It’s free software. You’re assured the 4 freedoms. Put up or hack up. If you want GIMP the same but with another name, that’s a fairly easy fork to make. You do not need to reaffirm your dis-empowerment, wishing on eventuality.

Why’s it a shame it has the name it has?

It’s a great name. It’s fun. It’s whimsical. It’s practical. It says exactly what it is. Where’s the shame?

And speaking as someone with several ailments that give me a gimpy walk, I feel seen, having the already-homonymous word gimp extended to yet another meaning. … Is the objection to the name coming from those who are yet to comprehend the concept of homonyms and extend that comprehension more broadly to things they’d not prior considered to be homonyms?

Please do not change the name.

There’s nothing wrong with it whatsoever. ~ I feel seen (with my gimpy walk), with that homonym out there. It’s a strong positive.

Also, what an ugly book-burning history-rewriting miscrediting to try hush an advocacy of freedom, when [ironically] that freedom’s right there, availing you the solution (that does not seek to impose any doubleplus goodspeak), in that you can just fork it, and rename it, yourself, if that’s the issue you have with it.

… Also… I’ve never heard it called GNU Imp. Gimp, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, or the gimp. That’s just silly. … And why’s Imp considered an improvement? What’s the benefit? What itch would it scratch?

I have tried various versions in the 3 series. Several times. Across several distros. And several arrangements of useflags in gentoo. The new new point version? probably not yet. Have they changed the toolkit or done some magic to change it to be as responsive as the 2 series? If not, seems a safe bet it’ll still be noticeably laggy like all prior versions in the 3 series.

Yeah… I’ll stick with 2.10. It’s responsive.

Here’s hoping they’re squeezing so tight as to make more people slip out of their grasp, drop their borg boxes, and return to being real humans.

That’s debatable.

That smells like a false dichotomy… but, I’m heading on to other things better to do with my time than to think up examples outside those two possibilities.

But don’t worry, everybody. The national/global digital ID single point of failure will protect us from such fails. :`3

Hrmm… How far back can I roll this? Can I get my money back for the windoze-tax on machines I bought in the winXP era? :D

So the situation [there] is:

• free software’s principles are preserved for users of free software based operating system,

• but if you use a proprietary operating system, you have to report your age to the pedovores… ? ? ? !

How rusty must the nail under them get before they move away? User lock-in got them trapped tight?

How long before we cease feeding the dragon tyrant?

come to devuan

come to antix

come to devuan

Which of the at least 4 places you posted this do you want replied to? n_n

… Actually, I got nuthin. No distro-specific problems at all are standing out to me as worth mentioning.

19 years ago.

*Ahem*

mcedit

under sung hero of easy tui text editors. [Has controls on screen.]

overlooked because it’s part of mc, and thus does not show up in the text editor categories in package managers and websearches?

could do a similar THGTTG bit for it. … or other parodies of other stuff… idk, my brain not conjuring such things with ease just now.

(And yes, I missed the reference, at first, too… Thought about responding with some contrived towel elaboration).

Removes [your first step to be able to remedy a problem] your awareness of what’s going on around you in the real world. [Many people feel very unnerved by it because of this aspect.]

… I was going to share a link here to whatever first video I found of any of the many videos of thieves sneaking into people’s homes while they’re oblivious on VR, but someone has created a VR game called thief sneak, where the wearer of VR can play a thief sneaking into people’s homes, making it too hard to find the videos of that really happening. The potential for irony now, seems obvious…

Anyhoo, beyond that flooding-the-zone, plenty else goes wrong, born of that aspect, and more. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=VR+fails

I wonder if it’s more like VR.

People don’t like losing control over their technology in reality.

People want to retain control over their technology, like it’s a tool.

Virtual reality removes awareness and agency in the real world.

Same as agents do.

Here’s to all the Ronalds and Daniels out there.

Thanks.

:)

Missing the joke is always worthy as it’s own joke.

I’m scared to run that.

Is that like some kind of fork bomb?

Or is it just a tubular cat?