I’m always confused by people saying that Vortex doesn’t work on Linux, when I’ve used it for years now on both my Fedora desktop and my Steam Deck. I didn’t even have to do anything outrageous to get it working. Install with Lutris like anything else made for Windows, press play, it works great.

Edit: Realized this sounded maybe judgmental, when I didn’t mean it to. Not trying to make anyone feel bad in any way. More like encouragement, because once you get over the hump of figuring out how to use tools like Lutris to run games, running Vortex is the same process.

A so-called “neutral accent” is still an accent.

The specific font isn’t as important for me. Mostly I’ll use whatever sans serif option is available in the reader, since I generally despise serifs. Very occasionally I’ll go for a serif font on a fantasy book for “atmosphere”, though.

Can’t you already do that from Nautilus with bookmarked sftp locations?

I’m not commenting to discourage other tools from being made, just curious if there’s some aspect of that process that isn’t already easy to accomplish on Linux with existing GUI tools, or if you’d like to be able to do it differently is all.

Thanks, yeah I think so. At least, I’ve followed all the steps outlined here https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia but VLC and gstreamer apps continue to tell me that I’m missing codecs. I am stumped, but happy that at least Jellyfin plays everything.

I somehow keep running across videos that won’t load in Clapper, Showtime, mpv, VLC, or Handbrake, and Nautilus won’t show thumbnails for them. It’s very frustrating. Supposedly I’ve already installed all the available codecs from RPMFusion, but still get the “codec missing” error on a bunch of videos.

Jellyfin on the other hand, it plays everything I’ve ever thrown at it. I don’t know what the hell it’s doing differently from the other video players on my system, but it works great.

This looks great so far! I love the concept of an app that makes conversions easy for the most typical use cases.

It looks like you’re still early in the UI phase, so you probably have plans for this already, but I feel like the progress screen could use more feedback than only two progress bars.

Overall though, this looks like it could be solid! Good luck!

Making apps with Godot is actually very doable, it takes care of a lot of the typical annoyances involved with that process like UI layout, theme support, and cross platform distribution. The Godot language (GDScript) is very approachable and powerful, too.

The Godot editor itself is made with Godot, and here’s a few other nice examples of apps that I know of:

GodSVG

Wonderdraft (paid app)

Pixelorama

Are you able to recommend any shows or movies that portray Egypt and your culture well?

We Americans don’t get a lot of exposure to Egypt much outside of media like Indiana Jones or Moon Knight (which, despite having scenes set in Cairo, wasn’t filmed in Egypt as far as I know).

Yes, this happens all the time to me. I think it’s a relatively common thing for autists to emote differently, and I’m autistic, so I guess it makes sense for me. People who know me well can definitely detect my smiles though, so that’s nice. I’ve been trying to get used to overcompensating for strangers to make sure they see my expressions, and I just hope that it doesn’t end up looking too uncanny valley.

Your comments are not wrong, but also Trump is not the sole issue here. There would still be a problem even if he was removed from office today.

Proprietary software and services are an issue regardless of which government jurisdiction they fall under. It’s a good idea for the EU to be moving to open source instead of proprietary solutions based in the EU.

Calibre will work for this, but it almost certainly won’t give a good result. That’s not Calibre’s fault; Adobe InDesign produces exactly the same horrible output from a PDF. It’s just a reality that PDF does not lend itself gracefully to being converted easily to a well behaved EPUB.

Unless you are converting something extremely simple with no inline images or interesting text layout, getting a nice EPUB will almost definitely be a tedious process of fiddling directly with the HTML and CSS with something like Sigil (or Calibre, but it’s not as nice).

I last left this morning for work. The last I left for my own enjoyment was last weekend for the Pride parade. (State of GA in the USA celebrates in October for some reason.)

(I tried to spoiler this bottom part since you didn’t ask for advice, but I guess I don’t know how. Sorry.)

I suffer from chronic depression, so I might know something of what you’re going through. Hang in there, friend. It gets better, eventually.

Also, I know this probably sounds ridiculous (it does to me when I remind myself of it while depressed, especially since I’m also autistic and antisocial) but the safety of home makes depression worse for me. It’s the last thing that I want to do while depressed, but it really does help tremendously to get out and do something. Anything. Go to the grocery store and buy a ramen or whatever, it doesn’t matter. Go through the human line to checkout so that you have to interact with a person in some capacity. It’s silly, but it does help me a tiny bit.

The next day, try to do it again, it helps a tiny bit again. Eventually all the tiny little bits add up, maybe, but even if they don’t then at least it’s a tiny bit better all along.

This is a good idea, except that it requires money. I already have an old Pixel right here that I can put Graphene on.

I guess my point is, it’s not necessary to harass people about their choice of phone OS before you know their situation. 🤷

Because of investors needing a quick “win” with a game studio acquisition, and because gamers buy the slop that someone managed to shit out while trying to appease those investors.

The investors cash out and are emboldened to go burn some other game studio into the ground again. If the studio hasn’t imploded badly enough yet, the investors demand another game with whatever IP “worked” last time, but at a lesser budget with more aggressive deadlines, so the next result that is shit out is worse, but players still buy it.

The cycle continues endlessly, it’s the same pattern in every industry because it’s all the same tiny group of investors with “diversified portfolios” ruining everything in the name of profit.

I have been using Bazarr for that, it works well. Pretty much just set it and forget it, and subtitles are just… there.

Intelligence is a difficult thing to measure, especially merely by interacting with a person for a little while.

Many of the answers in this thread amount to privileged assumptions that fail to account for the fact that what they describe as signs of lacking intelligence could also be symptoms of exhaustion and alienation inherent to conditions such as living under a capitalist system and/or neurodiversity and/or disability and/or sickness and/or…

For example, when someone works 16 hours a day for 5/6 days a week, they are far less likely to have the energy for using their little free time away from work to ponder deep questions at the same level as someone privileged enough to have a less demanding existence. This is not correlated with their intelligence in any way.

How can you seriously assert that people are using the term too lightly when you apparently don’t even know why they’re saying it?

Could you define the words “fascist” and “communist” as you understand them?

Hmm, fair enough. I was just going off the dictionary definition of parasite which I suppose isn’t the medical definition.