Krita 6 (and 5.3) released! Two top-tier #art #apps for the price of one!

Look forward to Wayland color management (for Krita 6); an overhauled text tool with direct on-canvas editing, wrapped text and text-on-path capacity; a new #comic panel assistant; and so much more 🖌️.

https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.0-released/

@Krita

#design #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #painting #Mastoart

Are your LED's RGB?

Yep, they are! They can be all sorts of colors, though in general they stick to minty-green 00FFAC. They do change with my emotions, they get red when I'm angry or pissed off, pink if I'm swooning, and even more that I don't really pay close attention to.

https://asking.synth.download/ask/ak7uxm1aqeku01wu #AskSenil

If you had never heard of Synths, would you have gone Protogen?

Honestly, no. I kinda made the transition from robot-fucker to furry relatively quickly, me falling in love with synths roughly aligns with that stretch between robot-fucker and scalie, so if I didn't become a synth I'd probably be some form of lizard or snake. Not sure what kind it would've been, but I do have a scalie-sona in mind that'd be an Argentine black and white tegu, they're just... such friends.

https://asking.synth.download/ask/ak7uql6w68tg01h4 #AskSenil

love it when a problem space is small enough that you can just do an exhaustive solution.

tired of thinking? ran out of smart ideas to make things go faster? just compute EVERY POSSIBILITY. all of them, once. then you're done. easy.

Quirk explains how they ended up where they have in Xerian 2.
#furry #comics #furryart #ProjectFuture

Previous pages are here: http://projectfuturecomic.com/xerian2.php?strip=04-05

Do you run on batteries? And if so, what kind?

Batteries yes, and this got me to think of what exact chemistry (or at least, the general chemistry). Due to when he was first manufactured and how poorly his power circuitry integrated with his body, Senil originally ran on nickel-cadmium batteries when he was young. Despite his messed up power system, he was eventually able - albeit at great lengths and with many months in recovery - to update his battery tissue chemistry to lithium-ion with nickel-manganese-cobalt instead. Given that Senil lives in a interstellar post-scarcity society (though still at the far reaches of everything, with much less space traffic than other systems) battery tech is all over the place compared to us. In general he pushes for folks to at least use the extremely tried-and-true lithium-iron-phosphate chemistry due to how stable it is and has been for millenia, and not rely on more "unstable" and "ancient" chemistries like lithium-ion NMC or even Ni-Cad and Ni-MH. LiFePo is considered the "boring" chemistry that most everything uses, with sodium-ion being right next to it when stability is king over all else. Solid-state batteries have been in use for centuries, though only more recent synths and robotics have had them installed - due to their, well, "solid" nature they went under significantly more testing before being deployed for battery tissues. Silicon-Carbon anode batteries are still pretty common for devices that need high energy density, like phones and laptops, so they're very common in those devices to that day for Senil.

https://asking.synth.download/ask/ak4djbrp6y0f0aw3

I hate how often I see this kind of update out of context:

DigiScambo 1.8.3.5 release!
Finally, after two years of work, we've finally updated DigiScrambo to use Sneeborf 2.0!
You can download DigiScrambo 1.8.3.5 at http://digiscrambo.egg/releases

Does Senil generate much trash as a Synth? And if you have the time to explain, I'd love to hear how it's handled in your lore if any! Would be willing to read a ton.

Ooh, this is an interesting one! In terms of Senil specifically, he doesn't generate too much trash outside of the usual amount for "existing day-to-day" - small bits of plastic and paper waste due to packaging, cardboards, metal shavings, small faulty electronics components, things like that. Since he's battery-powered most of the time, he only needs the occasional metals to give his nanites material to repair and/or grow with (unless his battery tissue itself inflates...), so his overall trash output is pretty minimal. He does have a bio-burner to convert as much energy as possible from biomass into energy for whenever he's trekking somewhere far from power, especially if it's somewhere without consistent access to solar power, but it takes energy to produce energy from it. Even though he could eat spare bits of plastic, paper, cardboard, leaves, etc. to help keep him powered on, small amounts like that usually take more energy to convert than they actually produce, so he practices "leave no trace" whenever possible.  He has tried to get more efficient bio-burners that use different processes to convert biomass into energy, but they end up getting rejected by his neurology often times since his power circuitry ended up integrating very poorly when he was young and developing; he just has to take whatever works with him and hope it integrates cleanly enough. If anything, "broken modules" ends up being his most consistent trash output, but usually they can be repaired or repurposed into something else that works just fine. If it can't be... well, he'll either eat it or sell it for scrap.

https://asking.synth.download/ask/ak42w2esj1f809mo