That travel router looks good. Will you also be using it to connect to the internet using a phone hotspot or just using it for a local network?

Not enough just to get someone else to take your cheap plastic shit to landfill after it’s cluttered their space then I guess.

Looking forward to someone answering this

I’d like to design a similar off-grid system. What do you have in mind for mobile wifi router and cellular signal booster?

Check out Ardour for music production 👍

Well put.

If anyone wants my ebook library just let me know.

Looks fun!

I got a random payout from my building society which I wasn’t expecting, just for being a member. Separate to interest on savings.

I’ve always wanted to broadcast encrypted signals from a ham radio out of the back of a van parked next to a nuclear power station.

You could try Jami. It’s peer to peer, so essentially any participants are self-hosting it. Its E2E encrypted, supports group messaging, voice and video calling, has easily ‘linkable’ mobile and desktop apps for all platforms and requires no email address or phone number to use. It’s also the only messenger I’m aware of which is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. I highly recommend it 👌

Fuck Adobe. They are effectively a monopoly and are actively exploiting that position. I refuse to use their software, even if it slows me down.

Imagine what projects like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus etc could do with a fraction of monthly revenue of Adobe.

I agree that they are effective programs for getting work done. There are some drawbacks in a professional setting though, the biggest being the data scraping that has been introduced. It’s hard to explain to clients that any licensing of their images has been violated before it has even been applied. Either Adobe are going to get away with exactly the kind of IP infringements that they are so against when it comes to their own work, or they’re lining up a buggerload of legal problems for themselves further down the line.

Then there’s the price-gouging that they’ve gotten into with their online subscription model and instability on some hardware.

How to trust them?

For people starting a new business in a creative industry I don’t think Adobe is the obvious choice that it once was.

Y not?

Y tho.

“Hey Boeing, hold my beer.”

I work with print a lot too. Very interested in the imminent release of GIMP 3.0 with it’s colour upgrades.

Then it would be nice if they could chill out and not take themselves so seriously. Good to know if they’re making the discussion shit by removing stuff though, as we can just use different communities.

I’ve seen a few posts and comments made by ‘tankies’ (I had to look up this term, as I’ve never seen it outside of Lemmy) and I don’t think there should be such a moral panic about them. It implies that everyone is so impressionable that they can’t be exposed to a minority fringe political opinion without being instantly turned into a rabid and dangerous extremist.

See something you don’t agree with? Ignore it. Downvote it. Block it if you really want to. So many people seem to come here just looking for a fight with other users or to get some general outrage out of their system, whether it’s ‘tankies’ or ‘anti-tankies’. Just relax. Lemmy is diverse and ever-expanding; there’s loads of fun, interesting and positive stuff to see and talk about here.

I will mention that smaller, niche communities have way more harmonious and interesting discussions. This suggests to me that the majority of aggro comes from people who are just logging in and scrolling down the ‘front page’ for something to do. It’s worth putting in a bit of effort to find specific topics you’re interested in and then looking at the feed of your subscriptions. It’s a much better experience for everyone.

Edited for bad grammarring.