Mike Trotz @mtrotz@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
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@b0rk This, when I started in IT not much was on the Internet, man pages, another person, or dead tree books were the first place you looked. As time has progressed, search engines slowly surpassed man pages and books, until recently, now I generally will use a man page before a search, or even an ai, but I have a deep instinctual aversion to ai
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"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"
Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.
@nixCraft
DBase III+
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There is a new short domain name for #PuTTY!
At present, this is just a "landing page": a nice short name to remember, which will redirect you to the full PuTTY website at the same longer URL where it's always been.
But unlike putty.org or other third-party landing pages, this one is run by us, the actual PuTTY team, and it doesn't have a weird separate agenda of its own.
I intend to move the main PuTTY site over to that domain in the future, and leave just a redirector at the old location. But first I want to get the word out, so that people know which site to trust.
If anyone is still linking to putty.org, here's a place to link to instead. Please spread the word!
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#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬
Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:
➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing
➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation
➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing
➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos) - 3D animation & video effects
➡️ @Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Painting & illustration
➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing
➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos
➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)
@nixCraft The origenal X-Com
@vkc@linuxmom.net It is the anti-reading thing that has been developing for a while. There is a section of the population that doesn't do long-format reading, tl:dr, for anything more than three or four paragraphs. If a summary isn't readily available, AI can make one.
@vkc@linuxmom.net It is definitely the muscle memory thing for me. It is hard to let go of it sometimes, I still want to hit SHFT+F7, then 1 to print a document.
I had to head down the historical rabbit hole; Red Hat ran a version of CDE that was a bit different than the Unix versions until they switched to Gnome as the default
@nixCraft In the US, it is not important. Most high school graduates can barely read and write and lack math skills. The OS they use to watch YouTube has no bearing on fixing those problems.
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#Switch to #opensource solutions:
Windows: #Linux
Photoshop: #Gimp 3.0-rc
Illustrator: #Inkscape
PremierePro: #Kdenlive, #Shotcut
Office/Acrobat: #OnlyOffice, #LibreOffice
Maya: #Blender
Media: #VLC
Unity: #Godot
ToonBoom: #SynfigStudio, #Pencil2D
InDesign: #Scribus
Nuke: #Natron
Procreate: #Krita
After Effects: #Friction
Mathematica: #SageMath, #SymPy
MatLab: #GnuOctave
Audition: #Audacity
Autocad: #FreeCAD, #QCad
Ableton: #Ardour, #LMMS (daily build)
Lightroom: #DarkTable, #RawTherapee
@vkc@linuxmom.net I am having flashbacks to installing 100+ NE2000 compatable ISA NICS on Windows 95 machines. They had a RJ45 and a BNC connector, we used the RJ45, and I took all the T connectors for the BNC attached them together in the worst, crokedest but chromeiest snake ever.
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By age 30, you should be able to use whatever text editor or operating system you want and not get upset about those flamewars.
@nixCraft 20MB, MFM
@vkc@linuxmom.net, You Need to mark it as "non-altered" or something similar because you will upload the newer versions, too.
Joined Jun 2019
