listening to them, what a wild ride.

The Airwindows plugins are all available for Linux and are some of the best dynamics processors, just not so pretty. https://www.airwindows.com/

Another casualty in the short sighted quest to make money instead of working honestly. I wonder when pirate ships will start sailing again.

Two bars… well that’s a thought, screens are so large now and a lot of times that space is just empty anyways, I rarely have anything maximized on my main monitor. Hmmm.

I now remember my main gripe with Cinnamon, it doesn’t remember window positions when turning off monitors, so if I turn off my main monitor first, all the windows will be on the secondary display next time I return to the PC and I have to drag the windows back to where they were. I suppose I’ll just have to remember to turn the secondary off first where I normally only have one or two windows. It looks like there is a Cinnamon spice extension that addresses this but the reviews are not glowing. But yeah, since everything else has been great hardware and software wise, maybe I’ll just deal with it.

Ah I see, thank you, well I have no showstopping problems with Cinnamon in particular, I would just like a bit more control, Cinnamon’s customization options are a bit slim, although maybe I should just leave well enough alone as I have had few problems and everything seems to be running well. I guess I’ll see when I get into some more demanding tasks.

Humm I’m on LMDE7 now and am happy otherwise but kinda wanna try out KDE before I get toooo cozy because I do really like their apps and Cinnamon doesn’t have a ton of options tbh. MX seems like a good hop maybe.

I was searching for a simple directory player type program so I went through a lot of different music players, I was using foobar and 1by1 on windows, I finally settled on deadbeef, I know the name is not great, but it’s the best player I’ve found, I believe it should suit all your needs as it is highly extensible and modular. Check it out and see how you like it: https://deadbeef.sourceforge.io/

Ah thanks, that’s interesting. I feel like they go back and forth as far as features being “inspired” although I do have more faith in the GIMP team than Adobe going forward, as far as adding features I’ll actually use.

Thanks! Always good to hear about useful Linux software, I didn’t use it a lot in Photoshop but still nice to have. I had so many go-to places to learn about new Windows software now gotta find the same for Linux.

Ooo my first big update after the switch last month :)

In the near future non-Nitro users will be quarantined to the nearest abandoned Google Blob Emoji server.

There’s scripts you can run using the console on the browser version on Discord.
I’m not sure if it still works, but the one I used is https://gist.github.com/victornpb/135f5b346dea4decfc8f63ad7d9cc182
This one looks like the updated version: https://github.com/victornpb/undiscord I guess all you need now is something like GreaseMonkey or similar to run it, had to paste a big block of javascript before.

I’m under no illusions that the data may still be in their hands but I guess it’s not outwardly visible? I only did it because I’m a little wacky.

It was a fun 5-6 years but I deleted my account and all my messages last year. That took a while even automated lol.

Thanks for the deep dive, yeah that seems really suspicious, the pdf of that study definitely looks like it was paid for by someone with an agenda, seems to be the opposite of what I suspected, going towards alarmism. I feel like anyone who’s up for taking a survey on AI is already into AI so it’s pretty skewed. I suppose one thing from that study did make some sense:

Many people who are using AI relationship technologies report that they prefer AI communication over engaging with a real person in a genuine relationship.

Sure, everyone loves a sycophant who hangs on their every word and agrees with them all the time… for a while at least.