Seems about the same?

Agreed, most of the characters in the book are so flat, and only do things because the plot needed them to do that thing.

The Netflix series managed to make the character’s motivations seem more believable which I appreciated.

If only they had functional data backup and export on non-Android platforms…

I just wish Signal had better history and backup features.

Yup. Lest we forget, Android is Linux-based, and it’s the most popular consumer operating system in the world.

Well, to quote a classic film:

“Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb.”

New Coke was the 80s, not 70s — they actually briefly brought it back as part of a Stranger Things tie-in. Super interesting to actually taste it.

I miss AskScienceFiction; it was always fun reading those in-universe answers.

There’s one here on LemmyWorld, but it’s pretty dead: [email protected]

Wow, the level of detail on this theme is really impressive!

As as aside, I didn’t realize that GTK had officially banned theming. That seems…dumb.

IIRC, my dad bought progressives from Zenni and said they were as good as the ones he got from an optician.

I think so, I believe you can open them in Books via the Files app on iOS.

Depends on the platform.

If you’re on an Apple device at least, the built-in Books app works great for reading ePub files.

The problem typically isn’t that the community doesn’t exist – the problem is that it does exist but is empty or mostly empty.

It’s using the MLMYM frontend, which you can actually use via the official MLMYM website with any instance. For example, here is it pointing to lemmy.ml:

https://mlmym.org/lemmy.ml/

It’s another frontend – specifically, it’s this: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

You actually did it! Amazing! Thank you so much!

Anyway, I wasn’t aware that GIMP UX suffers, I’ve never used anything else and am happy with it.

My argument here is that by never having used anything else, you wouldn’t necessarily realize how much better other UX choices could have been.

That said, I do have to give the devs some credit, as they have fixed two major issues, by adding single-window-mode and unifying the transform tools. Having each transform be its own separate tool was just awful UX IMO.

The biggest remaining UX problem, in my opinion, is the way GIMP forces layers to have fixed boundaries. Literally no other layer-based image editor has fixed layer boundaries, because it makes very little sense as a concept. Layers should solely be defined by their content, not by arbitrary layer properties set in a dialog box.

Honestly I feel like this attitude is the reason GIMP’s UX suffers. They’re so determined to be “not like photoshop” that they’re unwilling to fix some of their more boneheaded UI decisions out of fear that they’d be seen as copying photoshop.

Remember that Android is Linux-based – so keeping that in mind, a massive amount of normal users use Linux on a daily basis.

I think the key is, operating systems are meant to exist in the background. If it’s working well, you don’t think about it at all.