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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/busterkeaton@lemmy.ca

An endearing and even moving short clip of Buster singing "June Night" and "Casey Jones".

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IrfanView is a great piece of software for Windows. One of those "jack of all trades, master of none". It works as a simple image & video viewer and browser, can do simple and not-so-simple image manipulation, and even batch jobs, like conversion, on selections of images in folders.

For Linux (and other platforms) there's XnView MP that offers extremely similar functionalities.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/newcommunities@lemmy.world

In the past two days I've been trying to create a community, but without success. I insert the name (with the allowed characters), the display name, and so on. But when I click on create a spinning wheel appears for a second or two, then goes back to create and nothing has happened. I created two communities previously (10 days ago or so) without problems.

I imagine it's just an effect of the current load for Lemmy.world, but wanted to ask just in case.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

PS: there's also another functionality of Klipper that I use from time to time: you can make the whole "killring" appear, and choose the entry you want to paste with the mouse: as you click it it's entered. This is also bound to a key (in my case S-w) and works no matter which window I'm in.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Gotcha. Yes, haven't found anything that allows that specifically. But in my case I don't need to enable klipper; it's always active. No matter which windows I'm in, pressing C-v will paste whatever it's in the clipboard; whereas pressing e.g. S-v C-v will choose the previous item in the clipboard and then paste it.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately I didn't enjoy the 1st season, just like other commenters here. A preliminary reason could be that the story is very different from the book, which is one of my most favourite sci-fi books ever. But even simply seeing this series as something different from the book, if found it too cheap: the characters are half-stereotypes, the events are what you'd expect, usual blood and sex to attract viewers...

Should go without saying, just my personal opinion and tastes. I'm happy that others enjoyed the series and I hope it'll made them curious to read the books.

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Masterpiece (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/cat@lemmy.world

(Just found somewhere on the internet)

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the heads-up. I only read two chapters from the book and was put off somehow. I imagine it gets better?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

NB: According to some of the suggestions below, this post has been made into a community:

https://lemmy.ca/c/software_alternatives_linux

Hope to see many of view posting software alternatives there!

Many members of this community are computer users who recently moved to Linux from other OSs, Windows in particular. Having established their work and hobbies on a particular software base, they often encounter difficulties trying to find similar software on Linux.

I'd like this to be a sort of board where members comment about some software alternative they're looking for, and other members sub-comment with possible solutions.

What's a solution? It's important to be broad-minded about this when switching to Linux:

  • Exactly the same software could be available for Linux.

  • Different software but with similar critical features could be available for Linux.

  • It could be possible to use emulators (such as Wine) of the old OS.

  • Finally, one can change one's perspective or workflow, in such a way that the old software is not needed any longer, but is replaced with other software of a different kind (this may actually lead to much improved workflows).

(Moderators: feel free to take over this post. Also please let me know if a similar board exists already here, so I delete this.)

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you right-click on the Klipper tray icon, select "Configure..." and then "Shortcuts", you can assign shortcuts to move back and forth in the kill ring, and to paste. I have assigned S-v for backwards and S-C-v for forward. Then the usual C-v will paste. The tray icon also shows you the current selection (and the ones above and below) in the killring, as you move through it.

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...at least for X1 Extreme.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/linuxonthinkpad@lemmy.world
[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I don't understand about the ending is this, if anyone has hypotheses (or knows from the books):

spolierWhy do they project a green world in the helmet of those who go out? Doesn't it defeat the purpose?

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Completely agree! The finale left room for a new season or a new related series.

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Person of Interest (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

You are being watched. The government has a secret system, a machine that spies on you every hour of every day. I designed the machine to detect acts of terror, but it sees everything. Violent crimes involving ordinary people. The government considers these people "irrelevant". We don't. Hunted by the authorities, we work in secret. You'll never find us. But victim or perpetrator, if your number's up... we'll find you.

Who remembers and misses this outstanding show? Will we ever enjoy the like again? It's still so actual in these AI days.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, not. The reason I switched to Plasma is that I didn't like the basic layout – horizontal bar especially – and wanted a desktop environment that allowed me to customize positions and sizes of bars and so on as much as possible.

Still baffles me why they steal the screen's usually scarce vertical real estate with a horizontal bar, instead of putting it on the side...

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Severance (m.media-amazon.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

Severance was one of the most beautiful series I watched of late. Not just intriguing, but beautiful, artistically beautiful. Very happy to hear it's been renewed for a second season.

Let's discuss it! :)

PS: and here you can find Severance: The Lexington Letter – the cherry on the show.

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Great that it's in the todo-list anyway. I usually use the Any2DjVu server for converting and OCR-ing documents in pdf format. The djvu file is typically 20% size of the original pdf, and the OCR is usually better too. I'll check on your project regularly for updates :)

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

PS: nice software your Paperwork. I hope in the future you'll add support for djvu format – most of my documents are in that format (it saves a lot of memory for scanned documents, compared to pdf).

[-] pglpm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Time to switch to PeerTube or similar federate platform soon then...

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/opm@lemmy.world
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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/opm@lemmy.world

(From Chapter 186.)

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Saitama meme among Linux users (webcache.googleusercontent.com)
submitted 1 year ago by pglpm@lemmy.world to c/opm@lemmy.world

This appeared on Reddit a while ago... User deleted unfortunately.

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