Merveilleux! I’ve sent you a message

That’s great, thank you :) Yes, it is “third places” in English. Do you still have access to the communications they sent out as well as your slideshow? I have graphic design skills and I can read French well enough to reformulate them. Merci!

Would you be willing to share advice on how to make this happen and any promotional stuff (flyers etc)? I’ve been wanting to do this in my local area but am not sure how to publicise it.

I agree. I transitioned to GIMP on my own hardware a couple of years ago but still have to use Photoshop once a week for work.

Panning and zooming - a massive part of graphics UX - is miles better in GIMP for example and makes PS look primitive by comparison.

I highly recommend you watch one of the free video courses, from the beginning, on youtube.

GIMP is a really sophisticated piece of software designed for maximum technical control and flexibility. If you can dedicate a few hours to learning it you can do basically anything, for free, forever. If you only need to do basic stuff it might be worth looking at something else like Tux Paint for example, which is faster to pick up. It also has sound effects and is great fun.

EFF has signed on to F-Droid’s open letter. If you care about taking back control of tech, you should too.

I can’t find a link anywhere in the article. Have I gone blind?

Immich sounds great.

Does it have E2EE? I rent a VPS and would prefer personal files that I have on it to be protected.

I’ve just looked up Wiktionary in Kiwix and it’s available to download for offline use too. Just under 8GB.

dict.cc looks cool - thanks for the recommendation 👍

I just tried it out and it looks great. Do you have a subscription with them?

They should check out YUNOhost.

I had that in the beginning too. Once you’re used to the basics you’ll find that most of what you’ve learnt does transfer though.

I think part of the problem, at least for me coming from 20 years on photoshop, was searching for “how do I do this advanced technique in GIMP” before learning the basic layout/structure/tools etc.

YMMV but I highly recommend watching an hour or two of an introductory GIMP course. It’s what made it click for me.

Great resource - very accessible 👍

So safety in numbers and resources I guess. When it comes to community plugins/extensions e.g Firefox, Ardour, GIMP etc, do you have an impression of whether developers of the main program include anything in their code to prevent abuse?

YUNOhost FTW!

I would never have gotten into self-hosting without it.

Yes please! Would you mind also sending me a message when you do, in case I don’t see the post? Thanks :)

Is this for yourself?

A few months ago I thought about doing some workshops or presentations in my local area and asked a similar question about whether anyone had already put together something cohesive and as simple as possible but I couldn’t find anything that quite fit the bill.

Maybe there is something already out there but if anyone wants to collaborate on making something let me know.

Great review - thanks for writing it.

I love e-ink screens and physical keyboards, so this looks ace. Almost like a cyberdeck but with all the advantages of access to android apps.

I wonder how easy it would be to ‘de-google’.