Nyonnyan

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Draw the most intricate, gorgeous eyes the world has ever seen.

While I do know this was written partially as a joke, let me rant for a lil bit. Art for me is the expression of emotions and intend, someone's view of the world, and someone's desire to tell a story. Art is much reflection on one self as well as said reflection expressed in ways of creation. Let's say someone makes a mechanical calculator today, what does it tell me about the person who build it? Their love for mechanical automation, the play of physics and interactions thereof with the human concept of numbers, someone's general curiosity how everything plays together; a fascination with nature and everything born off of it. Let's say someone draws an eye, the media most humans use to observe everything and being observed, a media used to shape who we are, so what can we represent with that? Parts of someone's personality and current emotion (shape of eyes, muscle movement/placement around those [the way an eye is open], tears), they can represent who someone is, what defines then, do they have a gray stare? The color of their iris, the size of their pupil, reflections inside the eyes or lack thereof; a literal representation of human nature and the state of their wellbeing. So then, what if an artists just bucket fills a canvas red without deeper meaning? Well are you sure there is no deeper meaning? What if the intend of the art wasn't pretty picture but rather you reflecting on yourself and your current emotional state? If you pay money for an museum exhibition and see that, a square of red, will you not feel ripped off? You paid money for art, youre seeing a solid color, its a scam! Then reflect, isn't that exactly the desired art, not the picture but how you feel, your emotions? What does red often represent? Its used to attract attention, it represents anger, love; you see the art because of how bold it is, a square of nothing in a museum, then you feel anger, you've been ripped of, and after thinking about it you love it, because the art wasn't pretty picture, but the intend of making you feel emotions, a bold exclamation of human nature, emotions and self reflection; you are the art.

What about someone trying to tell a story but fail? What drives someone to do something like telling a story, creating a world, without knowing how. What brings someone to try something they never did, a story that inevitably isn't as good as desired and full of plotholes? Its someone's unapologetic intend to speak, a representation of who they are, that they are interested enough in trying to create something dearly for them, to not give up until they hit upload for the world to read a small slice of their creativity and desire to experience and let others experience.

Art is not just pretty picture, art is everything.

And even besides that, what does it matter as long as you have fun? If youre practicing for a decade something like this, fun, should have already struck, so just keep going and enjoy yourself :3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Choosing violence, I opt for "Berliner kreppel"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The best that I can think of that fits those requironments would be Linux mint. When downloading you can select between 3 different Editions, whose only difference is the desktop, all this boils down to is how it looks, so just select whatever looks best to you.

Now something to keep in mind when switching to linux; while you will be able to do all that youd want on a PC on linux, some software that you might use and be accustomed to (like the adobe suit) might not be supported on linux (like the adobe suit) so youd need to find alternatives. Linux was designed around terminals, 'cmd' on windows, so while you can do most in a GUI, you will more often than not find tutorials using said terminals. And unlike on windows with guis, terminals have both direct system access, as well was expect you to know what you are doing, so read what it prints, its important.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Win32 is a collection of windows APIs that allows applications to freely take use of windows. The problem being that 99% of current windows applications use win32 APIs, so all those programs would just be dead unless the alternative is api compatible. So in order to kill win32 Microsoft would have to release an api compatible alternative.

So what would happen if they did that? That is kill win32 and add an api compatible alternative? Best case scenario: nothing changes. Worse case scenario: every single standalone exe would be dead

So why kill win32? Power; by lets say locking the new api behind the windows store, they basically fully lock all applications to ever be redistributed to said windows store, killing steam, itch, epic games, and every single exe in existence. The only way applications would exist is by approval of Microsoft.

Now obviously this will never happen.

The entire premise of win32 shutting down is made up by people not understanding what they are talking about. However as a corporation, valve rather spends money on an alternative to be able to tell Microsoft, that they are able to significantly influence window's desktop marketshare, than to let Microsoft do whatever they want, even if it is mostly just smaller things.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

The difference between Lovecraft and Rowling is, lovecraft doesnt make a profit off of his stuff anymore

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have been using steamvr on linux since a while now, getting close to the mythical 1000h playtime. while it mostly works on paar with windows, there is a single drawback that might make it impossible for people to play on linux, being async. Which works on amd, but isnt supported by nvidia drivers.

While that isnt really a problem in openvr if you can maintain your headsets display refresh rate or in games without a lot of movement (example vrchat), its missing in nvidia drivers results people with an nvidia card not being able to play any openxr games (example newer versions of beatsaber), as openxr hard depends on it. Stupidly enough, openxr games still work with async disabled, but refuse to if your drivers dont support it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

>.bin I feel like thats not now it works. Clearly, we should progress beyond traditional ~~gender identity~~ boolean computation and progress to ternary computation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Correct, but so is linux itself as seen here, likewise, Microsoft also helps the development of the linux kernel as seen on this Linux Foundation webpage. Sometimes ad services sponsor non ad related projects.

In the case of firefox however, they are funded by google to have it be the default search engine, and not because Firefox itself sells ad spaces. So I dont quite get the point you are making

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I have been a i3 user for a few years now, honestly, the only reason I still keep my mouse around is to occasionally play some video games.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK on tumblr hastags (tags) aren't visible by default, so when people want to say something without breaking the flow of a conversation (jokes or extensions of ones own comment) they put it in said tags #this #is #the #reason #why #some #parts #of #this #post #is #in #light #theme #and #some #not, #they #are #screenshots

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You may want to take a look at dvorak-intl and or dvorak-alt-intl, which adds the alt-gr layer to type language specific characters

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