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[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Stirling-PDF can do 10x as many kinds of tasks as pdftk can. I used to use pdftk until I discovered Stirling-PDF and have never looked back.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

The freemium, offline-capable software Stirling-PDF is king of open-source PDF-editing. Nothing else comes even close, despite how counterintuitive its UI can be. Ironically enough, the creator said it was originally a ChatGPT experiment, but once it went viral, he ended up hiring others and they all regularly improve it as its staff.

If you are on Windows, head over to @ahk@programming.dev and we'll see what we can do about automating the removal per pg. via AutoHotkey.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Heck, it doesn't even have to be a girl. https://dateeverything.com/

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Blokus sort of slowly blossoms and then gradually squeezes. That's still nothing compared to Go, haha.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 7 points 3 weeks ago

Haha, fair. What I mean is that I highly recommend it to anyone who could stomach such an intense topic!

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 4 points 3 weeks ago

And then all of this gave birth to the terrorists known as the Naturalists™...

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

I couldn't stand this game. I tried it and it is just way too janky. But I also don't like Diablo-likes and prefer twin-stick action...

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

Use PeaZip (which is better than 7-ZIP because it's cross-platform) to split large files into as many smaller chunks as you'd like.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

You have to decide for yourself whether your efforts are worth it despite no visible effect. You don't know whether your content may have affected one reader (or many more) who simply didn't say anything.

I'll personally never stop notifying people of tracker-free URLs, for example. The way I look at it is: I don't care if they actually change or not. What I care about is that I ensure they are without excuse if they don't change, because I served as the messenger and they heard the word, even if they reject it.

So at least I will have done my part, so no one can put it back on me and say I didn't try. Putting the ball in their court is what matters; why would you change your behavior because of what others do/don't do? That'd be one flimsy philosophy, right?

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The movie was absolutely incredible. I highly recommend Anthropoid to everyone. It's not for the faint of heart.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh. Well, if the mods are this active, then that could probably be changed, too! I'm not trying to insult you or something; I just think the titles could be made much more meaningful with just a bit more focus (which also means they could potentially attract more redditors or other lurking, fence-sitting denizens of the Internet through quality stuff in both title and body).

 

I thrived on daily reading of a few multireddits, which are specific clusters of the same subreddits, as my default view; I only went to the general feed for all of my subscribed communities every once in a while.

For example: https://old.reddit.com/r/YouShouldKnow+LifeProTips+dataisbeautiful

Is this possible on Lemmy?

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/syncthing@programming.dev
 

Apparently, my phone (which is an intermediary across PCs) didn't sync properly and now I have a couple of sync conflicts of spreadsheets (specifically LibreOffice Calc's .ODS files). These are... kinda large tables I've got here, with multiple tabs.

Normally with .TXT files I can easily use VSCodium's file-comparison feature to instantly spot highlighted line discrepancies on both sides, but how might you resolve spreadsheet conflicts?

Is there no other way than to page down monitor-size by monitor-size in each file, Alt+Tabbing from one to the other and visually inspecting for changes every step of the way until you spot something (hopefully)? I can't think of any less-tedious way...

... apart from, hmm, I guess my own folly in not noting version changes at the top of each file. I guess I'm only used to doing that with actual code... but I may have to start doing so with all synced, regularly edited files...

 

Check your account; I'm not sure if this was targeted at me or if everyone got offered it, but I used the offer on Slice & Dice after weeks of repeatedly playing its demo and am loving it!

 

Man, I don't understand why Catfriend1 just puts a literal period or bullet point for the version notes. It always freaks me out into wondering if the account was hacked and if the app was compromised and would cause file deletion or something. This app has become too useful!

 
  1. Post a comment
  2. Begin editing that comment
  3. Press the pencil-icon "submit" button without actually having edited anything

Expected outcome: nothing happens to the comment
Current outcome: the comment gets a pencil mark

I don't remember how I ended up doing step 3 (I think I meant to edit yet accidentally hit the "submit" button), but that was my observation of this fringe issue, anyway.

 
  1. Go here https://lemmy.today/comment/14903795
  2. Hold your finger over any of that comment's links
  3. Copy the link

Expected behavior: the share panel should close

Current behavior: it doesn't, which sometimes confuses me into thinking I didn't actually tap the button

 

It was their first time experiencing VR and one of them said they could play QubeFall for hours! It's such a bummer that that game never made it out of its prototype stage.

 

If it's in the same line as the username, it gets overrun by the domain (for those of us who like to see user domains).

 

Darn, if not.

 

I've played some games for which I want to make comms, but I'd rather make them on a gaming-related instance like Lemmy.zip rather than my registered one. Is this possible or would I need to make and manage a second account on the target instance?

Or could someone there just make /c/FTL and /c/SliceandDice? Lol.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/sikulix@programming.dev
 

I'm trying to learn SikuliX, but the documentation is incredibly hard to understand. I'm trying to get it to simply press Ctrl+A just to practice, but this doesn't seem to work and causes it to type only a literal a:

wait(0.5)
keyDown(KEY_CTRL)
wait(0.5)
type('a')
keyUp(KEY_CTRL)

Ultimately, I'm trying to figure out how to get it to press Ctrl+Shift+A. Any help would be appreciated!

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