Churbleyimyam

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Churbleyimyam,

Excellent resource. Thanks for sharing!

Churbleyimyam,

There is no way I was expecting to hear something like this ahead of an election…

Churbleyimyam,

Is it because their planes keep falling apart or because they keep murdering people?

Mono/stereo problem with videos files. How to fix?

I have some video files which have stereo audio tracks that were created from a mono source. I think the mono signal got sent to the right channel and not the left because when I created the files in OBS I forgot to select mono audio recording. When I play the videos all the sound is on right side only. Hope that makes sense…...

Churbleyimyam,

Just enjoy buddy.

Churbleyimyam,

GIMP 3.0 should be out this year. If you’re interested, you can already use some of the new features (like true non-destructive editing) by running the development version.

www.gimp.org/news/2024/…/gimp-2-99-18-released/

Churbleyimyam,

No worries :) It’s a big release and is gonna really bring GIMP up to date. I’m super excited about it!

Churbleyimyam,

I actually think that it wouldn’t take too many more people using GIMP for the name of the program to be considered the primary meaning of the word in English.

Churbleyimyam,

Maybe if electric motorcycles can become more popular the noise issue will lessen.

Churbleyimyam,

Man, I absolutely love driving within the speed limit and seeing a big queue of would-be speeders gradually building up behind me.

Churbleyimyam,

There is an anti-car community somewhere on Lemmy. Will look for the link.

Churbleyimyam,

A good kit IMO, in order of priority:

  • Cherrytree; nominally for making hierarchical lists but you can basically use it as a wiki for your entire life. You can theme it yourself too, if you think it looks too retro out of the box.
  • Syncthing, for keeping files synced between devices without having to use a server.
  • Qbittorrent, for getting files you need. Remember to install search plugins.
  • KeepassXC. Password manager (local, not on a server, use in combination with Syncthing).
  • Convertall, for unit conversions.
  • Calibre, for managing an ebook library, converting formats, removing DRM, transferring to ereader etc.
  • Rhythmbox, for music library, podcasts, internet radio.
  • Shotwell, for photo and video library. Easy to use, supports tags (metadata written to image files).
  • GIMP, for image manipulation. It’s extremely versatile, comprehensive and versatile. 3.0 is due out soon and will include non-destructive layer effects. Heavyweight piece of software, so expect a learning curve.
  • Ardour, for music production. Heavyweight, steep learning curve.
  • Flowblade for video production. Lightweight, easy to learn.
  • Libreoffice, desktop publishing.
  • Librewolf; privacy-focussed web browser.
  • Thunderbird; highly organisable email client.
  • Freetube, for watching youtube videos without all the ads and tracking. Local subscriptions and playlists, which you can export to use with Newpipe on Android. Also lets you download video and audio.

If you like the terminal also add:

  • ranger; file manager
  • newsboat; RSS feed reader
  • yt-dl; download videos from youtube and many other sites ;)
  • w3m; command line web browser. I like to use this in combination with newsboat.

Enjoy!

Churbleyimyam,

OK thanks, will check it out :)

Churbleyimyam,

Do people like Trump because he aligns with their politics or because in a simple way he expresses American identities of being irreverent, ‘straight talking’ and entrepreneurial? Just a thought as an outsider.

Churbleyimyam,

Toasted.

Churbleyimyam,

This is what happens when you don’t really care about your service.

Churbleyimyam,

Pretty sure the UK has given green light to use its weapons on Russian soil. Macron keeps the option open to deploy French troops. US weapons are approved for use against unarmed civilians in Palestine.

🤷‍♀️

Churbleyimyam,

Both are great but I find Organic better for searches and has a simpler UI (so a good replacement for google maps) but OsmAnd has more technical features and better for using offline, importing GPS tracks etc. I use Organic maps in the car and OsmAnd for hiking, cycling and sharing GPS coordinates.

Churbleyimyam,

I’m thinking about offering some workshops. My local authority has funds available for courses and workshops which benefit the community, aimed particularly at people on low incomes. It would be fairly basic stuff, like where to access free software, the advantages of it, some recommendations and perhaps even some introductory lessons on using software like Libreoffice, Thunderbird, KeepassXC, GIMP, F-droid, the Fossify suite etc.

Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens (www.pbs.org)

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....

Churbleyimyam,

SIEZE RUSSIAN MONEY!

This is exactly what they should do. But they won’t, because most of it is held in the City of London’s offshore boltholes. Seizing anything from them would scare the shit out of every big-time capitalist and corrupt politician on the planet. Would be good for us though.

Churbleyimyam,

What I like about this is that in order to appeal to right wing fascism the Tories must oppose the poster-boy for right wing fascism.

Churbleyimyam,

I think that adding to this is people’s heightened perception of danger. You feel safer being higher up (which of course is a fallacy, as this article points out). If it was status and advertising alone driving these sales, I would expect to see sportier-looking cars selling more at the same time. I have also noticed more people using vans as domestic vehicles. Home security stuff seems to have boomed around the same time as well.

Interestingly, the most prominent group I can think of who still value small cars are boy racers.

Churbleyimyam,

Bro hadn’t heard of Monero.

Seriously though, those Czechs are pretty keen on taking care of shit atm.

Churbleyimyam,

Because Russia had so much success against Afghanistan themselves. Pretty sure they’ve had their asses handed to them in the far east as well.

Churbleyimyam,

Thank you. This is the meme that Lemmy has needed for the last week.

Churbleyimyam,

“Scottish Olympian Mistakenly Deported Ahead of Paris Games”

Open source e reader (lemmy.ml)

I recently got a Sony prs 600 e reader from 2009. The battery is at the end of its life (It lasts about 3 days with heavy reading, and a couple weeks without reading). No backlight, no Wi-Fi, just an SD card that I can load epub files and small PDFs. The screen is slow and the contrast isn’t the best. The “touch screen” is...

Churbleyimyam,

I don’t know about open hardware but Inkbox is a FOSS OS which can be installed on Kobo devices. I’d like to try it out.

Churbleyimyam,

ability to export notes from books

This is something I can’t do on my Kobo and annoys me. Which pocketbook do you have?

Churbleyimyam,

Very cool.

Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House (www.theguardian.com)

Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting....

Churbleyimyam,

I heard about this on the radio while I was eating and thought “fuck yeah, big news, looking forward to reading about it online in a bit!”

Totally forgot immediately and instead been looking at dank memes and making incendiary comments in posts about american political issues.

Churbleyimyam,

I don’t think there’s anything as uniquely horrifying and wretched as sitting out a bad a trip.

Churbleyimyam,

Maybe designed to be used with googles Stadia (now defunct I think)?

Churbleyimyam,

Fuck yeah. Biggest employer in Europe NHS England needs to wake up and do this too. In one single licensing agreement they handed Microsoft £163.1 million. Imagine what that could do if spent on linux development instead, or heaven forbid on actual healthcare. It actually boggles my mind that the NHS doesn’t have it’s own distro and do its own development.

Churbleyimyam,

Yeah it’s a shame about that. I wonder if a customer the size of the NHS could make it worth releasing Linux versions of the software though. I mean, if I can get an appimage or flatpak of some small open source cross-platform project surely someone like Canon could release one for their new ultrasound stuff. Especially if they’re being offered an order to roll it out across an entire nations health service?

It would be pretty funny if they just ran it using Wine though!

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

Churbleyimyam,

The difference with kids is that we don’t consider them to have the ability to properly consent or take responsibility for themselves because they haven’t fully developed yet. Hence no voting, drinking, driving, sex etc.

Churbleyimyam,

Powerful vid.

Churbleyimyam,

Yeah my girlfriend’s online-only business account can only be used via their proprietary app.

Been a royal pain in the arse for her.

Churbleyimyam,

Lol

Churbleyimyam,

Beets looks good! This plugin for it looks like it has potential: pypi.org/project/beets-goingrunning/

Churbleyimyam,

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

Churbleyimyam,

Nice, that sounds like a sweet setup. Do you think something similar could work locally?

Churbleyimyam,

Thank you :)

Churbleyimyam,

I can’t find this on f-droid for some reason…

Churbleyimyam,

Confusing… I’m currently using openboard; does that mean I’m actually using heliboard?

Churbleyimyam,

Man that sounds really horrible. I’m sorry to hear your relatives were so unsupportive. I hope everyone gets along now.

Churbleyimyam,

There’s no signup involved for the apps we’re using - you just download them and share IDs with people (you can even choose to add only people who don’t have kids). Worth checking out:

getsession.org/

jami.net/

Churbleyimyam,

Nice, what is your artist name? Maybe I’ve heard you on it!

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