You might find that more insulation helps if it’s condensation. You’re effectively sleeping on a hammock, so you could check out some hammock camping forums.

I had to sleep on one of those for an extended period recently and had the same problem. I highly recommend finding an alternative!

It looks like you’re right - just checked and it only seems to happen when Power Saver is selected in GNOME. Do you know if anything can be done to prevent dimming in this mode?

I use Pixelfed by subscribing to hashtags that I’m interested in and artists/photographers who I come across via hashtags or my instance feed.

I’m guessing that this is how Pixelfed is designed to be used as users and hashtags are what makes up your home feed.

I’ve never felt the need to browse by instance but I can see that this could be a cool feature to add if there are any which are dedicated to a particular subject or style. Of course the same functionality can be accomplished simply by users adding unique and specific hashtags to their posts e.g #celticsculptures or #seeninplymouth.

It’s good that your dad is your friend. He probably really loves you and wants the best for you, which isn’t always the case with other people.

In fact I would say that your dad is probably the most important friend to have.

With that out of the way, I’d also ask: How old are you? Do you want other friends? Have you met other people that you want to be friends with? What is your definition of a ‘friend’?

You might already have friends but not think of them as such. You might be surrounded by people you don’t want to be friends with or your paths might not have crossed yet with anyone you want to be friends with.

Does your dad have friends? My first friends were people my parents introduced me to. Now most of my friends are people that other friends introduced me to. Friends have been a very social thing for me.

I can’t imagine any messenger is private if you invite random people into a group chat 🤦‍♂️

I get screamed at for attention sometimes, which seems like a pretty good definition of trolling. So yeah.

It doesn’t seem possible to use TAB in keybaord shortcuts yet. I think it would be a good feature to have and would make sense!

I currently have Next Image set to ctrl+]

Ah OK, I understand. Yes, it sounds like it would make sense for GIMP to offer the option to immediately crop in that case.

If it’s a helpful alternative, you can also drag an image from another application onto the GIMP logo above the toolbox to open it as a new file, rather than pasting it onto one which is already open. I often do this when I want to open something from my web browser :)

Funny that the US has become more like Russia since Trump was elected.

I have to use Windows at work and by early afternoon if I’m not forced to reboot for an update I have to reboot because the machine has basically ground to a halt.

Why does Windows slow down the longer it’s been booted?

I picked and ate a leaf of what I thought was wild garlic but it wasn’t. It felt like a bomb had gone off in my mouth. I sprinted home and washed my mouth out with everything I had, including wine and 51 pastis but nothing helped.

No permanent damage afaict.

You’re welcome - I hope you have a good time with it!

If you have pasted an image but not yet made any selections on it then I would have thought that there is no selection to crop to yet. What are you trying to crop?

No probs :)

I’m kind of ambivalent about the criticism of GIMP’s UI/UX; I can see it from both sides. Over the years I’d tried it out a few times when I was having problems with Photoshop but it wasn’t immediately obvious how to replicate my workflow. I figured that GIMP was either poorly designed or simply didn’t have the functionality at all and quickly lost faith in it. Around a year ago though, I started exploring it more seriously as I had switched to Linux at home. For some reason, this time I had a ‘flashback’ to when I’d been lost and frustrated when I first started learning Photoshop 20 years ago. After investing some time in watching some GIMP tutorials, reading some articles/forums/documentation and messing around - in exactly the same way as I had with Photoshop - I was able to work 95% as effectively in GIMP as in PS.

I’ve also explored switching to it from Photoshop in a professional setting and what I’ve concluded is that there are a few tools that currently work more efficiently in PS (and some in GIMP to be fair, although less of them), printing is less flexible (at least on Windows 10/11) and that hardware acceleration would be welcome! Once you know where everything is in the menus and dialogues and either learn or change the keyboard shortcuts, the UI is not such a barrier to using GIMP effectively in my opinion.

Where it is a barrier though is when you’ve been using Photoshop week in week out for a couple of decades and it’s seared into your neural pathways! Even now, because I’m still using Photoshop at work, I get mixed up. As things stand right now, with Adobe’s vast resources and the fact that Photoshop has become a universal standard for raster editing, it will be hard for something like GIMP to catch up with it in popularity, let alone overtake it and start setting the agenda for UI/UX expectations. GIMP developers have to spread comparatively minuscule volunteer hours between adding new features, innovating new ones, fixing bugs and improving the UX. On the one hand I think it would be sad to see GIMP losing some of its identity in attempting to be a direct clone of Photoshop but on the other hand I think that it may be the only way it will win over enough users from Photoshop to break out into the mainstream and receive the support that it needs to develop at a faster pace. It should definitely be pointed out too that Adobe are also actively making their own offering worse by ‘enshittifying’ it, seeking to exploit users work and becoming unreliable on some people’s hardware. Just the fact that nobody can be sure whether or not work done for clients using Adobe software can be exclusive any more blows my mind in a professional context.

TLDR: I think GIMP is great but different, just got an awesome update, and has every chance of getting even better!

Sorry, I wasn’t expecting to write such a long comment. Time to have lunch!

That’s cheating!

But then I have been on 3.0rc2… 🤫

Yeah that would be sweet!

Yes I agree, great news!

Just to clarify for anyone reading this who hasn’t heard - GIMP 3.0 brings non-destructive editing.

It looks like the UI is going to be pretty similar for the time being but the developers have set up dedicated groups to work on it. I’m probably one of the rare people who is used to it/likes it as it is and doesn’t really want to re-learn it if it changes but anything that helps new people get involved and feel positive using and improving GIMP is welcome in my book. On the surface it might look like all that has happened in 3.0 is the introduction of Layer Effects but my understanding is that the whole thing has been re-written to make it easier and faster to make future progress with it. Hopefully this will be a reboot for GIMP!

Finally a tip; to rotate a layer press Shift+R :)

Haha it’s OK, I’ve been testing out the pre-release versions - you should be able find everything :)

Are Layer Effects not enough for ya?!