Well that definitely used to be true. Now though?
The president can break any law he wants to break and cannot be held accountable even laws enshrined in the constitution, and the SCOTUS which is supposed to be a check on his power are enabling him instead.
The other branch of government is controlled by his lackeys who are afraid to defy him.
At this point the POTUS has all the power of a dictator.
I’ve never used Affinity, but I used Photoshop plenty back in the day.
What features am I missing out on exactly?
I do realize that yes, that’s why I offered a couple of solutions to things that had nothing to do with that. Like thinking you had made a mistake or being afraid of messing up another OS on your machine.
I’m not trying to talk down to you, I’m trying to understand what your issue is, that’s why I’m asking questions.
So why was it that you needed to cancel the installation?
Ive never tried installing Mint, but it’s based on Ubuntu which have installed many times. Unless the installer is radically different it asks you a bunch of questions first, keyboard layout, timezone, whether or not it will be a dual boot or clean install etc. It typically doesn’t actually make any changes to the system until all that is set up and you select install.
The only exception to that I can think of is if you got to the point where you can configure your partitions in a dual boot scenario. If you made a mistake during that process, I can see it messing up your install if you then back out.
Other than that the only way I can think of that might bork you system is if you actually started installing the OS, and then attempted to cancel, at which point it makes perfect sense to me that would mess things up.
The only thing I really take issue with is acting as if cancelling an install of an OS halfway through the process is like such a common thing that enough people would run into the same issue that it would turn people off from installing Linux.
I think GIMP is great. It does everything most people need it to do. You just have to take time to learn how to use it, just like with everything else.
Why would you cancel the install half way through, is that something you normally do?
If you don’t have the time to install it properly, don’t start the process. If you do have the time see it through.
If you think you have made a mistake and can’t simply back up to the step you think you messed up, just continue. Most things can be fixed after install. Worst case scenario, you will just have to reinstall.
If you backed out because you were afraid of messing up your windows partition, I highly recommend backing up all your data before you install in the first place.
In what world is that normal?
The world where the vast majority of people don’t cancel installing an OS halfway through the process.
I can understand being frustrated, but you have to understand that your particular experience is not the norm. I’d be pretty confident saying that less than 1% of people will back out of an install half way through it or have that much of an issue installing (unless it’s Arch). So it’s not something that really needs to be fixed before people can start using Linux.
I didn’t even have that many problems setting up a dual boot with Windows in 2006 when I was a total newbie to Linux, and I had to figure out how partitioning and swap files worked.
Just ask for help in a respectful manner on your distros forum and someone will very likely be happy to assist you.
I didn’t realize that was how her name was spelled! That is fucking hilarious 😂
You didn’t see the car
One time I saw a car that had been hit by a moose. It looked like it had ran into a freaking brick wall. I seriously doubt there were any survivors.
I’m not really sure that is the reason. I’m not saying I would put it past them, just that I really don’t think it’s necessary. Smart phone manufacturers have a million other ways they could spy on you if they wanted to. The U.S. Government already has the ability to know each and every thing you do on your phone, even if you never use Bluetooth. I think it’s greed pure and simple. It probably cost’s them a few pennies to add a physical jack and most people would lose their shit if a phone came out without Bluetooth capabilities, so they save those couple of pennies and put them into their greedy ass pockets.
That being said I have never bought a phone without one and never will as long as I have a choice. I do love my wireless headset though but I am also not too worried about being spied on (yet).
I’m 100% convinced that is why they stopped making batteries user replaceable though. In 2019 Edward Snowden did an interview with Wired magazine where he made the interviewer remove the battery from his phone as a condition of the interview. He explained that the U.S. Government can make it seem as if your device had been ‘powered down’ when in fact they can still listen to your conversations and transmit them back to the CIA or whatever other spooks that want to listen in. Shortly after than almost all manufactures stopped allowing you to remove the battery. Coincidence?
My current phone doesn’t have a removable battery, because I literally couldn’t find one in my price range that allowed you to do so.
The best advice if you don’t want to be spied on is not to use a smartphone altogether or just do whatever you want to be kept secret away from the phone at the very least. Buy a Faraday bag and keep your phone in there if that’s not an option.
I know this is a joke, but I would just like to take this opportunity to relate what I consider to be an interesting historical fact.
Many Americans think that Australia was the only British penal colony, and that America was founded by Puritans, Quakers and the like. In fact Brittan was sending prisoners the North America well before they started using Australia after the revolutionary war. From 1610 to 1766 Brittan sent between 50-120,000 prisoners to America. In 1717 with the passage of the Transportation Act and continuing up until 1776, Brittan sent between 30,000 and 50,000 prisoners and ‘indentured servants’ to America, most of whom were political prisoners. I’m sure that having such a large number of people persecuted for their beliefs by Brittan and shipped off to a foreign land had nothing to do with the colonists declaring independence.
Granted when they did start shipping prisoners to Australia (1787 to 1868), they ended up sending quite a few more there, approx 162,000, but still the U.S. can proudly claim to come from Outlaws, just like the Aussies :)
You can cook chicken legs to a higher temp like 180-185°F, but if you do that with white meat it will be dry af.
explodicle didn’t mention Trump running on draining the swamp because they believed he would do that or because they support Trump in any way. The point (very clearly) is that even people as uneducated, uninformed, and oblivious as MAGAts can tell that there is something very wrong about how America was being ran, and even they wanted something to change. The fact that Trump lied about draining the swamp and the fact that his intentions was to bring in a sewer to replace it is irrelevant. The fact that they were naive to believe him is irrelevant.
The point is that most of us want actual change, not centrist corporate stooges like Biden and Harris. Whether the people put their faith in the wrong ones to change things in the past is beside the point.
And no, the fact that people showed up in record numbers to vote for Biden in 2020 does not prove this trend is incorrect. At that point Biden was a significant change from Trump in the eyes of many people. He deceived people that he was going to be significantly different in the same way Trump did.
If you are still confused try reading the TL:DR again, “Socialists or we lose.” They were 1000% not expecting Trump to actually drain the swamp.
Judging by our last conversation where you blamed the people who voted for Harris for Trump getting elected, this nuance is going to fly right over your head. The fact that you took a comment calling for people to vote for socialist candidates as someone supporting Trump pretty clearly shows you aren’t the sharpest potato in the sack.
I also know you are a pro-capitalist, anti-socialist, corporate boot-licker, so it’s no surprise people calling for socialist candidates to be elected is against your ideals and you would like to muddy the waters as much as you can, but I think it’s clear to everyone you aren’t arguing in good faith.
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Does this make sense?
It’s still a little confusing but I get what you are saying. I’ll look into it. Thanks for explaining :)
Out of interest what games are you running that don’t need GPU performance? Basically any modern 3D game needs a GPU to run well.
I think you misunderstood me. I said “Every game I have attempted to run has just worked and they seem to run just as good as they did in Windows, so I guess I’m lucky I don’t need to really worry about dual booting or VM’s”
The games I play do need GPU performance. Cyberpunk 2077, Red Dead Redemption 2, No Mans Sky, The Outer Worlds etc. I’m not running them in a VM, I’m running them through Steam or Heroic Games Launcher.
I don’t understand why you think that would be less complicated than a high tech solution like virtualization.
Because once you have everything set up properly, all you would need to do to play a game that you couldn’t play in Linux is fire up the VM and play it. In a dual boot situation you would have to reboot your computer into a whole different OS and then play the game. It wouldn’t be a massive difference, but it would be more convenient. Plus it would be contained so there would be no way for it to mess with your bootloader or whatever. Clearly it’s more complicated that I had originally thought.
KVM is special because it’s a hypervisor running in the same CPU ring and privilege level as the full Linux kernel. It’s like if a Type-1 hypervisor ran at the same time as a normal OS in the same space. This means it behaves somewhat like a Type-1 and somewhat like a Type-2. It’s bare metal just like a Type-1 would be, but has to share resources with Linux processes and other parts of the Linux kernel.
Ok, now you got me curious. What is the distinction between that and how I originally described it?
“From what I understood, it runs on ‘Bare Metal’ which means that it theoretically should preform just as well as if you booted into it, with the only overhead being the (Linux OS) which is minimal.”
From my admittedly laymen understanding, it kinda seems like what you said and how I described it are pretty much the same thing.
If I had brain damage I would think voting for trump is a good alternative to democrats.
If that’s directed at me you are an even bigger moron that I thought, and that is quite the accomplishment. Well done 👏
Or I would blame others for the consequences of my own actions.
Instead, you are blaming 10’s of millions of people for other peoples actions, which is even fucking stupider. You are blaming the people who did the thing you wanted them to do, for the actions of the people who did what you didn’t want them to do. That’s worse than shifting the blame, which you are very much doing, that’s worse than denying reality, which you are also doing. It’s dumber than even moronic MAGAt level of reasoning, because as flawed and ignorant as it is at least there is some level of reasoning going on there.
You are just responding to objectively true facts by ignoring them and repeating your stupid fucking catch phrase as if you’ve actually made a point. It’s intellectual equivalent of putting your fingers in your ears and shouting “La, La, La, I can’t heeear you!” That’s some kindergartner level shit right there. Even then I know some kindergartners who are more mature and more capable of abstract thought than you are.
To call it stupid, is an insult to the stupid. It’s worse than even being willfully ignorant, because you are fully aware that what you are saying is bullshit, yet miraculously you somehow you still believe that you have scored a point. I can see you now, drooling into your cum stained panties and clapping for yourself at the ‘zinger’ you just typed out, while grinning like an idiot.
I’m not sure why it would bother you that some people are satisfied with a piece of free software. That seems kinda weird to me tbh.
GIMP version 3.0, which was released on March 16th, introduced non-destructive editing. It supports non destructive editing with gradients through the use of layer effects and masks.
Not sure what you mean by ‘better selection tools’, but the ones they do have work just fine for how I use the program.
I am not a professional graphic designer, and I have never printed an image I made or tweaked with GIMP, so I’m not sure I would benefit from CMYK color space editing.
I’m sure you will say it is also shit, and I don’t have as much experience with it as I do GIMP but Inkscape is an open source vector graphics program that a lot of people seem to like, so it’s nice that we have that option for people whom it would be sufficient.
I’m not against people paying for programs they need to do their jobs, but I wish more people who believe in software freedom were willing to donate to Open Source projects that they use, or even ones that have the potential to be competitive, but aren’t quite there yet.
If professionals who rely on pro software, but also believe in software freedom would donate a fraction of what they spend on Pro software to projects like the GIMP, you would undoubtedly see a lot of the missing features show up in them.
As it stands most people either use the software and don’t donate, or pay $165 and up for software and then compare it to software that costs $0, as if that is any kind of a fair comparison.
My point was simply that most people aren’t professionals, and paying almost $700/year seems like overkill for people who want to occasionally create a meme or retouch a digital photo.
For people that absolutely have to have Pro software, clearly it’s not going to be competitive, but I sure am glad that it’s there for people who aren’t pros.