Its more about being against the sin than against any particular group.

I don’t really understand what you’re saying… but to clarify my previous comment. My sense of right and wrong proceeds any interest in any particular group … or even any individual, for that matter.

Completely automatic should be one of the options. Not just ‘reminders’ and ‘don’t check’. I know that I used to use it several years ago.

Thank you!! That is exactly what I was looking for.

That is a big help. I was stuck on the idea that that option wasn’t available when making a new doc and didn’t think to look under the change mode menu.

Yep. Even have this problem with people who agree that it is a bad idea and that google/etc is tracking them. I struggle to admit it, but I think many people are just sheep. Or probably lemmings. I think the last few years have shown that many people really will walk off that cliff if they think “everyone” else is, even if they know the cliff is there and the bottom is way way down there. It looks like they can’t help themselves.

Curious about what wasn’t working with matrix? and how XMPP is comparing? I haven’t used XMPP in like over a decade. Is it still about the same? Better? I don’t think I was that aware of its group abilities. Mostly used it with one friend back in the N900 days where it was built in. How does the excryption compare? about the same if you choose the right option? You got a favorite linux client?

(I know I am pestering you with too many questions, feel free to ignore)

Not haunted by legacy identifiers like phone numbers,

That is a very solid point that all too few people consider. (I’m looking at you telegram!)

I think that as a photo editor, GIMP is the best option for open source. But as a print designer the lack of being able to work in CMYK and 1 bit images is a big problem.

Fortunately Krita does the CMYK thing extremely well, but it also lacks the ability to handle 1 bit images.

Wondering if anyone out there has discovered a lesser known open source app that works with 1 bit images well? Maybe something made for old school pixel art?

It seems strange to me, since even a more modern format like png supports 1 bit.

To be fair… that is more of a MS Paint kind of tool. I’ve been using Photoshop professionally for over 3 decades and I don’t think I have ever used it. It took me a bit just to find it just now. Don’t think I’ve ever used the rectangle tool either. A vector editing program like inkscape/illustrator or scribus/indesign are better tools for that kind of thing.

With that said. GIMP does have an ellipse selection tool, and that is something that I use often enough. And if you really wanted to draw a circle in a pixel pusher program you could just use that tool, invert it and delete on a separate layer.

I don’t think it is toxic, as much as it is almost always misused. Read the following and tell me how many people you know have been using the term correctly.

WIKIPEDIA: Liberalism is a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, the right to private property, and equality before the law.

it happens… some people put a lot of effort into it at a young age. Although looking back, I now realize that that wasn’t normal.

Looked like she was always pushing the marxist position to me. I mean, this mostly started when she was playing with the EU “aristocracy”.

I think the opposite. The climate thing hasn’t been working as well, so they are flipping to the other side of the coin to push their authoritarianism.

Or maybe I just have an American bias. I’m too use to watching the false dichotomy see-sawing ever couple decades.

It can’t be both?

Its not like you can’t be disgusted by Israel, the neo-british empire they are a part of along with Hamas that is all too happy to be their handy little patsy whenever they need an Oswald or Crooks. Or at least, I don’t find that opinion to be a challenging one to have.

I found this to be the most interesting part:

You might think this sounds like it violates the Fourth Amendment, which protects American citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures without probable cause. Well, so does the American Civil Liberties Union. Norfolk, Virginia Judge Jamilah LeCruise also agrees, and in 2024 she ruled that plate-reader data obtained without a search warrant couldn’t be used against a defendant in a robbery case.

Last time I read about this issue was before this happened. Finally the ball is bouncing back a little. Hope to see more of it.

Most Democrats will and have said the same thing.

Oddly… Trump admin people know better than that… but I’m not expecting them to actually do anything differently than what you suggest. Probably both are already captured by whatever data has already been found on them.

several reasons:

they both think they’re in control of it… but mostly because the people funding most of them (same people) are telling them not to… often in the form of police unions and relevant organizations

any party large enough to win anything is going to be mostly co-opted… you gotta vote for individuals… not parties.

same reason most democrats don’t

Ugg… I suspected when I kept seeing more of these things in parking lots and roads. Guess, now I know for sure.

Fair question.

It is something I turn off so I don’t remember for sure. Typically it comes up during the installation process. If your distro is using “Software Updater” it should be an option in it’s settings called “automatically check for updates”. This is on Ubuntu 25.04. Although it has been updated a few times from the version it was originally.

But whatever program is being used for updates should have options that will probably get you there.