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🚨NEW REPORT: Health insurers raked in $371 BILLION in profits since passage of the ACA, while raising family premiums to $26K a year.

More than 40% of the profit went to UnitedHealth, whose profits rose 400% as the company denies nearly 1 in 3 claims. buff.ly/3ZtqD4d


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« #PeerTube empowers people to create their video platforms, and be the Google of their own YouTube. PeerTube is not another video platform. PeerTube is a network of independent, self-managed and interconnectable platforms. » @Pouhiou

Full interview on @APC 👌
apc.org/en/news/peertube-netwo…

#Fediverse #SelfHosting #Video #Streaming

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Talking about #PeerTube, there's now a #mobile app on #Android and #IOS … Well done @Framasoft !! 🤩 Soon on F-Droid and you can download the apk on the article below 🤓

framablog.org/2024/12/10/peert…

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90-Year-Old Artist Proves It’s Never Too Late to Pursue Your Passion (8 Stunning Photos): streetartutopia.com/2024/12/04…

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An Icelander asked if I had Twitter. I said I have Mastodon. Their response was, “Mastodon? What the hell?” So… it sounds like we need to do more Iceland-promos on here. So here are some pretty Iceland shots I took recently

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👀
Mastodon starter packs...

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…

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I'm opening commissions! 🌿

➽ Information and contact: camilabrun.carrd.co

Hit me up for fabulous portraits. I'm also taking commercial work, so if you know someone with a book or game in need of an artist... 😏

#Art #CommissionsOpen #MastoArt #Portrait #TTRPG #FediArt #commission #FediHire

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@LPS Moving and extending the partition went fine. It won't solve the recording lag but hopefully it'll stop freezing 10 times a day. 😆

I do however have an inconsequential timelapse to show tomorrow.

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Julien goes into details on the conception and functional design of Project Gold's shattered modeling and animations. The first article of a series.
#b3d #BlenderStudio #ProjectGold #shards #modeling

studio.blender.org/blog/design…

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Say hello to freedom with #Linux! As #Windows 10 nears its end, explore our step-by-step guide to transitioning to #Linux with #openSUSE. 🌱 Extend hardware life, enjoy flexibility & boost security—all at no extra cost! 💻 #UpgradeToFreedom news.opensuse.org/2024/11/26/t…

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@openSUSE Linux this is a question for the entire #linux community, has anyone figured out how to get #adobe functioning yet, it's literally the only software I cannot replace...for my livelihood:(

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look for the alternate softwares.

What adobe software you need an alternate?

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@Shrini @openSUSE Linux thx for asking, i know there are many capable replacements....the difficulty is with working on teams exchanging files etc:(
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which adobe tool you are working with your team ?
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@lps no and there is no great replacements for Photoshop possibly krita since you can add the machine learning stuff, but it will never be the equivalent you want it to be unless you put in the work. 

You’re better paying for that $13 a month service that gives you photo editing, canva or something. 
Video paid daVinci resolve is the best but at the same time it’s a nightmare to install so I recommend installing it via nix pkg manager 

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@lps at the end of the day any modern adobe junk will never work on Linux
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@Yuki Linux @openSUSE Linux is there a technical reason that it can't work that someone can explain to me? I'm hoping at one point there could be an interpreter to make it work like what Value has done for gaming. Sadly when working in an environment where files are being shared on larger projects, I have no choice:(
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@lps Apparently it's doable, with some workarounds and the occasional missing feature

appdb.winehq.org/objectManager…

Can't vouch for it though, I haven't used anything Adobe since CS5.

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@lps If CC allows for multiple installs, you can test in a virtual machine…

I used PS (well, camera raw really) in Wine; was a bit of a hassle to set up but worked reasonably well. Then again, Wine has improved enormously over the last few years but it'll always be an uphill battle to keep up with modern software, so YMMV.

An alternative would be to keep the old win10 license for a virtual machine that you use exclusively for Adobe®™ stuff.

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There used to be these few strange CDs, free to download and then burn yourself.
With software that bore the name OpenSUSE 9.0. Crazy cool.
And the foundation stone for W2K being my last Windows and me not even installing MS products in a VM.
So this Windows 10 is an update of W2K and has a built-in split-view for the file-manager?


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We're looking for our second firmware/software engineer in Taiwan at @frameworkcomputer!
It will be my first local team mate 🥹

If you are or know someone who wants to help us build and maintain awesome laptops, get in touch~!

jobs.lever.co/framework/22d027…

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While I love the recent Bluesky rally, I also want to remind everyone that Mastodon is the only major social media that is properly decentralized, billionaire-proof and VC-free for now. I get that most people couldn't care less about protocols, but if you do, I recommend maintaining a presence here :)
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@singe Totally. And even if some future VC were to offer Eugen a truckload of $$ (I think he's mentioned being approached by certain money-having parties and turning them down), but even if he were to take it, the larger Fediverse would live on through the variety of forks and other AP-compatible platforms out there. This is the place to be for sure 😄👍
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Mastodon shouldn't be resting on its laurels though. Needs many improvements urgently:

- multiple domains per instance
- support for all #ActivityPub object types, event if minimal
- support math notation
- simpler tech stack for smaller instances (solid_queue etc)
- Better support for alternative user interfaces (eg: Whalebird which emulates Slack/Discord and Elk that emulates Twitter)

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I am not complaining as a Mastodon USER but as a fediverse DEVELOPER. Mastodon is holding the ecosystem back.

@Uraael

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And one step back, Akkoma doesn't want to implement multiple domains per instance. Worse, a single dev closed the issue without any discussions of pros and cons, indicating that it's mostly a single-person project. 🫤

akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/i…


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@ubuntu recently gave me the opportunity to present at #UbuntuSummit. If you want kick the creative software subscription habit 🗑️ and learn how @freehive is able using 100% #FOSS 🚀, the presentation is live! youtube.com/watch?v=OXocCVpVwU…

You'll get to see how @Blender @inkscape @GIMP and more are part of what I call the #CreativeFreedomSuite. Spread the word and go create something amazing!

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This was a great talk, thank you! Before studying graphic design I used Inkscape a lot, and of course in class we used Adobe but I switched to Affinity after graduating. Since installing a Linux partition I've been trying to return to Inkscape and I'm having a hard time getting used to the clunky interface so everything is a lot slower - do you have any tips? You mentioned an Inkscape book in the video that your kids are using - can you share the title?
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@scopefilter Oh, thanks! My main advice is to persist, because it will take time to reprogram your brain. You'll get there though. @CRogers presentation hasn't been published yet, but it is eye opening. His book is called "Design Made Easy with Inkscape" amazon.com/Design-Made-Easy-In…

Reach out if you hit a roadblock. Thanks again for the kind words!