If your IP (and possible your browser) looks “suspicious” or has been used by other users before, you need to add additional information for registration on gitlab.com, which includes your mobile phone number and possibly credit card information. Since it is not possible to contribute or even report issues on open source projects without doing so, I do not think any open source project should use this service until they change that.
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About 10 years ago I decided I was going to pick up blender and learn it. No big deal, I used to be really good in radiant so I should be able to catch up. this shouldn’t be that strange. I’ll just pick up a YouTube video how to get started. Just click here click there go to this menu and select that.
Huh, the menu’s not even there. I go start digging around oh they moved at this point revision. Okay fine. Now everything I look up needs to have that exact point revision. It started out fine I was able to find tutorials starting in the exact version that I needed, but then I started needing more specific tutorials working with non-manifold objects crap like that. Well lo and behold somebody hasn’t covered every point revision in blender for every problem I encountered. Trying to find a video on how to do a certain action or even what the action is called now is potluck.
I couldn’t even buy a book or download a tutorial series from a previous version because even point releases at that time were night and day apart.
On The other hand I won’t try to tell you that gimp isn’t a hot mess but it’s got maybe a hundred options 25 of which are the ones I really need to use on a regular basis, and although their locations change and the shapes of the icons the names of them in the menus they’re in don’t move around that much. Blender on the other hand, there’s just s*** all over the place.
I appreciate that it might have gotten better at this point I don’t have the time anymore.