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mamonoleechi··on Researchers discover why plastic sheds dangerous fragments
It depends where you live, but a lot of countries make you pay glass bottles now ; a fee that you get back once you take the empty bottle back to the supermarket.

It does not prevent people from throwing them, but since you get money from them, homeless people usually gather them to make some money.

mamonoleechi··on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs
It's easy to change keybindings on Gimp, most of mines are ones i used in photoshop 4-CS2.

>It finally has non-destructive editing

not for the fonts unfortunately, if you resize a text with the scale tool, it gets rasterized

mamonoleechi··on Show HN: I built website for sharing Drum Patterns
thanks to share this ; i had no idea of the existence of this gem! the interface is a bit rough, but it does the job
mamonoleechi··on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges
Thanks to share! any estimate on how many regular text page can you print with your 20€ cartridge?

I have some questions: - what model did you buy for 50€ ? was it second hand? (i only see 150+€ pantum laser printers) - any links to buy the printer/cartridge ; i'm super interested!

mamonoleechi··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
> why couldn't I just regain control from the AppleID that had been logged in for years from the phone?

Maybe Apple is doing this in an automated way to prevent people using several accounts for storage.

On Google Drive, if you run out of space, you can create a new account, and switch when needed.

mamonoleechi··on Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin
a bit (un)related but is it somehow possible to resize text layers without pixelating them on Gimp? i stopped searching years ago
mamonoleechi··on Writing a Gimp 3.0 Plugin
I switched from Photoshop CS to Gimp, and it took me 5 years at the time :) I kept on working on CS for that time, and ran gimp on the side on a VM running linux (it was the crunchbang distribution, a cool debian distrib).

Gimp's Dotfiles on Linux are really well done, once your settings are done, you keep them forever (i barely changed them now for a decade).

I was really used to Photoshop (used it from photoshop 4 to CS) ; a good idea would be to change Gimp's bindings to the one you have on photoshop.

Some stuff won't work as well as Photoshop, the best is to experiment, and find alternatives maybe not in the most optimal way.

I used to produce pictures, and then tried to do the same thing on Gimp, using the same source files. Stopping when I was stuck, trying to find other ways to work.

mamonoleechi··on Why blog if nobody reads it?
is the bash script you use to generate the website public?

i like this minimal fast approach to blogging (also loves bash scripts).

mamonoleechi··on Dragonsweeper — A minesweeper game that requires observation
Similar to Mamonosweeper, a 10 year old game from a japanese dev: https://hojamaka.com/game/mamono_sweeper_h2/html5/en.html (playable in html5 there).

This game was released on android at a point (and removed from the store later). It's my favorite game ever.

  This is a cross between Minesweeper and an RPG.

  You gain levels by killing weak monsters and win when you defeat them all.

  It's a bit different than Minesweeper in that the number you reveal when you click on a square is the total of the levels of the monsters in adjacent squares.

  When you click on a tile with a monster in it, a battle begins.

  First you attack, and deal damage (equal to your level) to the monster. On the next turn, if the monster is still alive, it attacks you back. Your attacks alternate until one of you dies. You don't see this, though -- the battle plays out instantly after you click.
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