ugh I host my domains with them, but probably high time I switched away :/

edit: and done! switched to a local host :)

Lawnchair worked out pretty well for me, might be worth a try for you too? I just had to ignore that their promotional screenshots are all boring monochrome, turns out the launcher itself doesn’t force any colours :)

Not paying for Adobe, but tried out Inkscape as an Illustrator alternative and damn its UI just felt so unintuitive - many tools and menus were laid out by a different logic than the one I’m used to. Also it still doesn’t properly support CMYK colours from what I can see on their website.

ew… it is my favourite launcher but I disabled updates once it got acquired 😭

Does anyone know of a launcher with similar customisability? All the active launchers I found focus on minimalism and no or monochrome icons, while Nova lets me arrange my colourful icons in whatever way I want, reskin them, etc 😐

Edit: Lawnchair’s Nova backup import feature in their newest beta release pushed me to try it out, let’s see 👀

Edit 2: ok it seems to only have lost my home-pinned website bookmarks, so this could be a workable solution 😊

and an SEO that would make The North Face say “Yeah, I’ll perform meticulous, reputation-damaging sabotage for that.”

Thanks, this sent me down a rabbit hole reading about the incident :D

If anyone else is interested: Conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia - The North Face

This became the most popular instance bc Lemmy’s devs run their own lemmy.ml instance with a strong tankie moderation angle, and many people don’t like that.

I’m using the cracked versions released by m0nkrus, and they have worked reliably over the years.

Predictably Adobe’s apps are now full of genAI crap, but sadly(?) they still release useful new features as well, so I keep them up to date.

Thanks, I’ll check out Where Winds Meet! :)

(Edit: according to their Steam page they use genAI dialogue and art, so that’s a pass :/ )

Dunno about current adobes, but don’t they also run fine via wine? Have only one single tool so far that makes a bit trouble (mediamonkey).

From the reports I see on WineHQ, they are all various levels of broken, though the last versions tested were from 2024.

I still find them annoyingly unintuitive

Haha yes, when I had to use a Mac once in uni it was like they made a point of doing everything just different enough from Windows to be annoying, like why are the window close buttons on the left?!

Thanks, that’s good to know! From what I’ve read a few months ago when I last looked into it, it only worked with a fan-made launcher that posed a ban risk and also broke every few updates.

You could vote with your wallet and just not play those specific ones.

Oh I’m not paying for them, but still one of my main daily drivers is Genshin, and I haven’t found such an enjoyable open world exploration in any other game I’ve tried. (I’m PC-only so haven’t tried Breath of the Wild.)

Regarding Adobe suite in a professional manner, I’m pretty sure they work on MacOS.

I would never touch a Mac, it’s way more of a walled garden than Windows.

Also I was talking about Adobe alternatives like Inkscape for Illustrator or Scribus for InDesign. From what I’ve read they are really not there yet. (Tried Inkscape a few times, but the UI is so unintuitive for my brain used to Adobe’s UI/workflow 😭)

Gives 6 more years for Adobe and my online games to start supporting Linux D: (or the Adobe alternatives to become more suitable for professional use)

Thank you it does show local stations, though from what I see their web journey planner is under construction :)

this does work in Glasgow, neat!

I did a test of it in Glasgow UK just now, and it didn’t offer any public transport options. (And the UI tooltips are in French.)

sadly Transportr’s European coverage is woeful according to their map :/

It has to be said, they originally changed their stance due to the considerable editor pushback when they tried to introduce LLM summaries on the top of articles. So kudos to the editor community’s resistance! ✊

Thanks!

I may switch to them as my primary provider. They seem to source results from Bing, and with the noai prefix hopefully won’t keep turning on AI summary like Ecosia does 😑

What has worked nice for me is to listen to the AccuRadio channel of the genre I’m in the mood for, and rate the songs. Then later when I have the time, I look at my ratings history page and download the ones I rated high from youtube in mp3, so I can have my own local “radio stations” of the songs I enjoy. Then months later, when/if I got bored of them, I can go back to AccuRadio and see what new songs they added in the meantime.