Blackfeathr
@Blackfeathr@lemmy.world
I am a Rexxitor. I am also forklift certified.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 16 hours ago:
I’ve tried Affinity, it’s got a few dealbreakers.
No ability to save a workspace or have it be cohesive across projects. Searched online to see if there was a fix for it and there’s not, you just have to set up your desired workspace for every single new project you start. Controls are not intuitive, i.e. right click does not bring up brush size menu. Can’t select parts of the drawing and just flip horizontal/vertical, you have to put it on a new layer and do a bunch of extra stuff to flip it. Also tried to import my PS brushes into Affinity and a lot of them had broken or mangled textures or just, did not operate the same and no amount of finagling could restore them to how they were.
I really wanted to like it but it’s still got some kinks that need to be worked out.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 19 hours ago:
I’m pretty much in the same situation you’re in. I use Clip Studio Paint and a 24-year Photoshop user, and finding a suitable alternative to both is a crapshoot. I’m gonna try GIMP and Krita again, but I’m not optimistic…
- Comment on YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online. 3 days ago:
I’ve seen some folks mention that this might be someone who was mad about being banned from one of more communities, so now they repeatedly make accounts, post a bunch of times and then delete the account to circumvent being banned again.
- Comment on YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online. 4 days ago:
Yeah, the content of the post is fine, it’s just this community in particular has been getting a slew of spam accounts that delete themselves within an hour or a day of being created.
- Comment on YSK that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is one of the best engineering school in the world. You can take free courses at MIT online. 4 days ago:
Account created 1 hour ago
Might be another one of those fly-by-night accounts.
- Comment on Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago? 4 days ago:
Apart from a lot of us (myself included) appreciating high quality animation and story that didn’t predisposition itself to be dumbed down for their intended audience, the main mantra of the Brony movement was “Love and Tolerance” which in the early days was practiced pretty cohesively, even extending to aggressors who would pop in and call everyone gay/other slurs to try to get a rise out of others, and whatnot. We’d just be like “ok, that’s just like, your opinion man, we love you anyway” and proceed on with our lives instead of engaging them in arguing and namecalling. At the time your typical garden-variety internet troll didn’t really know what to do in that situation. The Encyclopedia Dramatica page on Bronies was especially amusing because they admitted they didn’t have any viable way to cause flame wars or upset within the fandom.
As the fandom got bigger of course it was going to get people that take the bait so from my perspective it wasn’t as much of a unified front in later years as it was in the beginning.
But I was part of Mumble/Teamspeak servers, Minecraft servers, Steam groups etc and they were all very welcoming. I think it was just that most of us were well intentioned people that enjoyed us a good cartoon, lol.
- Comment on Am I immature if I feel sad that a subculture that treated me so warmly died out years ago? 5 days ago:
I was one of the wholesome Bronies. Met a lot of great people that I still keep in touch with to this day.
The movement and the mindset really helped me in my darkest time.
- Comment on Does TikTok's new Terms of Service track race, gender identity, and immigration status? 6 days ago:
TikTok is literal brain rot. Stop using it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You’re better off without it tbh. This is coming from someone who had an account on there for 13 years, it used to be okay, but big corps, bots, and especially the owner Spez absolutely ratfucked it into a shadow of its former self. It’s no longer reliable as a source of information or entertainment since it’s roughly 60% bots by volume. You never know if you’re actually talking to a real person on the other end.
If you really want to get back, you’re going to have to be careful about it. You can use a VPN on a device you’ve never accessed reddit on before, and you will likely not be detected. But again you have to be really careful. Even so much as opening a reddit link with your new account logged in on a device/IP your banned account was on almost guarantees your new account will get permbanned within a couple of days. They are unreasonably heavy-handed with ban evasions.
- Comment on YSK that Jay Van Bavel asked 120 researchers if smartphones and social media are bad for teen mental health. He was able to identify a series of statements that essentially all agreed on 1 week ago:
Is this another fly-by-night account?
- Comment on X down – latest: Twitter and Grok not working in another major outage 2 weeks ago:
Oh well
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I could’ve told you that.
- Comment on YSK that taking advice from youtubers and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities 2 weeks ago:
This community gets a lot of these fly by night accounts that do this sort of thing, for some reason.
- Comment on YSK that taking advice from youtubers and podcasters is a terrible idea. Only take advice from research universities 2 weeks ago:
Account created half an hour ago.
Possible self deleting spam account.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This account made over 1000 posts in 14 days.
This is a bot account.
Please report it as such.
- Comment on An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users 2 weeks ago:
I was wondering about that, because I got a several over the course of a few days. I finally limited it to prohibit any lost password requests from unknown devices just to get it to stfu. I don’t even use IG anymore, anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Several rows of bright light bars mounted on the wall, not sure if your landlord will allow that tho. A mirror could probably boost your plausible deniability.
- Comment on The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet -- Multi-hyphenate 3 weeks ago:
I deleted my dA gallery over a year ago. Not interested in feeding their AI with my works. It’s a shame, too, a few of my deviations made best all time under A:TLA characters’ keywords.
Their UI is cancer. Endless popups nagging you to get Core. Their messaging and chat functions are useless to everyone except scammers. And now, the search function, aka the last thing I found dA useful for (because of the massive amount of tutorials uploaded there) has been completely nerfed. Now if I’m looking for a specific tutorial, I have to go to duckduckgo and type in the keywords and site:deviantart.com to pull up actually relevant results.
The enshittification of DeviantART is complete.
I wish there were other widely used galleries to post on but alas, I’m confined to FurAffinity for now.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Guy who made death threats at me for having an avatar that looked like something furry-adjacent got a slap on the wrist and still has his account. I’ve been permanently banned for calling a Nazi a loser.
- Comment on YSK this woman is called Kathlyn Boyle. She is the most powerful woman in Silicon Valley and one of the closest friend of JD Vance. 3 weeks ago:
account created 1 hour ago
Not gonna hold my breath that this isn’t a self deleting spam account.
^(Disclaimer: not disagreeing with the content of the post, just that these accounts have been running rampant on this and other communities)
- Comment on YSK that one New York best museum desperately needs help 4 weeks ago:
I’m not entirely sure. The best guess I have on that is, they’re pushing a narrative or shilling specific websites like nytimes (which all of these accounts I’ve seen so far have shared from very heavily).
Someone else mentioned it could be a person that got salty that they got banned from some communities and are having a shitfit making a bunch of accounts and deleting them before they get banned again.
- Comment on How open are you about yourself to others online in general? 4 weeks ago:
Depends where on the internet I’m in.
On here and when I was on reddit, I’m a bit more guarded and speak in broader terms in regards to family/friends/experiences so as not to pin too many identifiable specifics on me.
In another long forgotten corner of the internet that like at most 30 people congregate in, I’m a bit more open but not overly so.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 4 weeks ago:
As someone with a second hand Galaxy from seven years ago, yeah there’s not really much difference. Newer phones are slightly more annoying to use, actually.
- Comment on If you have ANY Canadian ancestor, you are likely a Canadian citizen as a result of recent changes in Canadian law 4 weeks ago:
My stepdad was born in Canada, but he did not adopt me. Bummer.
- Comment on YSK that one New York best museum desperately needs help 4 weeks ago:
I mean seems to fit the pattern of such accounts to a T but alright we shall see.
- Comment on YSK that one New York best museum desperately needs help 4 weeks ago:
OP created account 47 minutes ago.
This is going to be another self deleting spam account.
- Comment on Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early 4 weeks ago:
I am AFAB - been wearing mens pants for years and I don’t have a problem fitting into them. Probably largely depends on body shape and even then, taking measurements and matching it to the correct size usually works out.
My crackpot conspiracy theory is that women’s pants pockets are smaller in order to force women to buy and use purses.
- Comment on Finally a website where you can test if your private key is leaked inspired by haveibeenpwned 5 weeks ago:
hunter2
- Comment on It's the truth! 5 weeks ago:
This is a bot
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know who needs to see this but stop using TikTok!