pyre
@pyre@lemmy.world
- Comment on STRAIGHT 2 JAIL 1 day ago:
wait what does this mean
- Comment on música 3 days ago:
fuck yes, i was feeling sad my friends don’t like me talking about it enough. come in!
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 3 days ago:
even if you’re a conservative shithead and don’t even want to talk about that, how hard is it to say, “it’s just a cartoon sweety”?
what is this bitch-ass complaint, from people who i guarantee don’t feel like they have to explain squat to their kids… they suddenly become a super liberal parents like “i can’t lie to my kids, and i have to truthfully address every question” like no you don’t bitch.
- Comment on Not stealing 3 days ago:
I think it’s time. you gotta sacrifice the strategy because 11 is old enough to know acab
- Comment on anons brother has some strong opinions 4 days ago:
are you trying to give buildings cancer
- Comment on leading ai company 4 days ago:
does it count as an “update” every time elon fucks with it to push some fresh nazi shit?
what a meaningless measure. why don’t i update this app one byte at a time? i can say it’s massively outpacing the competition by updating 20 thousand times in the last 4 minutes while the competition updated ZERO times, which means we’re literally INFINITELY faster and by the end of the year we will have released millions of new versions.
he’s so monumentally stupid
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 4 days ago:
I’d day probably no, he clearly got so distracted by all that shit that he forgot to let her finish
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
because it was illegal to be mixed race
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 week ago:
maybe it is about age then :)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 week ago:
of course. i commented mostly to hear what people specifically like about it.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 1 week ago:
never got why they following is so massive. one of these super popular games that never really clicked for me. i mean it was fun but also felt run of the mill; i didn’t understand what’s so special about it.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 week ago:
well what has it been doing for the first 6 years
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 week ago:
yeah these articles (and tv news segments) are always like
you know these machines we designated to specifically crush the average person while enriching the very worst? yeah they might not be happy with this. you’d hate that wouldn’t you?
uhh, no, I’d love that actually. whatever they hate the most, do it please. if they complain after, double it and repeat until morale improves.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
yeah but that’s not part of the original comment, not even by implication. the opposite is also not true so it doesn’t factor in at all.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
disagree. again, we don’t even know if such a change would be beneficial. also, more importantly, the post is entirely stupid. suboptimal by what measure? became disadvantageous how? against what? last time i checked ve**rtebrates were still dominating. now even more than they did during the ages of dinosaurs. too late to correct it… what? first of all, is it even a mistake to correct? where’s the evidence of that? second of all, did evolution stop? too late how? it’s complete bullshit, and if anything the original comment wasn’t harsh enough on it.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 1 week ago:
no they’re not. by definition if you don’t have what you need you don’t survive. we definitively don’t need it. or at least haven’t for millions of years. that’s different from saying we wouldn’t benefit from it.
although that’s not a guarantee either. more information isn’t always better.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
oh my god… I can’t believe I’m still getting surprised by how terrible things are in the US. it is the richest, poorest country.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 1 week ago:
what do you mean fiber “plans”? do you guys not have fiber?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 1 week ago:
i like it much better than adobe. up until a recent update in illustrator it even performed better but now AI seems to have surpassed it. but i find affinity designer’s tools much more useful, although there’s been a bug that pisses me of with the contour tool for quite a while now. but i tolerate it because overall it still allows me to design icons much faster.
in case you’re interested in specifics:
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the pixel persona in AD allows me to work on raster images without leaving the program most of the time (not all affinity photo features can be used but still having a limited raster editor mode feels much better and smoother than switching between programs). AI simply doesn’t have this in any capacity.
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AD’s corner tool instead of AI’s corner rounding with the direct selection tool is much more capable and useful because it’s nondestructive. you can change the original shape with the rounding still applied, which is something you cannot do on AI.
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AD’s contour tool, despite the bug that doesn’t properly round corners when you expand, is still much more fluid to use than AI’s extremely clunky, 1998-ass-feeling offset path. apart from not requiring entering fucking numbers into a fucking dialog box and instead allowing you to offset the path with simple scrubbing… it’s also nondestructive so it can stay on an object even as you edit its original shape. so i still prefer to do workarounds for the bug rather than dealing with that terrible experience in AI.
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gradients are so much better in AD than AI i don’t even know where to begin. it’s just easier to use and more importantly you can use transparency gradients separately from color gradients (but also can have opacity info on a regular color gradient as well). so you can have an object that goes from 100% blue on the left to 0% green on the right but also add transparency gradient that goes 80% from top right to 20% on the bottom left and see the combination as a result in one object.
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AD has “erase” as a blending mode which is small but can be very useful if you’re designing something to be exported to png. Has a couple more modes that AI doesn’t have but this one’s the most straightforward and useful imo.
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It’s nothing huge but I like the vector crop tool in AD, you can just crop anything without thinking about it.
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consistency between programs when using affinity is a great experience you don’t get to have when working across Adobe tools which even for the most closely related ones feel like they aren’t being developed within the same company but different … I wanna say planets? yeah it’s like they’re being developed in different planets instead.
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one time payment for major versions only. i bought affinity 1.0, got all the updates for free up until 2.0, which i was able to buy on discount for upgrading. now i get all the updates on 2.x for free.
there are things that AI does better and i use it when i plan to use those, and sometimes use one and copy paste to the other to use the best of each. best highlights are repeat function (Ctrl+d). now there’s also radial repeat which can be great. blend can be very useful… most of the time though i go with AD.
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- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 1 week ago:
developer is completely different from designer. I’m a graphic designer, and I also do animations and videos. I use adobe illustrator, photoshop, indesign, premier; affinity designer, photo, blender. I use figma too which is good for prototyping for web or apps, but not graphic design in general. and certainly not photo editing. inb4 gimp–completely unusable for pro work.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 1 week ago:
ok so it’s useless
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 1 week ago:
good I’m convinced. just one thing… which graphic design programs does it run natively?
- Comment on Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall 1 week ago:
yeah. still not worth dealing with fucking cloudflare. fuck cloudflare.
- Comment on IYKYK 1 week ago:
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
- Comment on They'd just appear out of nowhere 1 week ago:
if they’re only dots yours might be the blue field entoptic phenomenon which is different. they’re just blood cells flowing before your retina and it’s totally normal.
- Comment on [Fredrik Knudsen] Unofficial Skyrim Patch | Down the Rabbit Hole 1 week ago:
i mean that’s not a high bar but
- Comment on Has cancel culture gone too far? 1 week ago:
Raising Canes should be a strip club name
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 week ago:
- Comment on this is exactly what copper would say 1 week ago:
are you saying they wouldn’t find a buyer?
