I’ve never gotten the point of upvoting or downvoting as the main for of engagement with “social” media. I may do one or the other once a week when I get a chuckle or see an absurd take on journalism that isn’t worth engaging with, but simply clicking an icon is scarcely participation.

People with actual things to say is far more satisfying than facing a Hatfield-McCoy standoff.

“They willingly gave all sorts of PII to a soulless corporation. Here’s what didn’t actually happen.”

I mean, it absolutely would be news if a dangerous stretch of I-5 popped up in Eastern Washington.

Do you have a structured settlement? Call DJ Trump! 877-GRIFT-NOW.

This sail sales.

Why should Putin have all the fun when there are upper-floor windows all over the world?

It’s one thing to have bad optics, but it’s another entirely to give a fuck about them. (See also: Facebook.)

I don’t really care for a $999,990 plate with $10 of shitty food.

Shit. Is that how I lost my porn collection?

Ah, but if you want a proper defenestration, Prague’s the go-to.

Who watches ads on YouTube?

If you truly believe LLMs are transformative, that’s on you. I’d perhaps not believe people going forward, as they tend to lie.

Much obliged!

I’m not saying anything of the sort. You’re reading shit you wanted to into this.

OK, as you have all the answers: What is making people fearful?

I’m reminded of the fairy tale of the two squirrels in the Black Forest. As fall came to pass, they BALLROOM!

I mean, corporations are people. How is this less reasonable?

It’s ultimately frustrating to me that I suspect AI here. There are weird inconsistencies.

But, come on.

It has a lot of potential

Really? That’s what everyone says about their toddler while it pukes.

That seems a bit extreme. I don’t need anything beyond CS6, and so far, Affinity is looking good. If people want to pay extra for added features to subsidize me, more power to them; I’m seriously fine with features from (longer than I want to think) ago.

As it turns out, people already have it working in Linux. I just torrented the latest KDE Neon build in case I get a wild hair for a project tomorrow.

I’m not holding my breath for a Linux version. They’re positioning themselves as the alternative to Adobe, so they only need to cover those situations.

Though downloading it did introduce me to MSIX installers, which then led down a rabbit hole. Back in the app, all I did to kick the tires was create a layout and hit T to see if I could immediately draw a text box. The answer was “yes,” so that’s a good first impression. I just have nothing to design currently.