It would be nice if companies like this came out with a budget model so more people could participate in supporting their products. Lotta poor folks into FOSS.

5-7-5 is pretty stable tbh.

Was that with Jack?

Honestly, Dreamweaver is still pretty good. It’s not as WYSIWYG as like some of the old school front-ends, but it does a pretty good job. If you get some templates and have at least a cursory understanding of xml and css syntax, you’ll do okay.

Okay, so this is a more topic-adjacent meta commentary, but this thread is a great example of something stupid.

Why is it that when people show up on the internet to ask how to do something, a bunch of people jump in to say that thing isn’t worth doing?

I don’t know how many times I’ve been googling for a solution to a problem and I keep finding people who tell OP not to bother rather than either providing a solution or just like, not commenting on a thread they’re incapable of helping in.

Like, y’all get that these conversations turn into google results, right? You know how frustrating it is to google something and the first answer that comes up is ‘google it’? Or better yet ‘you can’t’ in response to a problem that’s absolutely doable.

Just let people do their weird little niche projects that fit their needs! You don’t need to understand why.

Drives me up a wall.

I mostly use it between runs in my cab, so I rest it on the steering wheel in the little gap between the bits that are attached to the column. But I guess you could lean it up against whatever or just get a little phone mount.

It definitely helps me get a lot more writing done than dealing with a keyboard phone!

A month or so ago i bought a 60% Bluetooth mechanical keyboard for my phone. It has become a tiny laptop. It makes me feel like a decker.

Searches that require some context are often a lot easier to find. Like, if I’m searching for something D&D related, I rarely have to specify that that’s what I’m looking for. If it’s on wikidot, it’ll come up right away. Even for pretty generic words like ‘web’ or ‘death’, it knows I’m looking for the spell on the one hand and the cleric domain on the other, just because I’ve searched for so much D&D stuff and done so over and over again.

For mail I use Proton, for backup I use iDrive. I’m pretty happy with both.

Yeah, that’s an automatic no for me on all of their articles. I hope they eventually see posts like this and realize they’re shooting themselves in the foot.

This seems cool, and it’s nice to see people creating alternatives to google, but I probably won’t end up using it.

Over the past few months I’ve tried both DuckDuckGo and Kagi. Both are decent for a lot of things, and Kagi has some really nice features, but in practice they’ve just taught me that I actually want my search engine to know a bit about me.

If I’m looking for something in the area on a google search, I can literally just search the thing. Google already knows where I am and knows what context I’m probably looking for, so it gets me to important results faster. While that might not be particularly useful for areas where Kagi’s tools shine (like research), it turns out that a ton of my searches are just basic stuff like looking for store hours and phone numbers. In both cases I found myself getting frustrated with not having google as my default, requiring a bunch of extra typing or a manual switch of search engines.

I’d love to get a viable replacement for google, but realizing how much my searching benefits from their massive pile of data on me, I don’t know that I’ll actually find one without that. It is nice to have an alternative if results get too personalized or if I want to check against like a baseline search, but search is the one place I’ve tried to get away from google that I keep going back.

I definitely am glad I got away from them for email and document storage, though.

I don’t think so, but maybe you could set up remote access with a desktop and use OpenShot?

That’s goofy.

It’s like someone hearing someone complaining about a slum lord and pointing them to a company that gives out free parcels of land with free trailers on them. It’s not usually, like, a mansion, but it’ll do.

As far as I can tell, humans generally think they know more about literally anything they have passing familiarity with than anyone else on the planet.

I honestly love GIMP’s UX. It’s why I’ve been using it for years. I’ve had Photoshop installed at the same time and I just never use it. GIMP is sleeker, slimmer, and a lot cleaner and easier to use.

The GUI’s stayed more or less the same the whole time I’ve been using it and it’s got plenty of capabilities to do everything I need. I’d be disappointed if they changed it in any significant way.

Copypasta?

A detailed explanation of the difference between Linux and GNU now looks like copypasta to me. Lemmy really is different.

My brain is giving me a syntax error.

Sounds kinda better, tbh.

I’m with you up until the use of all of this to discourage getting away from Google stuff. Just because Google is also involved in open source doesn’t mean that their other projects become more trustworthy, or that the safety of those open source projects should automatically come into question.

If Google pulls out of Gnome, it’d affect Gnome but it wouldn’t obliterate it. Likewise, somebody would probably take over some form of a hard fork of Chromium. But if Google drops support on something you’ve made an essential part of your workflow, you’re in trouble.

The point of getting away from Google as much as possible isn’t to exist in a world without Google, it’s to avoid having a single point of failure and to avoid putting literally all your data into the hands of a company that will use it however they can to profit. Half my duck duck go searches get a !g at the front, and Firefox or no, I’m still on an android phone, but that doesn’t mean I’m trying to hand them all my notes for work that isn’t finished yet so they can regurgitate its component parts. Train on my stuff all you want, but at least let me finish it first.

Google right now is like a bad relationship. It’s gotten completely wrapped up in our way of life to the point that it’s overly comfortable doing a half-assed or self-serving job and knowing most people won’t bother to shake things up looking for something better.

It’s probably best if we all get a little space from megacorps like Google, even if we don’t abandon the relationship entirely.

Literally about 90% of the commits I’ve pushed on my DayZ server’s configs and mod files are just marked ‘a’. The actual mod updates I almost never have made porch notes for. Trying to be a little more informative for my new D&D based Conan Exiles server.

It still looks better than how I used to name things in flash.