AirVPN has a pretty good reputation AKAIK, and their 2-year plans are cheaper than Mullvad and Proton.

Huh, you’re right, he has been absent. He still seems to be updating notrack over on his gitlab, so I have to assume he just got bored with videos, or some other aspect of his life took priority. I don’t have a twitter account, so I can’t see if he’s posted there, but hopefully he’s in good spirits and health.

Oh sweet jesus, it’s finally happening! Huzzah! Rejoice!

Absolutely stupendous talk. He’s a great public speaker.

In a way, or at least in spirit, it’s similar to the Whole Earth Catalog: Access To Tools, which is something NODE has mentioned enjoying before. So I suppose it is more of a catalog. It is unfortunate it’s reliant on having an internet connection to be used, but still, quite an impressive collection.

When I remember to, I try to add a message in the post body recommending Freetube combined with Libredirect, since that still works.

For minor things it works alright. For slightly advanced things, like making making curved text, it’s not intuitive compared to Photoshop. Though personally, even for minor things I found Krita more pleasant.

A UI designer made this little short about Gimp, which I think captures the sorta things that can be frustrating.

I’m extremely pleased to hear they will be taking UI seriously.

That’s extremely sad to hear, I hope they recover someday :(

There’s a few areas where it’s lacking, the text tool being one of them, and it also can’t export to PDF for professional book cover printing. But I’m not a professional photo editer either, and almost exclusively use Krita for editing anyway, since it’s so my h easier to use.

gimp isn’t being held back by money, they have over a million in bitcoin just sitting there from an old donation that grew in value. In over a decade, no one has figured out how to pay the taxes on it if they start using it to fund developers.

I read on reddit a long time ago that a UI designer tried to help improve gimp, but the devs were hostile to it (i may be remembering that wrong though). Considering how long its been with no UI improvements, I don’t think gimp will ever revamp its UI. Instead, I think Krita has a good chance of moving into photo editing with enough funding.

Ideally it’d be done with re-used materials, like the second guy who used old insulation from an RV.

But at least in my area from a local hardware store, I can buy 1 1/2 inch 4x8ft sheets of expanded polystyrene insulation for $20 per sheet. 3 sheets should be enough for most fridges (or 4, if the heat exchanger is underneath the fridge), so 60 to $80 for new materials.

Using this energy star savings calculator, it spits out this rough estimate of the yearly cost of a 1990’s fridge:

If the foam decreases energy usage by 50%, that would mean a $115 savings within the first year, paying off the initial foam costs within 6 months of use.

According to that same calculator, this is the numbers they give regarding carbon emissions compared to using a new energy efficient fridge:

It’s difficult to find the information of expanded polystyrene’s carbon footprint, I think I found it here? Specifically this chart from that article:

The second column there can be ignored, since we’re not trying to achieve R28, which since XPS foam is pretty low R value compared to other foam insulators would take a LOT of foam. So I guess the first column is the relevant one.

The 2012 forum guy actually made a post about that topic here. According to this site, it can catch fire from a sufficiently hot spark, but its auto-ignition temperature is fairly high.

There does exist some styrofoams with flame retardant in them, but that would probably have to be sought out specifically.

You mean like a shell to go around the foam? That would make it take up even more space, but it could be a cool project for someone who doesn’t mind. :)

The best replacement I’ve found is the Freetube client combined with Libredirect in the browser.

Proton, Tuta, Mailbox, and Posteo are all good.

Proton and Tuta have free offerings. Posteo and mailbox have the cheapest paid offering, but posteo doesn’t allow custom domains.

I had a chuckle imagining your multiple wives at checkout (after having purchased yet more wives) and one tugs at your shirt and asks “honey, will we make it back to the car?”

You respond with a grave look “Some of you, yes. But with my hands full, I can’t make any guarantees. You know that.” Before stepping outside into the parking lot of a mad max-like world.

I only lived in a walkable city for a few months where I didn’t have access to a car, and it was glorious to be able to walk to the grocery store.

But if I was going to the store, I always brought my backpack filled with some reusable bags, since without my backpack I’d be reducing my carrying capacity significantly. It’s difficult for me to imagine forgetting to bring my backpack, since I’d have so much time to notice it not being on me on the walk to the store.

With a car it’s easier to forget the bags, since they could be out of sight in the trunk, and it’s easy not to think about them on the way since driving takes up your focus and attention. But that’s just been my experience.

I do like the idea of stores accepting used bags to re-sell (or perhaps a take-a-bag leave-a-bag rack too?) For those who do not have a car and are more forgetful than I.

I’m confused why they keep buying more reusable bags when they forget to bring some. if I forget them, I usually just put the groceries in the cart unbagged and bring em out to the car, where I usually have the bags and can procede to bag, or if I truly have no bags, just put the groceries in the car bagless.

As a second option, my state eliminated plastic grocery bags at checkout, and instead offer paper bags for 10 or 15 cents a bag, which seems like a good option for those who forget sometimes.

Didn’t even think of that. Absolute gem of a game too.

Disco Elysium is pretty heavily socialist, and is hailed for having great writing.