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You might just be in the wrong neighborhood, sunshine…

Perhaps some intrepid souls could arrange to kidnap Trump and Melania and deliver them to the Hague.

Yeah. Anyone for secession?

Good. Do it.👍

Fuck imperialism🖕Fuck the USA

https://heartsofspacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-magnificent-void

But with Qobuz remember to download your music immediately, or it might disappear! Bandcamp does not suffer from this limitation.

Jesus wasn’t born on December 25th. There is no birth narrative in the earliest gospel, Mark, it is an invention of later writers. I think the Romans put his “birthday” on the calendar close to Saturnalia to appease the Saturnalians or whatever.

I like to call it the Solstice (because that’s more or less what it is), with Solstice trees, Solstice cookies, etc.

Christmas, IMHO, is really for kids, not for adults. After the kids grow up, consider celebrating the Solstice by giving to their favorite charity (or better yet, your favorite open source software developer). This SNL video pretty much sums up for me Christmas as it is now for most people: an empty gesture.

Right—just what I was about to say.

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Now that almost everyone on planet earth has a small camera with them at all times, it would have been really cool to have discovered some supernatural stuff, be it ghosts, Big Foot, Nessie, whatever (and someone still might, who knows?), but instead all we get is police brutality. 🙁

You could start your own . . .

https://lemmy.ml/post/37341547

The fact that Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic is so excited about Machado would seem to suggest that you are correct.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/maria-machado-nobel-peace-prize/684510/

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/12/venezuela-opposition-machado-optimism/681148/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/maria-corina-machado-nobel-prize-trump-venezuela-b2843103.html

(Mrs. Erinaceus says that The Atlantic is a make-work project for unemployed neocons).

I only recently found out that the Nobel Prize for Economics was not one of the original prizes, and it was created to give credibility to the theories of intellectual lightweights like Hayek and Friedman.

Thought that the Freedom Flotilla would’ve been the obvious choice.

I don’t want to in any way denigrate the hardworking folks who work on WINE, but from personal experience, I have never gotten it to work with anything. I’ve actually had much better luck with VMs. I believe that WINE itself has a scorecard for how well certain apps behave with it, to wit:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=18332

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=20209

Neither of which sounds terribly promising, unfortunately.

You could probably run Affinity on VirtualBox, but that means still having to deal with Windows, and running a resource-intensive program on it that way can be sort of, well, rickety-feeling.

If GIMP isn’t missing any particular features you need, you may just want to steel yourself and get used to the new work flow. In any event, good luck! 🙂

@[email protected]: I’m not familiar with Affinity, so unfortunately I can’t speak to that. It looks like it’s not Linux compatible, but you could always run it in a virtual machine (which, if you’re not familiar with, sounds kind of scary and hard, but if I can set one up, I’m fairly confident that just about anyone else can too!).

There’s also Viva, which is proprietary, but does have a Linux version (actually looks to be more of an InDesign replacement, so scratch that).

You can always go through what AlternativeTo recommends, and see what works best fot you.

What do you feel is missing in GIMP? If, by any chance it’s full CMYK support, I believe that Krita has that and possibly other features you may be looking for as well.

@[email protected]: Yeah, I do feel that Linux comes up a bit short in the PDF editing department. Even though it’s proprietary, I do really like Master PDF editor, for which I believe there is a free version, but I do think is worth paying for if there’s room in your budget for it. Also, have a look at this.

I don’t know about games, but I have had the thought in the past that if there were really good alternatives to Adobe products (which for the most part do exist, at least for my needs) that people could quite easily ditch Windows if they wanted to and would never look back. Due to enshittification, I think it’s only going to become more and more intrusive over time.

Anyway, hope this helps!