• pH3ra@lemmy.ml
    1167·
    10 months ago

    Mandatory “use GIMP: is free and open source” comment

      • pH3ra@lemmy.ml
        151·
        10 months ago

        I justify the use of Adobe for professional use cases, like “I have to print a label with a specific set of colors and GIMP has bad CYMK support”.
        If you have to put a signature where there isn’t one or stuff like that, GIMP is more than good for the job and in the meanwhile you’re helping a community project to grow.

        • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
          10·
          10 months ago

          I’ll always choose the FOSS option first, but if you want something that does most of what the Adobe products do, has decent CMYK support, and doesn’t charge a subscription, the Affinity software suite (Affinity Photo, Designer and Publisher) is pretty good value.

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
      12·
      10 months ago

      The only problem with GIMP is that is comes with every sensible keyboard shortcut mapped to some random function you use once in a lifetime.

  • aesthelete@lemmy.world
    1108·
    10 months ago

    They wanted to DNA test my dog and keep his biometric data on file as part of the terms of the last lease I was looking at.

    I uhh, didn’t fucking sign. The neofeudalist movement is for real.

    • Zavasay@lemmy.fmhy.net
      6915·
      10 months ago

      This so they can fine you when you leave your dog’s shit on the ground for other people to step in. I’m here for it. I lived in a place that did not enforce picking up after your animals and it was absolutely disgusting.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        457·
        10 months ago

        They don’t do that at all anyway, but hey at least the professional landlord class gets to inflict upon you one more indignity for some imagined benefit.

        The park adjacent to those buildings has so much dog turd in it you’d think they were purposely producing low quality fertilizer over there.

          • aesthelete@lemmy.world
            1512·
            10 months ago

            For the record I’m not actually pro “leave your dog shit everywhere” I just question both the imposition of the indignity of subjecting your tenants to pet DNA screening, and the effectiveness of it as a mechanism for preventing that.

            I actually am pro throw unbagged dog shit in a bag-containing garbage can though, and don’t really understand why anyone would care about that.

            I tend to see more of the leaving it on the ground, not even the throwing it in a can.

            Edit: Alright, you guys are right, you need at least 2 layers of bags for dog shit. But then I guess triples might be safer, or even quads. Fuck it, every piece of dog shit must be wrapped in at least twenty layers of plastic before it hits the landfill! We need to preserve the remains of this dog shit forever!! It’ll be our mummies!!! Inject it with formaldehyde!!!

          • Donebrach@lemmy.world
            76·
            10 months ago

            Guess your tenants don’t have a working dishwasher and a window that’s been broken since before they moved in that is totally gonna be fixed before they move in?

        • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
          3·
          10 months ago

          https://www.pooprints.com/

          Hate to break it to you dude

          "We are the DNA dog waste management company offering a solution to pet pollution in 7,000+ communities across the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom. It isn’t just a problem in your community—it’s everywhere. "

          And here I thought it was pretty common to have your children and pets DNA tested by your apartment manager. Hasn’t this always been the case?

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      303·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, they do that these days to identify who lets their dogs poop around the property and don’t pick it up.

      • aesthelete@lemmy.world
        409·
        10 months ago

        Nobody’s DNA testing dog stool. They can’t be bothered to even do routine move out cleanings in those apartments. The whole thing is a giant farcical pretendy power game played out by managers far away designing a system for the benefit of their rentier owners to simultaneously rob renters of their last scraps of dignity and every remaining dime they have in the form of bullshit fees.

          • aesthelete@lemmy.world
            226·
            10 months ago

            I’m aware that the apartment people aren’t running the DNA database themselves. They have some weirdo company that does it. I’m also aware that that weirdo company (or companies) is capable of putting together a website.

            I’m saying I live in the same neighborhood (I bought a place). Nobody is going through that park and picking up the dozens of available dog stool and sending it off to some lab to be tested. They just aren’t. The whole fucking thing is a wet dream had by some awful corporate bureaucrat that only succeeds in making renters lives a little more miserable and pads the pockets of some other random, doggy DNA database building weirdo somewhere else.

            • aesthelete@lemmy.world
              111·
              10 months ago

              I’m going to briefly go on a related rant here that you can feel free to ignore.

              rant

              People in America have this perspective that if somehow you devise a theoretical solution to a problem (especially if it’s fancy and requires “tech” and “DNA” and labcoats) that you will magically have solved the problem. This isn’t actually the case, and it’s shown to not be the case over and over and over again in this country and everyone still seems purposely ignorant to that simple concept.

              Things have unintended effects. Systems can have effectiveness issues. System costs (of all types, not just monetary) on all parties involved in the administration of those systems are often left unconsidered because it’s not part of the problem solver’s business model. Convoluted systems will not be fully understood by the agents who are supposed to implement them. Modern, technical solutions to problems are not magically better or more effective than the alternatives that are very often never even considered, simply because it wouldn’t give you a reason to strap on a lab coat, or start up a new SaSS company.

                • aesthelete@lemmy.world
                  7·
                  10 months ago

                  I dunno maybe it isn’t entirely but it’s a very pervasive attitude here.

                  Look at the COVID death numbers in the US versus some places that had the common sense to just use masks.

            • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
              21·
              10 months ago

              Well I don’t know what to tell you. We had a guy two months ago who was arrested because his dog was pooping on the premises and he did not clean it up.

              This is a half a billion dollar a year industry.

              • aesthelete@lemmy.world
                11·
                10 months ago

                Arrested? Lol

                In my area you can’t even get anyone to care at all.

                Maybe if someone’s dog pooped directly in the property manager’s mouth… Otherwise, forget it.

              • aesthelete@lemmy.world
                71·
                10 months ago

                You think they have a lab in the apartment complex and they’re doing the testing themselves? 😆

              • Rambi@lemm.ee
                4·
                10 months ago

                You’re saying the business that the other commenter provided a link to is a “conspiracy theory”?

          • aesthelete@lemmy.world
            126·
            10 months ago

            You caught me, I’m complaining about DNA testing of dogs because it’s actually me sneaking out at night and pooping (not even the dog, but me). I shit out there just for you, bud.

            • Promethiel@lemmy.world
              61·
              10 months ago

              You don’t understand, PooPrints has got your number. They ship dog poop around SIX countries, didn’t you read the site!?

              It’s frustrating out there, but keep up the critical thinking fight. The ones you reach usually won’t be ones replying.

      • s_s@lemmy.one
        121·
        10 months ago

        Or…They threaten to do this and just keep your $600

        It’s really the threat that motivates people, and it’s the free $600 non-refundable deposit that motivates the landlords.

    • Pokethat@lemm.ee
      372·
      10 months ago

      Do what you want cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate! 🎶🎵🎶

      • EzekielJK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        10 months ago

        I remember the first time I ever saw that video was when I tried playing Enter the Gungeon. I didn’t even pirate it. I just screwed up when I was installing some mods lol

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      7·
      10 months ago

      Yup. Adobe may not be the ones causing the housing crisis, but all this nickel and diming from other sources is part of the problem too.

      Hey Adobe, if you want people to stop pirating your shit go back to a pay-once model or lower your subscription costs. Then maybe use some of that money you’ve got to help us out over here so we can afford to pay you.

    • qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
      91·
      10 months ago

      I “forged” documents with gimp once — needed to print out and sign something for a wire transfer when I was abroad. I pasted in my signature and sent it back, but they said it needed to be print out, scanned, and sent back. So I opened it in gimp, added noise and rotated it by a degree or so to look like it was scanned — and they accepted it, no questions asked. So…I forged my own documents.

      Banking in the US is sometimes a bit humorous. (Meanwhile, in the country I was staying, at the end of the night someone picked up the tab, wrote down their bank account number, and said “transfer me $XYZ thanks” — was pretty great.)

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
    484·
    10 months ago

    No one going to bring up the fact that adobe is an anagram of abode?

    They got their abode with adobe! This is no coincidence! I’m inclined to say this goes all the way to the top!

  • CodingSquirrel@kbin.social
    391·
    10 months ago

    You don’t even need photoshop. Just use the inspect function in your browser and edit the values directly in the HTML. Free and much easier to not fuck up the formatting.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    294·
    10 months ago

    I mean, that’s fraud, but you gotta do what you gotta do, housing is ridiculous now. How is there no legislation or anything being done to fix this? And how convenient is it that all of this is happening after we had a President who makes money off of real estate?

    • TwoGems@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      I’d do it too. Rent requirements are unrealistic as is general housing. There has to be more homeless people than ever now.

    • solstice@lemmy.world
      3·
      10 months ago

      The one and only “accomplishment” I can think of in Trump’s four year term is passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act at the end of 2017. Literally the first (and only) thing the guy does in office is pass massive tax legislation giving a gigantic sloppy blowjob to the real estate industry. There’s so mcuh in there for RE, it’s so transparent. Didn’t build a wall, didn’t persecute gay/trans via legislation or whatever, didn’t drain the swamp, but massive tax legislation.

      • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        The “culture war” stuff is just their bread & butter for the base that will get them motivated to vote, but their real priority will always be making more money for the investor/owner/donor class. I’m sure this made Trump a heap of money as well, but apparently he needed that sweet sweet classified documents payout on top of that.

  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    10 months ago

    It might work for a small time landlord, but larger real estate agencies have other ways to check your income.

    This is from my work:

    • JAC@reddthat.com
      5·
      10 months ago

      Bruh, I had one property, and I still did more thorough work than this. The credit unions offer it as a service. It’s like 0 work to do. These people, lol.

    • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
      31·
      10 months ago

      My company uses that too. You need to earn five times the salary that we offer for a new hire in order to apply for a job here.

  • jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    231·
    10 months ago

    Step 1: File articles of incorporation for an LLC. Step 2: Open bank account for your new business. Step 3: Write checks to yourself from said business. Step 4: Tell future landlord that you’re “self employed.” Step 5: File dissolution of LLC -or- make sure to pay any annual franchise taxes, depending on your state, if you decide to keep it active.

      • seathru@lemm.ee
        1·
        10 months ago

        That step is unnecessary. You can call your LLC whatever you want. So all the landlord has to know is that you work for “Totally Not A Front LLC”. If they don’t do their due diligence verifying that it’s more than a one person operation, that’s on them.

      • DigitalFrank@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        10 months ago

        We do, but our verification process include researching the LLC and requiring proof of at least 2 years of business income ( 3 years preferred).