Gift cards say, “I could have just given you cash, but I wasn’t considerate enough to also give the freedom to buy what you want. I have therefore restricted you to store of my choosing, for if I cared at all about you, I’d actually have been able to buy a suitable gift myself.”

Also, kids on their way to school

(for whatever reason)

If you look at their post and comment history, it’s not such a mystery as to why they were banned

That user is infamous for being a massive piece of shit. A cur.

Domestically, it’s the ATF that does this

Apple’s prices have been more reasonable in recent years, although still above-market. and the Mac Mini is a pretty powerful little machine for a good price.

I actually have Krita. I use it for creating digital art with my tablet. I don’t really use it for editing/compositing like PS.

I do a few different types of graphic design and photo editing for some different clients, but it’s more about the workflows I’ve worked out in PS. GiMP does things very differently, and I think that’s why a lot of PS users hate it. I sure do. it took me years to master PS. I don’t want to have to go through all of that again, and I certainly don’t have the time.

I will check out the plugin you mentioned. I’ve heard of it, but didn’t think much of it before.

lol, eat me hahaha

interesting you should mention your old machine. I recently upgraded my 2016 MacBook Pro to a M4 Pro MBP. Photoshop ran fine on the old one. Great, actually. The only difference I noticed was that PS launches faster and opens files faster, buuuut… that’s about it. PS already ran fine on my 9 y/o MBP. the new machine didn’t improve much, other than the RAM, which allows me to have more large docs open at once.

my last machine only had 16GB of ram, whereas this new one has 48GB (the max for the MBP). still, the performance is pretty close-- although my old machine would probably struggle if I had a bunch of large PSDs open.

as an investment, I didn’t really have a choice-- my old MBP died (ssd fried). I love this new machine, tho. it’s very fast.

I opened Photoshop, and I left it open with no document open. Just the main window. It started at 11 GB of RAM and went up to 28 gb without me doing anything.

If there was anything that was as good as Photoshop, I’d have switched years ago. But I’ve tried the alternatives, and they’re just is nothing like it. Same for InDesign. Affinity photo is really really close, but it’s just not the same.

I’ve been using Photoshop for over 30 years. Even when the time comes, making the switch will be very difficult.

edit: I just tried opening PS again and letting it sit. it’s hovering around 3-3.5GB of ram usage. I think that last attempt was a fluke.

This is from Senator Chuck Grassley, not Chuck Schumer

Pray that you didn’t end up in CECOT

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

• Hanlon’s razor

Once upon a time, this “political extremism“ used to just simply be called “being a decent human being“. How far we’ve fallen.

You can’t sling shit if no one will get near you

Except, ironically, shit. But don’t be that person.

A character that looked like Jar Jar was eventually redeemed in a scene from the Mandalorian, so I guess I’d have to go with that.

Strange coincidence that this all starts coming back as soon as the Epstein files are getting released…

Turds of a feather…