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GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program[^] free, impresive AND local in your PC / not in the cloud 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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As far as I remember, Photopea doesn't store your documents in the cloud - everything is local. It is only using the Net to send the drawing code to your browser. I've heard it is a fairly comprehensive Photoshop replacement, although I doubt it does color management and such.
Personally, Krita, Blender, an old paid version of Xara Xtreme, and an old paid copy of Photoshop work for me. The more I work with Blender, the more impressed I am by it. 2D, 3D, animation... My hat is off to Ton Roosendaal and everyone who worked on it!
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SpaceX is taming some toilet troubles in its capsules before it launches four more astronauts. Try to go less boldly next time
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Try to go less boldly next time
Ewwww!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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In January 2020 I wrote the post Not planning now to migrate your .NET 4.8 legacy, is certainly a mistake. Hopefully we followed our own advice and have been migrated most of our non-UI code. "No pain. No gain."
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Apple's portable MP3 player first launched on October 23, 2001. To celebrate the iPod's birthday, Playdate maker Panic posted what it says are images of "an original early iPod prototype." 1000 songs in your (very large) pocket
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The term "metaverse" seems to be everywhere. Facebook is hiring thousands of engineers in Europe to work on it, while video game companies are outlining their long-term visions for what some consider the next big thing online. Unfortunately, no one can be told what...I've just had a strange sense of deja vu. I must be in a simulation!
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«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Smart pointers are very versatile and can hold pointers not only to single instances but also to arrays. Is that only a theoretical use case? or maybe they might be handy in some cases? Not for those that think pointers are dumb
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For anyone who's interested, it's about std::unique_ptr<T[]>, which owns what you'd allocate with operator new[] before C++11. I assume there are equivalent versions of shared_ptr and weak_ptr. I've used the unique_ptr version a handful of times.
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Developers have for years been decrying a perceived neglect on the part of Microsoft toward its Universal Windows Platform, and they're in voice again after the company published new guidance about migrating UWP apps to the new Windows App SDK, which used to be called Project Reunion. That's OK, you weren't using it anyway
Yeah, sorry. Kind of a dupe, but better titled than the story last week about this deprecation
Edit: updated typo in title
modified 27-Oct-21 13:22pm.
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I'm glad I didn't put any effort into learning UWP. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It's definitely gotten to the point where I pause with any new MSFT tech to see if they'll stick with it.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, I had the same luck with Silverlight, by the time I got around to learning it, it had gone! UWP too.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft ways
Let me count the ways. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Everyone's an editor
TTFN - Kent
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Intel may soon reclaim supremacy in CPU speed benchmarks, where it has been overshadowed by Apple's Arm-based chips for the past year. It's *almost* like "newer chips are faster than older chips"?
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Collectively clocking in at nearly 60 trillion particles, a newly released set of cosmological simulations is by far the biggest ever produced. "Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
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To put that into perspective, 60 trillion is approximately 4.0x10^-13 percent of the number of electrons in your body, if I've done the math right (and there is no guarantee I have). How many electrons are in the average human body? - Quora
edit - since the amygdala is approximately 0.003% of your body weight, the 60 trillion particles work out to be about 0.000000013% of the amount of electrons present in your amydgala. Roughly.
modified 25-Oct-21 19:03pm.
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The Redmond giant announced the rollout on a support page last week, explaining that the Windows 11 PC Health Check app will be delivered automatically via Windows Update (KB5005463) on all devices running Windows 10 version 2004 or later. Coming soon: a big, red upgrade button!
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To meet a coming wave of hyper-automation, IT organizations need to do a better job of partnering with professionals outside of IT to automate business processes and data integration, according to research firm Gartner. If they're getting paid, wouldn't that mean they're also professional developers?
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Perhaps the tsunami of weird apps on the horizon, which will soon break, temporarily inundating the low-lying domains of naive users ... will ... once it recedes, result in more appreciation for "real" programmers and the complexity of application requirements for security, reliability, deployment on muiti-form factor devices, etc., that robust, useful, programs require ?
Or, maybe it's btowser uber alles ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Citizen purveyors of made-up bullshit already outnumber Gartner by several millions to 1. Or is that billions?
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I don't know about that - Gartner seems to have a load o' BS artists in their employ.
TTFN - Kent
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