zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How your showerhead and fridge got roped into the culture wars 3 hours ago:
How is it not? Showerheads and refrigerators are technology.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I wonder how Scribus is doing these days.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
Yeah, whenever I hear people complaining about ads, I’m like “You guys are seeing ads?!”
I could understand if you needed to be some 1337 hacker to block ads, but uBlock is one of the easiest extensions I’ve ever used. You just set it and forget it. There’s zero configuration you need to do.
Of course, if there’s some ad that slips past, then you need to do some hacking, but that almost never happens nowadays.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 days ago:
What’s the story with the Turkish protesters?
- Comment on This is real 5 days ago:
I don’t see how this attempt to speed-run a dictatorship is going to work well for them. You’re supposed to turn up the heat slowly, so the frog doesn’t notice that they’re boiling until it’s too late.
- Comment on This is real 5 days ago:
I’m sure that’s what they think.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
That’s funny. I have no problem drawing circles in GIMP.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
People learned on Photoshop, and then they’re upset because GIMP does things differently. I guarantee you if somebody had learned on GIMP first, it would be the other way around.
There’s nothing intuitive about Photoshop. If you pick it up with zero knowledge and try to do anything, you can’t. You have to take a class to learn how to use it, same as GIMP.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 days ago:
Sorry, Joplin is a nightmare. I want something that stores Markdown in flat files, not a database with changing versions where one version of the db doesn’t work in another version.
I tried to port the database over from another system, but the new version of Joplin wouldn’t read from the old version’s database, and it would corrupt the database when I tried to open it. What a crock of shit. I had to figure out how to dump the data from the tables using sqlite.
I use nb now instead. It is a bit wonky because it uses NodeJS, but you can view and edit files in a web browser, and it saves each entry as a .md file, which is the sane and rational way to do it. So, if nb ever fucks off, I have all my work in a directory of Markdown files, not some broken-ass sqlite database.
- Comment on I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. 6 days ago:
How do you literally develop from a cloud? Are jetpacks involved?
- Comment on I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. 6 days ago:
Don’t you think they could do more good in the USA, since they’re the ones paying for it?
- Comment on I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. 6 days ago:
Vivaldi is closed-source, and it still uses Google’s engine. Good for you for moving away from Google, but you have much better options available to you: FireDragon, Zen, and the rest of the Mozilla browsers.
- Comment on This ‘College Protester’ Isn’t Real. It’s an AI-Powered Undercover Bot for Cops 1 week ago:
“College protesters.” I love how they’re just completely ignoring the First Amendment now.
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 1 week ago:
What are you talking about?
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
You think that people blocking you is “toxic”? Nobody is required to listen to you.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
“mY vErY rEaSoNaBlE pOiNt Of ViEw” lmao
Just say you don’t like it. That’s fine. But don’t pretend that you have some erudite, nuanced take that everybody else is missing because they aren’t as smart as you are.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
Spoiler: if you didn’t like reddit, you won’t like Lemmy.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
And if I were using a work account, I’d agree with you.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
My skeets always catch on.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
No shit. It’s like people who join Lemmy and then complain when it’s too much like reddit. The design of the platform determines what kind of community you get. People on Bluesky are going to bully corpos because that’s what they did on Twitter, and both of those platforms make it really, really easy.
- Comment on Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky 2 weeks ago:
Just don’t bully the people working there.
Not even if they’re C-suite?
- Comment on Facebook Pushes Its Llama 4 AI Model to the Right, Wants to Present “Both Sides” 2 weeks ago:
Damn, Zucc keeps looking worse every day.
- Comment on Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military 2 weeks ago:
Linux has the best file manager I’ve found on any platform: Krusader. It has twin panels, and a lot of the functionality is bound to FKeys: F2 Rename, F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, etc. F9 will open a terminal in the current directory. You can edit text files from within Krusader. I’ve even done it on a remote filesystem over SSH.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
I’m surprised they didn’t call her an antisemite.
- Comment on Microsoft fires employee protestor who called AI boss a ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
And if you don’t like the way one distro does things, you can switch to another one, and there are dozens to choose from. With Windows, of course there is only one distro, and if you don’t like it, too bad.
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Fucking sold.
- Comment on xkcd #3073: Tariffs 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t think that MAGA is the target audience. And if you were at all familiar with xkcd, you wouldn’t either.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday 2 weeks ago:
Per se is a Latin phrase meaning “in itself”. To see if you’re using it properly, replace per se in your sentence with “in itself” and see if it still makes sense.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections. 2 weeks ago:
Same! Crazy to think that it’s been that long. My first real Linux OS was Kubuntu Dapper Drake.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, so you were only doing it to be trendy? Weak.