kazerniel

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[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 7 points 2 days ago

I saw similar when looking for work as a graphic designer, with duties that can be summarised as "design our printed materials, build our website (with JavaScript knowledge required), and also plan our marketing strategy".

Then when I mentioned this in a Clients from Hell comment section, I got someone defend the practice with that small companies can't afford to hire separate people for the 3 separate skillsets...

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 17 points 2 days ago

Literally everyone is one accident, illness, or old age away from being disabled in some way.

yeah I was surprised to come across the statistic that in the UK about quarter of the population has some kind of disability (defined as "a physical or mental health condition or illness that has lasted or is expected to last 12 months or more, and which condition and/or illness reduces their ability to carry out day-to-day activities")

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 6 points 2 days ago

I've seen this photo used in memes since, and it's weird to think that the poor dude is probably just some random stock photo model who now became famous as the face of "the worst person you know" 😅

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

wow what country do you live in? in the UK all microwave instructions I've seen are for 800-900W

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 1 points 2 days ago

in the UK all my microwaves had this starting from the early 2010s

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 2 points 3 days ago

yup, quite a few people managed to kill themselves trying to burn wood with electricity:

The Most Deadly Craft: Fractal Wood Burning

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 15 points 3 days ago (6 children)

wow and it doesn't let you disable this behaviour? must be so annoying

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 4 points 3 days ago

my mind is blown, but not in a good way 🤣

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 2 points 4 days ago

yeah this may be an actual use case

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm thanks, but yea a word editor would probably be missing a ton of layout and image features. The closest I've found was Scribus but it seems pretty rough.

Yes, I tried Inkscape, but sadly found its UI very unintuitive. Also bc it only works with SVG files, it doesn't properly support CMYK colours.

I know of Krita, but I mostly use Photoshop for image editing, not painting. And it's the one of the three I use the rarest and has the most alternatives, so my main pain points are the other two, as long as the three programs work well together. (Which is another weakness in FLOSS software, they don't tend to come in "suites". Not to say that Adobe apps don't have a ton of little inconsistencies and idiosyncrasies, but at least they can smoothly work with each other's files.)

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My main concern would be how to prevent tampering with archived pages - the owner of the second most popular site after Wayback Machine, archive.is, has been known to modify the content of archived pages for petty personal reasons. And without the sanctity of archives, the whole exercise loses its value as proof of records of the past.

[–] kazerniel@piefed.world 13 points 5 days ago (3 children)

software with 1:1 feature parity with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop (except genAI crap)

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