Yes, gimp can (ordinarily) read plugins from the home directory. It seems that the guix install of GIMP is isolated somehow. I’ve installed a plugin using guix and that isn’t accessible either, despite both it and GIMP being installed as guix packages.

So he was smoking hemp?

Capybaras are the best. I wish Hailsham was closer

“Fish and chips por favor.”

Take a look at Rawtherapee - I found it much easier to get into than Darktable. It doesn’t really do management of a library of images but you can use Digikam or Shotwell for that and set Rawtherapee as the external RAW editor. If you want to quickly evaluate and rate image files nothing beats Geeqie though in my experience.

Re GIMP: On large files I’ve noticed significant improvements to performance by setting the image encoding to 32bit linear floating point. Gimp uses this behind the scenes for processing anyway, so it doesn’t have to do any extra conversion while you’re editing. Just be aware that you’ll want to be using a linear icc profile too or your images will be dark, and make sure to convert it appropriately before exporting. If you’re using the built-in sRGB profile GIMP should take care of everything for you though.

Also check in your preferences that you are allowing GIMP enough access to your CPU and memory.

GIMP’s defaults are really good imo, but if you deviate from them in one area you need to know how to set the others in accordance with it to get images looking like you expect. It can be complicated to fully understand it all, but if you experiment with 1) the encoding settings 2) your image’s icc profile and 3) the display profile you should be able to settle on a workflow that works for you. It’s all configurable, you just need to find the right combo 👍

Also bear in mind that the file sizes you see reported in GIMP are their size in RAM, as opposed to their size when exported to disk and include all the extra non-destructive stuff GIMP is using while working on your project. Saved XCF projects will be large for this reason too, but when you export as an image file like .tif or .jpg the file size on disk will be as expected. Personally, I like seeing my RAM getting properly utilised as it’s much faster than my disk…

Put it this way: if you you don’t tell them about your other problems what will happen?

The NHS exists for your health, not for the convenience of receptionists or any other employee, despite how they might try to make you feel otherwise.

This isn’t a moral or political point. If you insist on your health issues being addressed they will see to it. You have rights.

The culture of fobbing people off probably does reduce load on the NHS in the short term because it deters timewasters, but it also deters people with genuine problems who are entitled to treatment.

If it makes you feel better about ‘being a burden’ just remember that you will be more resource-intensive for them to treat the longer your issues are left to worsen.

I think they might have peaked too early. Or rather Trumpism has peaked and is visibly failing too soon before a UK general election where Reform can expect enough people to buy their implementation of it.

Crazy - it hasn’t happened again since my original post, until literally just now. I come on Lemmy to look for the thread and remind myself how to fix it, and here is your comment!

I’ll have a look, thanks :) How is it less secure?

This ‘centrist’ hegemony is collapsing here in the UK. For generations there has been a prevailing belief that a vote for anyone outside of the Labour/Conservative duopoly would be wasted, and they have been free to abuse that. People on both the left and right are sick of it now though.

Very interesting question.

I don’t really know any Muslim doctrine but I think you could make the argument from first principles that if the ‘owner’ of the original work is not deprived of it then it doesn’t qualify as theft.

Also, does Islam have a concept of all things ultimately belonging to god? In which case they cannot really be stolen in a strict sense.

Did it work?

This has proven to be the one 👍

Beans actually have plenty of protein in them. They’re also high in fibre.

Were they uninsured?

Man, I would love to do some cycle touring…

I don’t have any experience with open bike computers but I did set up a very old Fairphone 2 running Fairphone Open and the OsmAnd app for this. In airplane mode and only GPS for location the battery life was incredible, even without making use of spares. And you can of course import & export gpx tracks freely in OsmAnd, which is basically the best app ever.

A totally viable solution.

That’s really funny - I’m definitely running a Shadow IT Operation at my workplace! My attitude is that as long as my output is interoperable with the software and systems that my colleagues are using I should be free to work however I like.

For a bit of perspective: I was brought up vegetarian and was surrounded by other vegetarians as a child. My parents were vegetarian and I’m bringing up my children vegetarian (more vegan actually).

Eating meat has essentially become unthinkable in the micro-culture and tradition of my family, and I expect this to continue. There is no ‘perseverence’ in it - it’s simply a fact about what we consider to be food.

I expect there to be non-meat options and don’t feel socially excluded because my diet is non-typical, because this is how I was brought up and how my values were shaped as a child. It was more controversial in my parents day, but I’m grateful that they made the decision and that mainstream culture has become mostly accepting of it now.

I guess what I want to say is a) you exert an influence on culture, even if it takes time, generations even, and b) you can afford to not be overly sensitive to social judgement.

There’s no IT department as such - it’s a small business. My boss had everything set up by a guy who moved away and if there’s a problem these days he gets people from the local computer shop to come over! All the other machines here are running Windows.

Adjusting the soil mix sounds like a good idea. Could you also have the upper pots dipping more shallowly into the water, reducing their wicking surface?

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