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Adobe plans to make Photoshop on the web free to everyone – Does it mean it will finally run on Linux too?

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The company is now testing the free version in Canada, where users are able to access Photoshop on the web through a free Adobe account. Adobe describes the service as “freemium” and eventually plans to gate off some features that will be exclusive to paying subscribers. Enough tools will be freely available to perform what Adobe considers to be Photoshop’s core functions.

The question of course will be how useful the core features will be. We do have open source cross-platform GIMP, which is really powerful (and very likely more so than Photoshop’s web product), but GIMP is still a difficult UI can casual users (once you use it very often I imagine you’d know exactly what is where).

So yes, Photoshop follows Microsoft Office then in exposing young children to getting used to a product they’ll probably have to pay for later on if they want to progress a bit further with it. I’d really prefer that schools teach the principles of the various products on completely free and open source software, and apart from the freedoms of use, so that they are familiar with there being alternatives, and so that schools themselves don’t get locked into a specific proprietary product.

See https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/14/23162580/photoshop-web-free-freemium-version-adobe

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Running #Ubuntu 20.04 on an HP desktop with an Intel graphics card, I experience something fuzzy on certain sites.
Attached image is from a spreadsheet in the Zoho office suite. As you see, the active cell, in edit mode, is very crisp and clear.
The surrounding cells are amazingly fuzzy.

The same sheet on my Acer Aspire laptop, same Ubuntu, with Nvidia graphics, is clear and crisp all over.
Anyone have an idea what is happening here, and how to fix this? I already played with refresh rates, but that doesn't make any difference.

Spreadsheets in Google Sheets don't have this odd behaviour on either machine.

#linux #intel #graphics

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Designers create illustrations to show solidarity with Ukraine

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Pentagram Ukraine war protest design

Studios and designers including Olafur Eliasson and Pentagram are sharing illustrations to show support for Ukraine following the invasion by Russia. We've rounded up 10 of the most striking.

Designers around the world have taken to social media to show their support and to publicly condemn Russia's invasion of the country, which began on 24 February.

As well as creating illustrations, many are using their platforms to raise awareness and to provide information on how to help refugees or donate to various international and grassroots charities.

[ Red swing set in front of a Kyiv building damaged during the Russian invasion of Ukraine

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Designers react to the Ukraine invasion in today's Dezeen Agenda newsletter

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In response to the war, creatives from Lithuania launched Creatives for Ukraine, an open platform where designers, illustrators, and photographers all over the world can submit their work for free use.

"We are using our voice and written word while engaging our contacts to support peace," said Kristina Skindelytė-Galdkovienė, co-founder of Blue Oceans PR, one of three Lithuanian agencies that started the platform.

"We want the whole world to see and share art and images that convey frustration, hurt, helplessness and anger that creatives capture so adequately," she said.

Below are 10 artworks designed to show solidarity with Ukraine:

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Design studio Pentagram created an illustration containing the word Unity written using the colours of the Ukrainian flag – blue and yellow.

Alongside the post, the brand announced that it will donate funds to the United Nations' refugee agency United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in an effort to help people affected by the war.

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Olafur Eliasson

Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson, who is based in Berlin, shared details of organisations that are transporting donations to the border of Ukraine as well as groups that are arranging housing for refugees in the city.

The information was posted below an image created by Eliasson of a painting on a piece of wood in yellow, blue, black and white arranged in a formation that looks like a rising sun.

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Designer Adam Nathanial Furman created an illustration of the Derzhprom constructivist complex in Kharkiv, again using the colours blue and yellow.

Furman is selling the artwork, as well as mugs and T-shirts, with proceeds set to go to the Disaster Emergency Committee's Ukraine humanitarian appeal.

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Jaime Hayon

Among the first international designers to post an illustration in solidarity with Ukraine, Jaime Hayon created a drawing of two birds embracing in his signature playful.

The artist has since shared other illustrations condemning the war including an optical illusion of a man wearing a face mask that can also be interpreted as a white bird of freedom.

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Ronan Bouroullec

French studio Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec co-founder of Ronan Bouroullec covered a blank canvas in blue and yellow colours to show his solidarity with the country.

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Sascha Lobe

A print for People of Print with the words "Russian warship, go fuck yourself" – a quote from a Ukrainian soldier at the beginning of the invasion – was Pentagram graphic designer Sascha Lobe's creative way of raising money for Ukrainian refugees.

The design was screen printed on paper, with all proceeds of the print sale going to UNHCR.

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Pantone

To show solidarity with Ukraine, colour company Pantone created an image featuring the colours from the country's flag labelled Freedom Blue and Energizing Yellow. It also posted a picture of a yellow sunflower against a blue sky.

The brand added a link to a list of organisations accepting relief donations to its Instagram bio.

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Krista Kim

Instead of raising money in a traditional fashion, Toronto-based digital artist Krista Kim encouraged users to donate to the official Ukrainian Ethereum wallet, a digital piggy bank for crypto donations for the country.

Kim is selling non-fungible token No. 700 v.26 on the NFT marketplace platform Super Rare to generate funds for the wallet.

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Oliver Jeffers

Artist Oliver Jeffers provided examples of actions people can take, including switching to renewable energy instead of using oil-based energy which he believes plays a role in upholding Russian.

To accompany his message Jeffers created an illustration that asked the question: "Why are we back here?", referencing the history of past wars and conflicts.

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Karolis Strautniekas

Lithuania-based artist Karolis Strautniekas drew a portrait of Russian president Vladimir Putin, who he describes as "a blatant liar, manipulator and psychopath".

The image, which Strautniekas submitted to the Creatives for Ukraine platform, depicts Putin with a snake covering most of his face, alluding to the serpent's connotation with evil and death.

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Designers and artists create illustrations to show solidarity with Ukraine

Studios and designers including Olafur Eliasson and Pentagram are sharing illustrations to show support for Ukraine following the invasion by Russia.

danie10@squeet.me
Danie

Update your Android’s GPU drivers systemlessly using this tool, no root required

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Smartphone-oriented websites tend to focus only on the latest devices, but a large chunk of users choose not to upgrade their phones for one reason or another. Barring hardware failure, many of these devices may still have years of use ahead of them because, to their owners, they still work just fine. While custom ROMs can keep legacy smartphones alive for ages, it can be a nightmare for the modders to keep things like the camera and graphics drivers up to date without official manufacturer support.

Unlike the smartphone ecosystem, updating the graphics driver on your PC is something you can always think about. This is possible because of the modular architecture of PC hardware drivers, which allows power users to tinker with closed source driver packages, or even opt for open source drivers instead of OEM-provided binaries. In the case of Android, however, driver updates generally only come to your phone alongside larger OS updates.

Updatable GPU drivers can come in handy for fixing bugs, improving graphics performance, or adding new features from OpenGL or Vulkan APIs. Nowadays, smartphones are bigger and faster than ever, making them the perfect vehicle for gaming, hence porting the PC-esque driver design to them does make sense.

Thanks to XDA Senior Member bylaws, we now have a genius solution named Adreno Tools that allows on-the-fly GPU driver modifications or replacements on Android — that too without root! Fellow Skyline developer Mark “Pixelylon” pitched the idea of runtime drive replacement to bylaws, which eventually materialized into Adreno Tools. Being a rootless library, Adreno Tools can help any regular app to load custom GPU drivers, deal with BCn textures, and redirect file operations for further complex modifications. It does so by hooking into system libraries and seamlessly swapping in the new driver.

See https://www.xda-developers.com/adreno-tools-update-android-graphics-drivers/

#technology #android #gaming #adrenotools #graphics
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