Hopefully this isn’t falling on deaf ears, but language is intimately more beautiful when you bend the rules: https://youtu.be/J7E-aoXLZGY

This right here I think is the ultimate way to practice religion. It’s an excellent framework for helping understand your connection to the universe and how your morality intertwines.

I’ve been reading up on Taoism and one of the things I resonated with is that it accepts the idea that you can worship anything. Even a rock. It’s not about actually believing that the thing holds power, but rather allowing yourself to give in a bit to the universe in an understanding that you are ultimately powerless. You have to give up some of your agency to the idea that there is power beyond your control and understanding and you have to accept that.

If you believe you’re an individual being separate from the world around you, the world will catch up to that idea. Aggressively. But if you accept that the world does not cater to you, and if you surrender some of that responsibility to a higher power, you’re not nearly as blindsided when the world finds you.

I’ve never had to code professionally, but even on my personal projects, I don’t want a single extra line in the program that doesn’t need to be there and I should be able to understand the purpose of every line years later.

My eyes glaze over whenever I look at corporate code because there are so many moving parts at that scale all from different qualities of programming.

I don’t know if this is a practical thought, but I really wish we could get away from every project being monstrously sized. I prefer small packaged ideas similar to terminal commands. Just because it has a GUI doesn’t mean you need to design every piece of software as if I’m going to spend a day in it. Just give me small, purpose-built tools I can understand and then stop eternally developing and adding features.

To add to this, it seems that every company now either makes one piece of software or 36 different softwares. If they make one piece of software, they endlessly pack it with features people don’t want and if they’re the latter, every piece of software is a hastily-cobbled-together half idea and they just move onto another piece of software. Is there really not a middle ground here?

Now I have to factor the time it took a trained engineer to design this 😭

Knowing the absurd amount of filament it took to print this monstrosity is making me feel things.

VERT is a file conversion utility that uses WebAssembly to convert files on your device instead of a cloud.

Doesn’t sound like you’re uploading to the server.

One of the tasks I find myself wanting to do all the time is clip my own gifs without having to use a whole dedicated app or busting out a video editor. I know it’s a lot more complex, but a system for doing basic video clipping would be amazing. I could be way off base, but I would think since you’re already using ffmpeg, maybe this isn’t too far of a stretch, but I understand if this is way beyond scope.

I don’t really follow any holiday traditions anymore. My friends don’t get me stuff and I don’t get them stuff.

I even stay home for Thanksgiving and don’t go to watch fireworks on the 4th.

It’s not that I don’t get out, but more so that I avoid the calamity everyone else is in on those days. To me, it’s a day off work and some time to catch up on chores or projects.

But that’s more tha- Oh.

Didn’t work for me. I don’t have any pictures of mountains, though.

One of my favorite standup sets of all time

It’s wild that it’s been at least 15 years since I last saw this movie and I could instantly recognize it as Scary Movie 3.

I mentioned this in another thread, but I’d rather be struggling and free than struggling and oppressed.

Guys, I didn’t mean it, but I hope my Future Woman With Corn post wasn’t the thing that set off this whole train.

It’s been a long while since I used it and at one point I did figure out how to browse it, but I remember documentation pointing out that it’s meant to be left alone and do all your file management through NextCloud itself.

Sometimes I needed to do big file operations or drop in a chunk of data straight from the server, but it wouldn’t ingest those files unless I did a sync or upload them using the client.

Maybe things have changed, but last I used it, it was 14 services that were all sort of good when I needed the service to do one thing really well.

I played it like 2 or 3 years ago and had a blast with it all the way through the full campaign again. I wouldn’t say it’s the best story, but I loved traveling all around the sea and meeting all the characters. I’m into AC games for the immersion and gameplay. Story is the last reason I play these.

I have about 6% confidence this will capture what made me enjoy the first game. I’ll probably just replay the original again.

I constantly would get files stuck in the database that I couldn’t delete. All of the forum posts would talk about going into the database to fix it, but the whole point of NextCloud for me was to completely avoid database management.

I’ve fallen back to using DUFS or copyparty for most things since I really just needed my file store to be browsable via web in some cases.

I probably would still be using NextCloud if they didn’t obfuscate the file system.

You should dress up KDE to look like Windows 11 just to prove a point.

I find a big part of trying to be the friend that transitions others to Linux is taking on the role of mentor. It’s something a lot of wish we could just hand to someone and dust off our hands, but that ultimately leads to experiences like yours.

For a better chance of success, especially on first install, be on the line with them as they go through the steps, or in person is better yet.

Answer all the questions you can and help them install all their usual stuff. Most people don’t want to have to go through this change, so making it fun and social goes a long way.