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Cake day: September 28th, 2023

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  • This is just wrong. I love foss and the effort put into gimp, but there are so many little ux things that it gets wrong.

    The big one for me is non destructive resizing of pasted objects. Photoshop puts the little drag handles on them allowing for resizing, the top middle one allows you to rotate, holding the shift key locks proportions etc, all right away after pasting.

    On gimp you can open a menu and specify the height and width, or you can click shift + s, which kind of works like Photoshops but is somehow clunkier & destructive when shrinking.

    I also really miss smart objects and the universal tool options menu (not sure what it’s called but it lives on the top of the canvas on PS and gives you all the relevant options for whatever tool you are using. I’m sure gimp has an equivalent but out of the box I find it much more correct and confusing.


  • Libertinus Serif is my current favorite. I generally like most garamond-likes for most books, but will dabble in a sans if the book is suitably scifi. Older favorites of mine are Adobe Caslon Pro and Adobe Devanagari. Baumschrift is a fantastic clean sans font but honestly it shines best on larger sizes for headers rather than prose. If we are doing monospace I love IBM Plex Mono in the light variety.


  • Not sure about jitters but it’s worth mentioning that movies are shot at 23.976 fps, not 24. If you’re looking at the fps counter it will occasionally say 23 depending on how it’s encoded. Personally I use mpc-hc + mad vr, but I think hc isn’t being developed anymore. My setup automatically sets the refresh rate of the display out to match the file. Or at least that’s how it was setup a while back. Now I just use native plex apps which do the frame rate thing automatically.