Most people don’t. There is a theory (and I don’t know if it was ever verified officially) that Adobe stuff was made so easy to pirate and crack intentionally. That way students and people learning how to use their tools (primarily photoshop) would master it and therefore force any employer they later worked with to get and stay with Adobe and their expensive enterprise licences. The lower the barrier of entry the more people in the workforce could be competent with it.

I was happier not knowing this…

I think we need to be more consistent with it, time to drop the ‘p’ sound from helicopter as per its roots.

Can’t believe it doesn’t have a London Cheesecake. Well actually I can because not only is it not a cake but it doesn’t even have cheese in it…

Its a weird little thing mostly localised to London as the name would suggest. Basically a square of puff pastry with a jam filling, icing and coconut shavings on top.

Not ideal when you want an actual cheesecake but a really simple and delicious pastry.

I tried but failed, people are so reliant on it that I couldn’t interest people enough and gradually even some people who moved over, drifted back.

Happy that worked for you but doing so would have cut a huge social part of my life away, its more than just 1:1 messaging stuff.

They can but that instantly excludes me from casual day to day things like my family group chat or more spur of the moment messaging - plans here heavily favour data these days over texts - honestly the only texts i get these days are automated services. I just have no desire to be so isolated from friends and family

Without whatsapp I would essentially be losing contact with my family and a ton of friends and colleagues. And some businesses even use it. Do I want to, no. Have I got some people on signal, yes. But there simply isnt a way for me to cut it out of my life unfortunately.

I love all dutch swearing, as a microbiologist there is something particularly satisfying being able to tell somebody to ‘krijg de tyfus’ or to call somebody a ‘pleurislijer’

At least with kindle books bought from amazon you have to use their own software to transfer. They stopped the old app working which could download books to your computer so now they just have to check if the kindle it is connecting to is attached to your account and on a software version they support.

I love revanced so much…

My point was more that harmful chemicals in the sense of chromium salts etc. aren’t present in veg tan which, for the most part, is boiling it in a load of tree bark.

I do hobby-level leatherworking and I’m all here for real non-animal leathers but yeah, basically all of them, cactus, mango, pineapple leaf etc. all just get put on a PU backing…

I got excited for cork leather at one point but turns out that is also either PU backed or fabric backed (which is better but doesn’t really work as a direct replacement for leather, especially structurally).

There are a few I’m more excited for and I would love to get hold of but they still seem either experimental or used directly by the makers for their own finished products. Most are fungus based, so one is SCOBY leather, basically the big blob of microorganisms used to make kombucha can be grown in big flat sheets, dried and treated to make a leathery material but I’ve not seen many applications of it yet…

But mushroom/mycelial leather is the one I’m most hopeful for. Not only do some of them look like real leather but the random ‘grain’ of the mycelium has the potential to ape the natural fibrous grain of leather that gives it its strength. That is the one I’m really excited for.

And veg tan? I try not to use chrome tan in stuff I make for both environmental reasons and the fact its a pain to work with but we have been veg tanning for thousands of years.

Having agents.md is a silly criteria… One project I’m with is doing GSoC this year and another org recommended using agents.md to tell the AI that will inevitably be used that it needs to tell the person that AI copy paste will not be accepted and please don’t bother unless you can demonstrate understanding of what you are doing.

I still have my Corsa C! Only about 50k miles but its still going strong.

Pretty sure its my Neopets, I set it up in my dad’s office before we even got internet at home

My mother thought the lyrics to Roberta Flack’s version of Killing Me Softly With His Song was “Strumming my face with his fingers” (not strumming my pain).

MSN messenger
Independent forums (like Invisonfree)
Bebo
Facebook
Reddit
Discord
Matrix
Lemmy
Instagram (originally just for a friend to sell me stuff but I now have some more friends and communities on this)
Tiktok (only used for a friend to send me things she likes)

Its really not that bad. If you dont mess with the encryption stuff too much then even an idiot like me was able to drive it well enough.