Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 12/27/24 11:23 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 27/12/2024 15:42, TJ wrote:

I'm not a professional logger. I'm just an old farmer who over the years has used both, and if well maintained the saw is faster and more accurate for putting the tree where you want it instead of on your pickup truck.
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I've also bucked the tree into pieces with a chainsaw and with a crosscut hand saw, both one-man and two-man, and the chainsaw is easier, faster, and better.
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I've also split many a log into firewood with a hammer and wedges, as well as with a gasoline-powered hydraulic log splitter, and the log splitter will split tangled logs into usable pieces with ease that a hammer and wedges won't touch no matter how long you beat on them.
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Perhaps you believe that the exercise from using hand tools is better for health. Well, anybody who thinks you don't get a workout when using power tools to put up a winter's supply of firewood clearly has never actually done the task.

 +1 on all counts.
If God had given us chainsaws we would never have invented the axe.

Unfortunately, such objective discussions are beyond old "Farley" here; the appropriate analogy more akin to that he believes that one must only use one's teeth, because that's how a beaver does it.
He's in YA cycle of building a new PC, which instead of taking hours to get up & running has already consumed a few weeks...
-hh