Um . . . not familiar with this . . . ? Sounds scary maybe

EDIT: Ah, I see. Scary acronym. I need to self-criticize now because of a bourgeois and improper reaction to SLUM. Well, live and learn . . . 🤦‍♂️

I know exactly how you feel. However, I have recently encountered a number of very young, highly intelligent people who are indeed vibrant and actually do give me some hope for the future (EDIT: both of whom, it turns out, are in the healthcare profession, so maybe there will actually be some people left to take care of me and Mrs. Erinaceus as we decline—dare to dream!) But otherwise, yeah, capitalism, late or otherwise, the aftermath of 2008, and the pandemic—many of these things are still slowly draining the life force out of older folks like me.

One word: owlbears.

I’ve got a VPN and am using Mullvad Browser, any issues there? It keeps asking me how damn high the stupid fluffy little animals are jumping, over and over again . . .

Verbal abuse.

Have a look at this episode of PBS Frontline: Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?

You can always check AlternativeTo for FOSS (and non-US based) software alternatives.

1.Tineye? Not sure if it’s FOSS tho…

There’s Instant Street View, tho it’s just I guess a wrapper (???) for Google SV.

I hear ya. I have never had good luck with Scribus despite several dedicated tries. Still kind of learning Inkscape; I mentioned Krita instead of GIMP because it has full CMYK support. Depends on what your needs are I guess! 🙂

As far as InDesign—I don’t think it will probably ever have 1:1 feature parity, but LibreOffice Writer has recently gotten some new features that allow for more fine-tuned word and letter spacing as well as glyph scaling. A paragraph composer is on the horizon as well. There’s also Inkscape and Krita, but I’m guessing you probably already know about those…

EDIT: Also agitating for optical margin alignment on Writer; will see how that goes…

This is several years old, does it still work? Not sure that it does, but thanks nonetheless for posting.

😁👍

Literature 📚

Will do, thank you 👍. For the record, looks like ebooks purchased from Google Play Store still use crackable Adobe DRM. I’d prefer to buy from ebooks.com, but I refuse to be confined to one app or device by fucking DRM. I don’t like giving money to Google, but if you have GrapheneOS you’re already forking out big bucks to them for a Pixel phone, though hopefully in the future it’ll be able to run on Motorola . . .

Looks like ebooks purchased from Google Play Store still use crackable Adobe DRM. I’d prefer to buy from ebooks.com, but I refuse to be confined to one app or device by fucking DRM. I don’t like giving money to Google, but if you have GrapheneOS you’re already forking out big bucks to them for a Pixel phone, though hopefully in the future it’ll be able to run on Motorola . . .

Puyi: From emperor to gardener

(Better than just putting him up against the wall, I guess, right?)

ebooks.com

There’s this, but anyone know where I can get Thorium 3.10?

EDIT: Was hoping for Calibre plugin(s) . . .

EDIT EDIT: Tried this without success:

https://github.com/Leseratte10/lcpl-calibre-plugin

https://repo.or.cz/DeDRM_tools-LCP.git

There’s this, an article from Art in America, which I’m in the process of reading now.