@union (This kind of thing is considered to be "kitsch" by the art world though and frowned upon.)
@union I imagine the best place for someone who wants to paint realistic looking portraits would be to get into the business of painting what doesn't exist in a realistic fashion, so science fiction portraiture.
@union One thing I've heard more of on this is more that photography is what decreased demand for this kind of realistic portraiture. Having a painting like the one on the left was expensive, and if you can get equally good results from a fraction of the cost, then you're only going to get a small number of people going through with the older technology. (Such as the presidential portraits that are painted still.)
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/the-lunduke-journal-podcast-10-system76 I'm pretty much with Lunduke on this one, It doesn't make me use S76 less, and doesn't make me use Gnome more or less. I've largely been fed up with Gnome and their "our way or the highway" attitude for years. I choose Highway.
@fribbledom Oops, I missed the poll. Yes, working color laser printer, but it's all the way out in the garage so it's a paint to go pick up the things I print. Networked though, so I can just print from anywhere in the house.
Finally halted all of the mastodon processes on my other vps. At the same time, I rebuilt my blog from Jekyll over to Hugo, and made it take over that entire domain. That's two Ruby-based things excised at the same time. Haven't decided if I'm going to keep that vps going or not, and if I don't, where I should move my hugo blog. both cloudflare, and my pleroma server are options.
@pro I think about 9-10 years ago I swapped over to Zoho for my domain. Its interface isn't quite as good and it costs a bit per year, but it gives me more control over the spam settings.
@quantum @ihorner In particular, them making a very good reader for free with sharing, sucking in everyone to use their service for RSS, then murdering it lead to a slow decline in RSS, and probably Google's prospects for getting new users for their future services as well. Of course, many users jumped ship for Feedly and Newsblur and kept using RSS.
@corvus My main setup here is a deskop with 3 monitors and KDE, with a side monitor hooked to a laptop with xfce. Use the side monitor for chatting and watching videos. That system is really low end though, so I'm thinking about switching it to i3.
@corvus I use KDE on several systems, XFCE on a couple, MATE on one, IceWM, Ratpoison, i3, Enlightenment and xmonad occasionally on others. Gnome I avoid wherever possible to avoid lock-in. I also use Haiku occasionally, but it's not a unix DE, but a separate OS with its own gui.
Update on that old mastodon server, apparently that 844 got down to 817 before it gave up, so some of them were just temporarily down. That's still a big mess of servers that it couldn't deregister itself from. I guess I need to figure out a new use for that server now.
@stuff That's one unfortunate thing about federation, my first instance, freehold.earth iirc, ended up getting extremely outdated because they didn't update their software for a long time, and then finally just dropped it. Luckily I had moved to my own instance before theirs closed.
Just finally took down my old mastodon server. There's 844 sites that it's trying to contact to unregister itself, but that aren't loading. I wonder if they're just temporarily down, or if they're sites that they were taken down without properly self destructing.