The kids are alright. Keep up the good work!

If you like minimalism, you can try Mere Launcher.

Full disclosure: I made it.

Yeah, I just installed 64GB (gigabuttonmushrooms)

Kids are often satisfied with simpler answers than you might expect. “It’s just something they do” is usually accepted by my kids (ages 5 and 3).

When it’s not enough, I limit the explanation to whatever I think is appropriate for their age and development. Something like, “animals do that to try to make babies”, usually followed up by something like, “it’s complicated, I’ll tell you more as you get older.”

If you stare into the void, the void might accidentally make eye contact and it’ll be awkward.

Well that turned around rather well.

The Crane Wife by the Decemberists. Parts 1&2, and Part 3 - based on a Japanese folk tale.

You’re right.

I’m gonna keep saying buttkiss though.

YMMV I guess, but among the thousands of applications I’ve submitted looking for work, LinkedIn helped exactly buttkiss percent. The job search system is completely broken, and a terrible platform like LinkedIn isn’t helping.

No guarantee, but if we all delete our accounts, they’ll shut down that cesspool and we can all move on with our lives.

You know what works even better?

Deleting your LinkedIn account.

You know what? We’re gonna strike even harder.

“Wow, you’re very brave, mama! I’m not nearly courageous enough to put my kids in unnecessary danger like that.”

“What about the harm in the mean time?” has a similar problem as the MAGA slogan, in that it ignores the marginalized folks who are experiencing ongoing harm from the status quo. It’s easy to talk about harm reduction when you’re not currently experiencing much harm.

Are you McHappy now?

There are definitely some things PS can do that GIMP can’t, but I’d argue it’s fine for anyone who isn’t coming from Photoshop expecting all those features. I’ve only ever used GIMP, so it seems great to me.

I’ve worked with 2D CAD programs like Autocad for years, I enjoy working with them. Once I tried 3D modeling, I found the experience frustrating–half of my time was spent typing in parameters anyways. I’m sure with enough practice I could get familiar with it, but modeling 3D shapes with a 2D tool just seems like a losing battle.

There are times when the sculpting ability would be nice, but it doesn’t come up that often for me. When I need more complex shapes, I’ll use Inkscape to make a 2D profile and import it into OpenSCAD. So far it’s been working well for me.

My regular open source tools:

• Inkscape
• GIMP
• OpenShot
• Synfig
• Firefox/derivatives (currently using Waterfox)
• Terminal emulators
• OpenSCAD