I'm not sure but I'm sharing this for interest sake

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"I was wrong"

I love being wrong, it's the gateway to new knowledge, but other people view not knowing through a self-esteem lens

In a way yes. There are times when I am so sick of dealing with people who cannot organize their thoughts - it becomes just exhausting.

So consistently being the most analytical, on-the-ball, ahead of the curve, able to predict the future, able to see-through people within seconds of meeting them, being generally good at most things, adept automatically the first time I try anything... It's a burden.

But at the same time I'm not so dumb to think I don't choose this burden.

Yes I'm being a jerk. Dude is a complete addict and needs HELP

I went back and played The Dungeon about 15 years ago and I just about cried because it was so fucking bad by modern standards lol

The hard truth is that if you want change you have to change and there's nothing else to it

You have to try new things even if you think you're going to hate them

There's no getting around it

I took my own advice. I'm not saying it's easy, it's work

I guess if you find it funny it might help you ease feelings

All that conjures in my mind though is a mouse furiously hammering on a lever trying to get a pellet

It's also the 1st round top left question

I felt extremely sad reading this. I understand what your perspective is, but what I'm hearing is an addict freaking out.

Doubtful

I'm not talking out my ass, a good buddy of mine worked for frantic films for decades and I myself learned 3D alongside him... We would squabble over the rendering farm too..

Anyways most of the renderers made for those early movies were custom built. And anytime you custom build, you can't generalize to output to a different system. So it's a long way of saying no but maybe, if you wrote a custom renderer that was specifically designed to handle the architecture of the scenes and the art and the lighting and blah blah blah

Edit oh and you would probably need the Lord of all graphics cards, possibly multiple in a small array with custom therading software

The ones that do it for family and friends get away with it, the ones that get peppy and decide to start flogging groceries, etc on Fb Marketplace get watched. It's really not something you want to try to profit from!!

All the word games in the world don't change the underlying truth and you know it. McDonald's is awful it's not even food, music is similar, most of it is not really even music, the same way McDonald's isn't even food, it's hyper engineered food ingredients. I know it hurts to accept that most popular music is dog shit but that's the truth and you know it's true.

The guideline is 3 months but it is entirely dependent on how often you run your furnace, and how dusty or pet-filled your environment is.

I used to manage buildings, so I would deal with hundreds of filters at a time, people with pets or those who ran the circulation function continually needed 3-month replacement. Other people who did not run the fan continuously and did not keep pets, and stayed clean, you could easily get away with a year.

You have to hold the filter up to the light to know, there's no way to judge it based on time it's just not useful

Last year, it's shit you're not going to change my mind

I really don't think I'm overstating things, I go back to the early 90s, I started with Harvard graphics and stuff like that.. I have used so many damn image editing softwares, and I've even made a few of my own.

I'm honestly going to just plant my foot and say gimp is a misbegotten atrocious lump of shit from a UI perspective - a complete embarrassment, and a complete failure from any perspective of usability science

It is absolutely at the bottom of the pack of any piece of software I have ever used, it's hard to pick up various bunches of shit and decide what lump smells the worst, so I'm not going to say gimp is the worst, but it's floating at the bottom of the septic tank

I cannot believe that people continue to step up and defend it, it's garbage.

Just take a step back and look at how you are deciding what is good before you understand the application the tool is being put to

You're asking me to suggest alternatives... FOR WHAT? You apply tools to specific problems, you do not pick a tool and then decide it's the best tool.

I disagree.

Just in the same way we can point to McDonald's and say there is nothing good about it from a food perspective; that it barely even qualifies as food...

We can say the same thing about music. There is music that is so devoid of any kind of artistic output and merit, that no one could say it's good. In 2025 are still listening to musical greats from several hundred years go but in 50 years, nobody will have a clue who Nikki Manaj is

You have proven my point, you don't seem to understand that *nix and all it's variants, and all the FOSS built on top of it it's just one set of tools in a gigantic suite of available tools, and there are specific uses, and it's totally inappropriate to ever talk about it as the best tool for anything, ever.

Gimp is what happens when programmers think that they can design things