Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Mon, 10 Feb 2025 22:45:28 +0100, D wrote:
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Are you gearing up for a project or just for fun?

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Just for fun. The project part is TBD.  My problem is there are many
things I *could* do, and not too much that I *want* done. For example I
would have no problem building the automated house from hell mostly from
stuff i have lying around and then I ask myself why?

Being an apartment dweller, this has always been my biggest problem. It is faster for me to flip the light switch, than to build a system with good voice recognition, that works reliably, and probably will have a lag from command to effect.
So I end up in.... why?
If I would like in a house, I might be able to come up with some artificial use cases such as optimizing the heat, or turning off the lights downstairs from upstairs, but even those cases seem to be, fairly artificial and hardly life changing.
One of the more boring tasks that I would like to be automated is trip planning. Comparing plane ticket prices, routes, times, finding a good hotel, booking that, finding a rental car, comparing all the prices, suggesting sights to see for the wife. It seems to me that this should be entirely possible to automate.
It would save me probably 10-20 hours a year of boring, repetitive work. I would gladly pay for such a service.
Today, what I sometimes do, is to pay human beings for this service. But it seems as if a computer should be able to do it as well, for less.
Another project that's on my to do list is to get drone delivery of food to my country house from the local super market. That would be really nice! I suspect the biggest problem would be to get the authorities to approve it.
The rest is just money and buying things.