I think there’s a plug in. But it does connect to an api. So you have to have an endpoint available for that. Being an online service (mostly paid) or your own service running in your machine.

https://github.com/thndrbrrr/gimp-stable-boy

You go to the website and the images promoting the browser are using apple. The project is being developed only for macOS and linux. They decided to change the programming language to swift.

To many signs that the devs are appleheads and I get the feeling that the main target is apple, linux second and windows completely out of the box (states by devs themselves). Myself personally, not a fan on apple, I don’t have that kind of money to buy hardware and I don’t see any advantages on doing so.

Giving how apple adjacent the project is I have never had much faith in it being able to truly become an alternative to firefox.

The cheapest is to buy some android box with armlogic processor and install coreelec on it. You can do it for 20 bucks, then you have a kodi oriented linux distro on your tv.

Though I prefer to straight up connect my laptop to the tv with a small remote keyboard and have full computer functionality. I’m looking to change the laptop for a miniPC when the laptop finally breaks down. I would use a normal DE. Nothing specially suited for smartTV usage. But you get used to it pretty quick.

Microsoft already lost the home OS battle when people switch their main devices to smartphones with iOS or Android.

I installed debian long ago. I was on 12 and just updated to 13. Last week.

Trixie is using some new sources format, though the old format is compatible, that was not the issue.

The issue was that the sources was targeting “bookworm” instead of “stable” for updates. So when I was doing “apt update” it didn’t find any updates. I just have to change it to target to stable, and I took the chance and change to the new sources format. But it was hard to catch.

The autoremove issue was mostly an issue because my root partition is small. It fills quickly. It was the default size on the debian installer I believe. The issue was that I tried to update with it being 100% at it was a total mess. It took a long time to fix. Nowadays I always “df”. Before update.

I had used linux mint as my default OS for years, which is said to be the “easiest distro”. Still there was a ton of maintenance. Every week one thing or the other didn’t work properly.

Even a debian server I own, which is completely barebones, without even a graphic interface. Last week I had to manually fix the sources file because trixie update messed it up. A couple of months ago I have a very bad issue with the root partition filling up of old kernel images because I didn’t run autoremove frequen enough.

So you are not alone. It does feel like owning a boat.

I’ve always been wary of Kagi, as they have not been very clear about how big part of their search is based on their own index and how much is metasearch on various other engines.

Games are still not perfect. Multiple screens can be really finicky if they have different resolutions and refresh rates.

I tried MX Linux recently because of that.

It’s nice but not my style. Specially the systemd thing. Trying to support both with and without with somehow more emphasis in “without” systemd.

But it works quite good as a OS in a pendrive thingy.

System breaking errors that doesn’t allow you to even login?

Windows have lots of issues, but it’s been a while since I found those system breaking issues to be somehow common.

For all their shit, credit myst be given when credit is due. And windows it’s become a really robust systems against layer 8 issues. Even powering off middle update is kind of easy to recover (I have to solve this issue for a user recently).

Astrology, but penguin themed.

You are such a Debian.

Arch and Gentoos never got along.

If you are a Nix do not install KDE on the first monday of the month, it’s bad luck.

I vibe coded with cleverbot.

Alternative. Cheap android box and coreelec.

You can have them for about 20 bucks. Have minimal power consumption. And small power factor. They also have ARM architecture.

They are good for low power applications.

I economically support other foss projects. Not just gimp really, as I have not probe whatsoever, but I have this feeling that there’s some development issues with it. It’s not normal that people have been asking for a dedicated shape tool for decades and they refuse to add it.

Godot is one of the ones I think is going to grow bigger than commercial alternatives (like Blender) for instance.

Lately every big GIMP update would be a minor version bump in other projects. Gimp 1 to Gimp 2 was some of a big upgrade. 2 to 3 not so much. Great software. But some of the things introduced in 3.0 are just fixes and patches to try to merge some of the decisions made 20 years ago with the current expectations on UX. And it’s still not there.

Yesterday I just did something very simple. Make a selection cut and copy selection to new layer. I don’t know why but things didn’t work as expected and the new layer had weird behavior, not allowing the use of the selection tool anymore and staying always on top. Not great UX for something that the user expects to be trivial.

I have never used any of those other softwares in more than a decade.

I still only use GIMP for image editing out of principle.

Still have to check every time for GIMP shortcuts because they are so counter intuitive. And there are so many counter intuitive things about it.

IMHO it have the same issue that Libreoffice. It was really made decades ago and never really updated. It’s like that meme about workflows. In their efforts not to break workflows they have gotten behind in UX compared to other software.

Also development seems to be stopping to a halt with each release compared to other more modern foss projects. I suppose it’s due an ancient codebase that’s probably really hard to work with.

I use it. It can do a lot. But UX and development speed in GIMP is not up to par with projects like Krita, Inkscape or Blender (to name a few).

Great software still. But I get why people complain about it.

This is like Nostradamus for me. I don’t want to update and deal with potential breaks.

I think is promoted by hispasat. But I don’t know if they use their satellites or they hire others.

You can download a collection of thousands (maybe a million I don’t even know) of books in Spanish in epub format, from the “secret library”. It’s like a 100Gb torrent, but way worth it.

Ebooks tens to have long lasting battery. I spent a few hours reading on monday.

Just now I’m on my phone, but if you are interested let me know and I’ll try to find the link and will mp it to you if you want.

And just now I’ve been thinking that epubs being so small size maybe there’s a way to transmit them over this radio mesh networks on demand, like some sort of radio library. I’ve have to look into that. Maybe they are too big for that as radio bandwidth for data transfer tends to be incredibly small.