OK, I will check those out cuz you said you like “Adaptation.”

I have been watching documentaries about dirt lately. It’s fascinating! I started looking for a farm – there’s a LOT for us to do, it turns out!

You’re doing the lord’s work.

Ohhhh trueché. Thank you.

Thank you for your thoughtful response.

Now I will ask an annoying question: what is your favorite movie? And because I’m not a monster, I’ll tell you mine and provide some context. I think if I were asked generically like that, I’d say “Vanilla Sky” or “Adaptation.” I think “my favorite” is extremely variable, but I return to those two a lot and have for years.

Lol – they should a tho!

Quoth Glengarry Glenn Ross: Always be closing.

Gotcha. Thank you.

Nothing says “gratuitous overstatements” quite like marketing copy.

Is this version gonna be in the Ubuntu repos?

I use GIMP nearly daily for drawing with my tablet. Overall, it’s adequate, though I agree with a few other comments that the name is terrible. “PhotoShop” is partially popular because it has a (somewhat) descriptive name. “Inkscape” is far better than GIMP.

If it were my call, I’d just go with something simple and descriptive, like “Linux Image Studio” or, like, “GNU Image Studio,” if GNU’s gotta go in there. IMHO, it’s best to not over-think it, tho someone clearly took that approach to get here.

No doubt. I think I must have phrased the question poorly. I mean to ask: which types of movies do you prefer to watch?

But let me add a layer to what you described. I have read that a lot of movies are sort of greenish now, in part because they’re optimizing for many different lighting conditions. For instance, can you watch it on your phone, in the sun?

Agreed. I think of Wall-E often and think its vision of the future is more accurate, but Idiocracy makes for a more descriptive term to summarize it. And suddenly, I feel like I’m rehashing HS English class: “Does 1984 or Brave New World summarize society more accurately?” The premise being that in 1984, the government deliberately sought to shrink reality, whereas in “Brave New World,” individuals opted-in.

My perspective is that oligarchical wannabes are essentially giving people what they think those people want, but they’re clearly not following the ideas through to their logical conclusions. Like, AI in schools… OK… Why? Because thinking is too hard? Don’t be silly – that’s what brains do reflexively. And like, when did hard stuff get such a bad rap? IMHO, so-called friction is good, probably fundamental. This notion that everything should be all upside all the time is probably not even possible, much less desirable.

100% – I celebrate his entire catalog.

I think about this a lot. Well, on a few different levels: to a significant degree, it is already happening. The www of now doesn’t really resemble the www of like 2006.

I have recently been working on a WP plugin that’s a labyrinth for bots, because the www is being significantly and actively enshittified.

And like, this is what happens when opportunists seek to own public goods. AI has made it worse (also it’s way more A than I), but this has been happening since there has been such a thing as a “web browser.”

To paraphrase some movie…Clerks, maybe? Why do we have to leave? They’re the ones who suck.

The shameless integration of free code a la Bind.

Is it “The Matrix?”

I’m using GrapheneOS to type this and have been using it (periodically) for weeks. I just noticed today that it doesn’t have visual voicemail, and I haven’t the foggiest idea what my vmail PW is. But all in all, it’s solid (knock on wood).

Interesting. Thank you for responding

I don’t have trouble relaxing, per se, but I absolutely am a “I’ll relax when I’m dead” type.

That’s interesting you mentioned video games as a sort of solace amid late-stage capitalism. I can fully believe (so-called) capitalism as it has been known in the US is effectively over, but I tend to think it never really existed. Like, free market? OK, where do they sell heroin then? (Inb4 synthetic opiates at the hospital)

If (so-called) capitalism is ending, why is there no appetite to replace it?

Did the prior generations lose the skills necessary to operate civilization? Therefore, by the time we got to now, people only know how to play and consume?

Discuss (plz).

Thank you for responding. That–RPGs-- makes sense to me. I can conceptualize a game where you’re basically able to cram more into your actual life. I feel – nay, I’ve witnessed – a lot of businesses engage in practices that explicitly disempower their customers, and I see that practice a lot in videogames nowadays. That irks me. It’s ultimately treating customers like ATMs, and I am not on board!

Have you ever played Myst? From what I’ve read, that was the advent of the open world concept.

Similarly, have you ever used Oculus or any of those headset games? It seems like that would work well with unbounded exploration.

I hadn’t really thought of this previously, but maybe my pet peeve is that you’re often just being directed through someone else’s fantasy.

Lol. I watched quite a lot of that video, tho I was disappointed the dominoes didn’t make a big V (for Vendetta) from above.