The nuclear warheads are actually made in Berkshire. The ‘delivery systems’ i.e missiles they are mounted on and the surrounding tech often comes from the states and gets sent back there for refurbishment and testing every few years. The UK could do a lot of damage with what it already has in stock before needing to get more. I agree that the US should be cut out of all important supply chains though.

The quality of their hardware is very high and reminds me of macbook pros that I’ve had in the past. They test their laptops on Ubuntu, so if you choose to have that preinstalled you know that everything will just work. I’ve run Debian and Fedora on mine and both have been fine too. The other good things in my book are that they use Coreboot which is an open source bios and their customer support is excellent.

You should look at getting a laptop from Starlabs with Ubuntu preinstalled on it.

Shut up America.

Ok, got you. That’s still pretty cool.

No probs :) You will love Geeqie then! Learn (or set) the basic shortcuts and a progressive marking/rating workflow and you’ll be flying. I used to absolutely hate culling but now it’s my favourite part of the process!

This is a good question and I’ll be interested to see what others have to say. One thing I’ve noticed is that memories can transform into ‘memories of memories’. What I remember is not the felt impression of something but what I subsequently told or showed myself about it. And it doesn’t even just apply to childhood - I have same thing for big events in my life from last couple of years.

I do find that it’s possible to consciously dig deeper and unearth forgotten memories though.

I’ll also add that I think what constitutes a sense of ‘self’ is more than just memory.

Just to put it out there: There are some excellent options for a linux-native photography stack which also work on windows and mac if you’re interested in trying those out before switching. Darktable and Rawtherapee are both excellent raw developers and Digikam for library management and light editing. You should find that you can pass files between each for a seamless workflow. If you did switch to Linux you would also get Geeqie which is blazing fast for inspecting, culling and rating raw files and is also interoperable with the above apps.

A really good resource for FOSS and Linux photography is pixls.us

FWIW .psd support in GIMP is getting pretty good. Not sure what your use case is but it might be worth checking out if you haven’t used it for a while.

I haven’t gone too deep with Krita yet but I did try out some digital painting in it a few months ago and the brushes and brush dynamics were really nice to use.

Definitely! There are some really powerful plugins coming out for the 3.x series now too and there’s even more great stuff to look forward to in the 3.2 release due out soon. Good times indeed 🤩

I had no idea… How is it used? Can I sign in with a fediverse client app using a Nextcloud account and start commenting on stuff?

Might that bill be of the big beautiful variety?

"Where would we be if we didn’t have any rules?

France."

"Where would we be if we had too many rules?

Germany."

Your shadowy plots are the most shadowy that the world has ever known. It’s never been seen before. One could say that they are unprecedented. Historic even.

Yes, when it suits him to be.

If there is a third world war I think either everyone will lose in one day (nuclear weapons), or it will be sabotage and ‘special military operations’ everywhere for decades, and not named as a world war until later.

Nextcloud talk has federation?

I am way too happy using GIMP now to make use of this.

It sounds like what you’re looking for is Bandwagon.