#Forever Open Source

[rustyscreech]

open source software is literally one of the most amazing things in the world and it can save us I'm not kidding. steeping your work into mostly open source software feels freeing and like you're actually connected to people like the fucking purpose of the internet. every time I look up blender addons and come across a new github repo I feel like I've reached nirvana

[incorrect-supercorp]

Kara, opening the fridge: Love is an open door!

Lena: Why am I in love with you.

[quailxcrossing]

My most controversial opinion is that MSpaint is a fine art program. I started drawing more in it intentionally out of spite because I kept seeing people just completely trash it and guess I get it it doesn't have a billion layer modes or pens or even layers itself but it's not for that. It's not truly for digital art in the modern day as we know it I think. I think it's for painting. And I think it's pretty good at painting. The couple of paintings that I've done in it I was very impressed by the pen control and textures of the paint brushes... I also think it's very good at pixel art! Actual little sprites!! And as someone who has made cleanlined colored full bodies in it, yeah its a fucking pain in the ass. But I think I like drawing an MS paint for the same reason I like making comics in sketchbooks smaller than my hand. I think it's a perfectly fine program for what it is! It's made for paintings and sprites and scribbly one pixel brush sized vent art when nothing else feels good but the scratch against the graphics tablet like tearing up a paper with a mechanical pencil

[mosstrades]

im someone who stuggles not to let his curiosity and drive sometimes (often) cross over into an overwhelming and maladaptive need for answers, for explanation, for certainty. someone who, historically, sees making art as a primarily intellectual exercise. this is not inherently a bad thing, we all have our temperaments and this kind of attention can be a strength. but, you know that artist who makes a painting, and then only wants to show it while explaining it to you? thats me, sometimes, more often than i like. every story i used to write had another hundred page document behind it, explicating every single choice -- often i would simply read that, instead of ever actually write the story itself. the explanation precedes everything. the answers alone are the experience.

david lynch's work and philosphy has been and is a vital foothold in my efforts to learn to love the questions as our breath. learn to appreciate intuition and dreams, trust them instead of fear them. learn to see that the world has so much confusing, uncertain, strange beauty, that can be terrifying but turns sublime when you cease rejecting it from fear. when you embrace the unknown and dont try to immediately & anxiously explicate it all away, a whole new world opens up to you. that you need the darkness in order to dream, and you need dreams in order to live fully immersed in what the world has to offer. a foothold in learning to be okay with abstraction, with imperfect subjectivity, with uncertainty. to know it is not anthitetical to truth and meaning. know that to skillfully make ideas come alive into a work *is* to rationally pin them down, but that you cannot lose sight of the intuition they were born as.

his artistic intuition reminds me of what i need to have -- the trust and humility for experiencing the inexplicable and understanding that to be enough. a devotion to ideas and their realisation. a balancing force, for my endless inquiry -- to not forget to live the question in my the search for an answer. to allow some thing to go without clear or universal explanation, allow for some things to remain unresolved, allow for others to have that be their resolution. it's why his work equal parts captivates me and disturbs me -- i am very bad at this. but feel in my heart a need to get better at it. to be a better artist, a better thinker, a better searcher, a better person. you need to feel it, intuitively, quiet your endless noisy need for an answer and simply let it fill you up, let it resonate intuitively, and find in that how life makes sense to you and you alone. mediation, mindfulness, humility to sit with abstraction without trying to pin it down. more and more i try to understand this. some things don't need to make perfect sense. some things dont need answers, or their answers are not the point. some things dont need anything but to be experienced as they enter you -- like dreams do. that can lead you to the answer, and that can also be enough in itself. that can be just an intrinsic value in being alive to experience it. and so often, it is all in conversation with the search for joy. it's why he feels so captivating, so unique, so tremendously alive. why people use the word "visionary" when talking about him. because he knew how to use his medium in all the potential he could see, so that it let you live in the strangeness and questions. he understood them as sublime, he understood them as enough, he understood them as a joy. he understood them as beautiful. and his memory will remind me to do the same; always to seek the space to dream.

[orionsangel86]

Sometimes I come across posts on here and I can't help but think - this should be published in a best selling book. It makes me sad that so many people are missing out on some of the absolute best stories, best poetry, best quotes, that I've certainly ever come across.

Like its sad to think that one day all this stuff might be lost. Tumblr is filled with so much creativity. Yeah sure its also got the pineapple post and the Gringe x Tony the Tiger post up there with some of the worst things you've ever seen (in an awful yet hilarious way). But the blackout poetry, the original tumblr stories, the God of Arepo... The fact this place has its own folklore and even its own form of language, the fact that several words of the year were born here (never gonna get the suffix -ussy out of my brain thanks tumblr). The collaborative shit posts with punchlines that hit you like a ton of bricks only if you've been on this site long enough to have understood every single one of the multiple layers of meme history and tumblr in-jokes that make it work.

It's just a great place and there is nowhere else on the internet like it. So yeah. It should be immortalised in a tangible form thats all I'm saying. I just think that would be neat.

[amalgamasreal]

FOSS IS LOVE

FOSS IS LIFE

[vanalex]

[wobblydev]

i fired up defold for the first time today. after reading the documentation for lua, i think this may be the platform i use for the near future. wish me luck, friends.

[tinystepsforward]

Hell yeah let's yar arr arr big ass companies together

i'm actually shockingly bad at it for a millennial who works in tech but! yes!!

[shangsclaws]

I'm going to be honest, Shang tsun, not mt ultimate favorite... BUT THAT DRIPPPPPPPPPPPPPP. He didn't come to play

u r so real for this

[gurorori]

introject hours tbh.

it ok 2 b attached 2 yr source.. it don necessarily make the connection 'unhealthy' or 'anti-recovery', regardless if ya knew of da introjection immediately or later on. it ok 2 b comforted by yr source. it ok 2 have any specific feelings, positive or negative or neutral, ab yr source.

i think a lotta different ppl have different polarised preconceived notions of wat an introject (n i aint jus talkin ab fictional ones here btw) shud b like & how we shud behave 2 b considered a Correct kind. well. fuck dat

it is a unique experience 4 everyone & we get 2 decide our relationship with our source on our own actually.

[ladyjadefox]

I HATE CAPITALISM I HATE CAPITALISM I HATE CAPITALISM I HATE CAPITALISM I HATE CAPITALISM I HATE CAPITALISM

abandonware should be public domain. force companies to actively support and provide products if they don't wanna lose the rights to them

[the-atlas-sys]

I think that maybe I never want to see syscourse ever again. "This very common thing that you and your diagnosed system friend do means you're actually faking and you should feel bad!" is a take I've seen tonight and I think I'm tired of hearing this stuff.

Our mental disorder is very real to us. It makes every day either difficult or weird or both. It's an issue, and I really don't need to spiral or compare myself to other people just because you think I should! I'm working on getting diagnosed, and I take comfort in knowing that my diagnosed friend's system works similarly to mine no matter what soap box people here will stand on. I experience this disorder in the way my traumatized and autistic brain made it.

[frozenbassist]

Honestly, at this point you should consider switching to Linux (especially a user-friendly distro like Linux Mint, Kubuntu, or Pop!_OS). Linux is 100% free and open source, and gives you full control of your PC.

Then consider switching to free open-source software (FOSS). Use Firefox instead of Chrome, Thunderbird instead out MS Outlook, LibreOffice instead of MS Office, GIMP instead of Photoshop. There are many more examples of open-source software that replaces the commercial products. Open source software is usually developed by the community, and the source code is freely available to anyone, so you can audit it and see exactly what a program does. If you're technically inclined, you can even modify the software to fit your needs.

I don't know I'm not done talking about it. It's insane that I can't just uninstall Edge or Copilot. That websites require my phone number to sign up. That people share their contacts to find their friends on social media.

I wouldn't use an adblocker if ads were just banners on the side funding a website I enjoy using and want to support. Ads pop up invasively and fill my whole screen, I misclick and get warped away to another page just for trying to read an article or get a recipe.

Every app shouldn't be like every other app. Instagram didn't need reels and a shop. TikTok doesn't need a store. Instagram doesn't need to be connected to Facebook. I don't want my apps to do everything, I want a hub for a specific thing, and I'll go to that place accordingly.

I love discord, but so much information gets lost to it. I don't want to join to view things. I want to lurk on forums. I want to be a user who can log in and join a conversation by replying to a thread, even if that conversation was two days ago. I know discord has threads, it's not the same. I don't want to have to verify my account with a phone number. I understand safety and digital concerns, but I'm concerned about information like that with leaks everywhere, even with password managers.

I shouldn't have to pay subscriptions to use services and get locked out of old versions. My old disk copy of photoshop should work. I should want to upgrade eventually because I like photoshop and supporting the business. Adobe is a whole other can of worms here.

Streaming is so splintered across everything. Shows release so fast. Things don't get physical releases. I can't stream a movie I own digitally to friends because the share-screen blocks it, even though I own two digital copies, even though I own a physical copy.

I have an iPod, and I had to install a third party OS to easily put my music on it without having to tangle with iTunes. Spotify bricked hardware I purchased because they were unwillingly to upkeep it. They don't pay their artists. iTunes isn't even iTunes anymore and Apple struggles to upkeep it.

My TV shows me ads on the home screen. My dad lost access to eBook he purchased because they were digital and got revoked by the company distributing them. Hitman 1-3 only runs online most of the time. Flash died and is staying alive because people love it and made efforts to keep it up.

I have to click "not now" and can't click "no". I don't just get emails, they want to text me to purchase things online too. My windows start search bar searches online, not just my computer. Everything is blindly called an app now. Everything wants me to upload to the cloud. These are good tools! But why am I forced to use them! Why am I not allowed to own or control them?

No more!!!!! I love my iPod with so much storage and FLAC files. I love having all my fics on my harddrive. I love having USBs and backups. I love running scripts to gut suck stuff out of my Windows computer I don't want that spies on me. I love having forums. I love sending letters. I love neocities and webpages and webrings. I will not be scanning QR codes. Please hand me a physical menu. If I didn't need a smartphone for work I'd get a "dumb" phone so fast. I want things to have buttons. I want to use a mouse. I want replaceable batteries. I want the right to repair. I grew up online and I won't forget how it was!

[seithr]

you probably *have* already but in case if you haven't - have you checked out the tactics ogre artbook on archive.org? there's a particular delicious slickness to the armor that made me think of you. -krad :3

i have NOT seen actually and if I'm being honest—beyond FFXIV and an unfinished playthrough of XV i am not actually a big final fantasy player haha. Its very unfamiliar/newish to me despite all the fantasy-swords-and-magic love and XIV sub.... lol

I've been meaning to check out Tactics Ogre since my brother is a fan of its artstyle and tells me I ought to take a look too!! Maybe I should ..oouh

[godzexperiment]

"Speaking of that question, what's that bizarre smell that is burning my nostrils. The answer is green apple scented hair bleach." Mild scrunch up at his nose as said it. "I am so very sorry you have come within it's vicinity but at least it's kind of a fun horror show on the senses."