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Free/cheap art software on minimal setups
  • Not sure if it's what you're looking for but I use https://photopea.com a lot, I didn't need Photoshop enough to pay for it and this is a very good alternative. It's a website but everything happens on your local machine.

    On my iPad I also use Respite for pixel art since Aseprite doesn't have an iPad version.

  • What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?
  • I hadn't watched any Trek in a while and in Picard there was a scene where their ship was hit and started listing like a boat and I was like "that's not how space works!", then remembered that's the thing with Star Trek.

  • ABC NEWS unveils new-look website and app
  • Too many round corners and watching it this morning they've made a mess of their on screen graphics. There's a weird space in the bottom right and crappy orange gradients make it look like commercial tv... Was that the point?

  • Android 15 could bring the tablet taskbar to phones: Here's your first look at the 'tiny' taskbar
  • Huh, I actually had to look at the At a Glance but to see what you were talking about. I've just taken it as a given that I can't use the top 1/3 of the screen or the bottom strip.

    I'm not a gestures guy at all, I like buttons!

  • Android 15 could bring the tablet taskbar to phones: Here's your first look at the 'tiny' taskbar
  • I feel like I'm the only one who still reverts navigation to the 3 dots and doesn't use any of the new stuff they're releasing.

    This taskbar looks like it's going to make things happen without me wanting them to, I hope we can turn it off.

  • Too many checkmarks
  • I have a whole collection of to-do lists! One for every conceivable situation. The only lists that ever get checked off are grocery lists, and even then I get home and realise I've forgotten something.

  • Monterey on external SSD not showing in Startup Disk

    I have a 2015 iMac 21.5" that has slowly ground down to crawl. I had this great idea of installing macos on an external SSD (Kingston 2TB) and run it from there instead but no matter what I try I can't get it to work.

    At first I downloaded the installer for Monterey but the HDD isn't great and it kept crashing and restarting partway through.

    Then I tried installing to the SSD from Recovery (internet recovery wouldn't get past wifi choice so had to use non-internet) but even though the installation went ok it continued to boot from the HDD and in Startup Disk the SSD wouldn't show at all.

    Then I made a USB boot stick and did the same steps above with the same result.

    The SSD has GUID map and I tried both Mac OS and APFS formatted.

    Does anyone have an idea what might be going wrong? Thanks in advance!

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    Local instance treated as remote

    I'm not sure if I'm doing this wrong but when I browse Everything I can swipe posts away to hide them. But on my local instance when I swipe I get a message the post is on a remote instance. Is there a way to change this?

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    Installing Batocera

    I've tinkered with Linux installations before but the last time I made changes to a BIOS it looked 8-bit, not like a windows program (I use Macs, for reference).

    I have a Dell Inspiron 5502 (2021) that I just want to remove Windows from and install Batocera for gaming, but I can't figure out how to wipe it.

    I'm running Batocera from USB but when I go to "Install on a new disk" there are no targets available. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!

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