Got stuck in hospital for a few weeks recently and used the opportunity to finally learn Affinity.
I’m now really liking it. Takes a few tries to get into it though.
I particularly like it on the iPad with the Apple pencil. A bit less so on my windows laptop.
Thanks a lot to the awesome user who messaged me a DrunkenSlug invite.
Have signed up and look forward to trying it out :)
Wow, do both sound great.
I also mostly just search manually, but am looking at setting up something more automated soon.
I used to use all of this stuff many years ago, but less so in recent years.
But the fragmentation and rising costs of paid services and the way every single thing is becoming a subscription is annoying the hell out of me. It’s like they are trying to do their best to push me back to this stuff!
Anyway, I see both of the above services are invite only, if anyone can spare one I’d be really grateful!
I got sick of subscriptions, so I got Affinity Photo 2 for iPad as it was a reasonably priced one time purchase.
I cannot recommend it highly enough. I made a post about it here:
Most things I do on it can be done as well or better elsewhere.
However, I really like Photo editing on my iPad Pro using the Apple pencil.
It’s now my preferred platform for that.
I have been with idrive since 2009. At the time they were the only ones that allowed backups of network attached storage on their cheaper personal plans. Everyone else saw that as an “enterprise” feature which required a business plan. Which was bullsh*t, because lots of home NAS devices were being sold.
Anyway, I haven’t done a recent comparison of services, but I remain happy with idrive.
Thesedays I no longer backup on a computer with a mapped drive, but directly from my NAS which runs the idrive software.
I had a catastrophic dual drive failure a few years ago, one failed and another failed during the raid rebuild! I was able to restore about 1tb of data and didn’t lose anything important.
They also offer backup and restore by shipping a drive to you if you want to avoid the huge initial backup or a total restore, but I haven’t used that feature.
They do also have a mobile app, but last time I tried it, it wasn’t great.
I’m relying on some of you folks to do a “trial” for me and let me know. Your efforts are appreciated 😛
Thanks, that’s great 🙂
To never make any resolutions ever again.
So far it’s going well 👍🏻
How do you filter for English?
I sometimes get a bunch of Dutch and German posts. They seem to come in waves. My high school German from years ago is not up to the task so I’d rather filter them out!
Anna’s Archive?
I only found out about it on here recently and I’ve been able to find a couple of quite obscure titles on there.
Including one that had never been released as an ebook Seems someone has scanned it.
Yes because:
Connect for Lemmy. Was using Jerboa until the update made it a bit unstable with lemmy.world (until they update their end, hopefully soon).
Both pretty decent, but as a SyncForReddit refugee, I’m eagerly waiting for SyncForLemmy :)
Lol, watched a lot of Simpsons but had never seen that!
That Dialup sound.
Newsgroups.
The kick I got out of posting up my own crappy page with lots of annoying images and gifs (Geocities ftw!)
I’m screwed.
It’s 8pm on a Sunday and I’m stuck in hospital temporarily unable to walk, so I can’t really buy anything in the next hr :(
Guess I may as well share it with the nurses. If I can’t give it away, then maybe buy a hug from each one, or a massage, or … no let’s not go there!
Anyway, better to share it than let it lapse :)
This.
I use Adguard, if a site blocks me for it, then it goes on a black list of “never visit” sites.
In a few cases, if I use and like/support a specific site a lot and that site is ad supported with no other ad-free option, then I white list it.
But to read the odd crappy article? No I’m not disabling my ad blocker.