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Unethical Life Pro Tips

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An Unethical Life Pro Tip (or ULPT) is a tip that improves your life in a meaningful way, perhaps at the expense of others and/or with questionable legality. Share your best tips you've picked up throughout your life, and learn from others!

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[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mandatory "use GIMP: is free and open source" comment

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just pirate Adobe and get the best of both worlds.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can you give an example? The defaults seem perfectly sensible to me.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The other problem is that if it's on your resume, I'm not hiring you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not going to be on my resume. Because I know GIMP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah it really sounds like i wouldn't want to work for you.

BRB, putting GIMP my resume.