That travel router looks good. Will you also be using it to connect to the internet using a phone hotspot or just using it for a local network?

Not enough just to get someone else to take your cheap plastic shit to landfill after it’s cluttered their space then I guess.

Looking forward to someone answering this

I saw a youtuber once reviewing the distro that the Russian military uses. It had some crusty retro desktop environment iirc.

I’d like to design a similar off-grid system. What do you have in mind for mobile wifi router and cellular signal booster?

Check out Ardour for music production 👍

If anyone wants my ebook library just let me know.

Excellent resource. Thanks for sharing!

That sounds horrendous

Looks fun!

I’ve always wanted to broadcast encrypted signals from a ham radio out of the back of a van parked next to a nuclear power station.

I’m very intrigued by Guix. What would a Debian stable user notice most if they were to switch?

You could try Jami. It’s peer to peer, so essentially any participants are self-hosting it. Its E2E encrypted, supports group messaging, voice and video calling, has easily ‘linkable’ mobile and desktop apps for all platforms and requires no email address or phone number to use. It’s also the only messenger I’m aware of which is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation. I highly recommend it 👌

Fuck Adobe. They are effectively a monopoly and are actively exploiting that position. I refuse to use their software, even if it slows me down.

Imagine what projects like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus etc could do with a fraction of monthly revenue of Adobe.

I agree that they are effective programs for getting work done. There are some drawbacks in a professional setting though, the biggest being the data scraping that has been introduced. It’s hard to explain to clients that any licensing of their images has been violated before it has even been applied. Either Adobe are going to get away with exactly the kind of IP infringements that they are so against when it comes to their own work, or they’re lining up a buggerload of legal problems for themselves further down the line.

Then there’s the price-gouging that they’ve gotten into with their online subscription model and instability on some hardware.

How to trust them?

For people starting a new business in a creative industry I don’t think Adobe is the obvious choice that it once was.

Y not?

Y tho.

Is it because their planes keep falling apart or because they keep murdering people?

I work with print a lot too. Very interested in the imminent release of GIMP 3.0 with it’s colour upgrades.