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takeheart

@ takeheart @lemmy.world

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  • Commandline memes

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  • git gud

    not a meme per se but I always found the command abcde confusing:

    user1: How to best rip this music album??

    user2: Oh simple: abcde

    user1: 🤔🤔?

    abcde stands for 'a better CD encoder', the more you know

  • Not Total Recall (1990)

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  • I mean taking the screenshot is the easy part, getting reliable OCR on the other hand ...

    In my experience (tesseract) current OCR works well for continuous text blocks but it has a hard time with tables, illustrations, graphs, gui widgets, etc.

  • State of S3 - Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore

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  • Is that what the Steam Deck uses? It's pretty useful.

  • Can Trump still run for president now that he's a convicted felon?

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  • The 35 year old requirement seems bizarrely high to me, I can't see why a smart and capable 32 year old should be prevented from running for the office. A minimum age makes sense, but it's weird that it's far removed from when most states start to legally treat kids as adults (anywhere from 16 to 21).

  • Linux native game Capes released today

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  • Oh nice, I had a lot of fun with the demo back then. I'd describe it as basically XCOM 2 but with super heroes and you can pull off a lot of fun combos when your heroes work together.

  • [SOLVED] if I copy a ff profile (folder) in a new computer I should see the bookmarks as well, right?

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  • You can export all your bookmarks to a single JSON file. it's a format designed for storing and exchanging data between machines just like this.

    Also good for making local backups of your favorites.

  • toxic help forum

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  • You're right. What I actually wish for is a "export selection" functionality so that you can quickly drag a rectangular selection and export that.

  • toxic help forum

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  • Oh I wish GIMP had a "export visible" functionality. My workaround is usually to "copy visible" and then paste to a new image.

  • toxic help forum

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  • I tried using Krita instead of gimp but found it hard to do color management: adjust levels, exposure, color curves and such. At the time I simply couldn't find any dialogs to do many of those tasks.

  • If an oven only has fan forced mode do i still need to set it to the fan forced temperature in recipes? Ie 160 instead of 180.

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  • Pretty much. I keep a sheet of aluminum ready to put on top in case the outside is getting too crisp while the inside still needs more time.

  • Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives

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  • i see a keyboard , but no track pads. track pads are really versatile and a key feature of the deck. this keyboard doesn't look to comfortable to use either. Maybe it's ok ish if you put down the device on flat ground and are seated, but typing on this thing while holding it in your hands is going to require some amazing thumb agility.

    I have a small Bluetooth keyboard paired with my steam deck that I use whenever I need to input longer stretches of text. it works out just fine.

  • Seriously, WTF is up with that?

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  • I mean you could alias the glob option as the default but I clearly see your point about standardized default behaviour.

  • Dual booters be like

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  • You bring up a pretty good point. Whenever I have a personal document that could go into multiple categories (eg a travel insurance certificate can go into travel, insurance, or finance folder) I place it in all 3 at once with hard links. What's more is that if I intuitively first search for a document in place A but it's actually in place B I simply place a link in A for the next time.

    Before I learned a bit about file systems I didn't even conceive of such a thing being possible; precisely because the folder metaphor had imprinted upon me the physical world constraint that things can only be in a single place at once.

  • Dual booters be like

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  • Aha, to me it's an apt metaphors as files go into folders and it fits with the whole desktop analogy.

  • Dual booters be like

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  • So what's the difference?

    My intuition is that directory is the older term and refers to something existing on the file system while folder can be that but also includes "virtual folders" that group together different files from across the file system like when photo manager shows you categories like 'recently viewed' or 'taken in 2023'.

  • Music Players

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  • I much like Quod Libet. It has a clean, functional interface to manage your local music collection. Also support for Plugins is nice.

    You can create Boolean Logic filters like (played < 10 times AND genre = classical AND composer = Mozart) which I appreciate. And some of the included tools like being able to automatically create meta data tags from file names (for instance

    <artist>

    -

    <album>

    -

    <track>

    .mp3).

    It's the best replacement for Music Bee (Windows only) that I've come across.

  • How do you know if you have a Habit?

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  • Yeah the locker/towel thing would be a habit especially if you don't actively think about it.

    You may not have a strong daily routine but all humans have habits and it's precisely because you don't actively think about them a lot that it's can be hard to become cognizant of them.

    They also include behavioral preferences such as scratching your chin with your right hand when lost in thought 🤔, calling your girlfriend 'honey' frequently, consuming certain foods/beverages more than others, separating the trash, opening up social Media on your smart phone when bored, or taking your jacket with you when you go outside.

    Those are not the same for everyone but everyone has them useless maybe some severe medical condition is present.

  • Excluding the Horror genre and individual movies in a series, what movie story ends with evil winning?

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  • Fair point. Although I suspect you could still kill people that just happen to be walking by the buildings and such.

  • Do we intentionally translate ancient stuff and languages to sound old timey as an artistic choice, or is there some other reason?

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  • Tacking on: as far as translation of ancient texts is concerned there is also a selection bias. It is far more likely that an important formal document endured the times than some every day scribble. Of course a political treaty is crafted, conserved and replicated more carefully than a note someone left for their neighbor. Both the skill of writing and the materials required were much rarer and access more prevalent among the upper classes. Finally important formal documents are more likely to be translated precisely because they are important. Imagine that in 2000 years from now you would be one of the few scholars capable of translating English. You would be much more to likely to study and translate the declaration of independence than some mundane Twitter post.