❤️ sex work is work ✊
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.
“Man raised with exact same formative influences in exact same family unit as Billie Eilish, and who spent a majority of his life with her, has similar opinions about what personal aesthetics he appreciates” is not exactly something that gives me any pause.
Oh, and BTW, he’s also a musician, he performs with Billie frequently, they hang out together a LOT, and he’s only 5 yrs older so has had extremely similar musical and cultural influences too.
I’m far more puzzled by the fact that someone out there thinks this is an unexpected situation. It would be more notable if he was into totally different things and dated someone vastly different from the person he grew up with and spends the most time with.
Even if the implied incestuous desire were the case here, that’s also fairly uninteresting. Incest is the most popular fantasy out there, judging by it’s prevalence on porn sites. I don’t even consider it unusual anymore, it’s part of like 75% of mainstream sexual fantasies now. Acting like it’s wild mysterious nonsense if Billie’s brother was “secretly” attracted to his sister is kind of goofy IMO. It would be stranger if he didn’t think his sister was attractive.
I know, I’ve thought about this way too much this morning.
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:
This is probably not an easy question to answer, since, as another comment pointed out, WordPress is both an open source software option to selfhost your website, and also a non-free managed hosting option that you can use to host your website.
For the former, you fully control what plugins are installed, and if you don’t want social media tracking pixels on your site then don’t install one.
For the latter, you also mostly control what gets installed on your hosted website, but not entirely. It’s running on their servers so in theory they could be injecting tracking. I believe they do have some plugins like Jetpack that are always installed on managed websites, with some anti-features included that can be turned on (but don’t have to be).
I always recommend going the self hosted route with WordPress, if you are even the tiniest bit technical minded. It’s very easy to deploy on something like DigitalOcean or your own home server, and then you don’t need to worry about tracking from WordPress.com.
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).
Because you’re the account who posted what I’m responding to.
You didn’t make any substantive critiques about the journalism, so why would anyone be responding to that? All you’ve said is that you “don’t care about ffmpeg”, which is dismissive of the software itself, so yeah obviously people are going to be responding about the software.
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.
It isn’t like it’s a niche secret that YouTube siphons people’s privacy and sells their personal information. Creators being ignorant about that might have been a excuse a decade ago, but not now. I don’t think we should be excusing content creators who collaborate with and benefit from the machinery of viewer-exploitative content distribution that is YouTube.
Edit: also, you’re here in a privacy community defending the violation of privacy that you yourself originally described as dystopian. I’m not trying to be confrontational with you, here. I genuinely do not understand how you can think that content creators bear no responsibility for the dystopian situation you’ve encountered. Certainly they don’t bear all the responsibility for what YouTube does, but they chose to support YouTube by uploading monetized content there.
I’m not saying they should be canceled for that, but appreciated for it? Let’s not.
can’t even show your appreciation without selling more information
The content producer you’re trying to show appreciation for is the one who put their content on a platform that forces you to sell your information in order to appreciate them. Maybe let’s not appreciate those who do that.
Because people (including me) think it looks nicer that way. There’s nothing to “understand” about subjective visual preferences. You don’t like it? That’s okay too!
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.
I’ll gladly take a mid tier device that allows me to have full control over it. High end mobile devices are unnecessary anyway.
(Written from my decidedly mid tier 6 year old Pixel 4 which still performs perfectly well.)
The fact that other publications are more right leaning than The Guardian doesn’t make it left leaning. It’s a liberal paper, supporting liberal positions and routinely expressing opposition to leftists like Corbyn. In my book, support for liberalism and opposition to leftism makes it a right wing publication.
We USians often don’t realize that the Guardian is a right wing publication. A frustrating number of people in US circles (especially liberals who don’t know they aren’t leftists) think anything European/UK is ideal and that conservatives don’t have any influence there.
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.