My somewhat convoluted solution is using Scrivener 3 in Wine. Takes a bit of setting up but works really well for me now. Also it’s not a dedicated screenwriting software (it’s designed for novels I think) but it has a screenwriting mode which does everything I need it to.
Mine used to be like that, but now my home folder is rehabilitated by turning ~/Documents into a hellhole of accumulated junk instead.
You can also just make a file called .hidden and paste the names in there and it’ll hide them, that way it doesn’t mess up any paths/symlinks etc. Or at least in KDE/Dolphin you can do that, I dunno about other setups.
I feel like you could still do very well in life if you controlled literally all the gold in the world, but also he is Warren Buffet and my current wallet is one that I found on the ground, so I am willing to defer to the experts here.
(NB, the wallet was empty, I’m no savage)
Yeah that’s fair. And mine were pretty small scripts so easy enough to check, and I keep proper backups and whatnot so no big deal. But like I say I wouldn’t use it for anything big or important.
It’s like that old meme about how Luke is a desert farmer who is given weapons and radicalized by a bearded man in a cave, then goes off to a militia training camp and eventually blows up a government installation.
My favourite one (it happens a lot in the UK and I assume in other places too) is when people say things like “I support the cause but the protest is really disruptive.”
Like no shit, that’s the entire point of a protest. They also sometimes complain about strikes being inconvenient for them. Oh, is this strike illustrating to you why this service is essential and it would be bad if it went away?
One time when I used to be on reddit I had an argument with someone who was against a climate protest because it could have blocked an ambulance and gotten someone killed. But this was after the protest had already happened and that had not occurred. So you don’t support it because of a hypothetical disaster that you just made up, that already didn’t happen? People, man
I still have a dual-boot desktop that I keep a copy of Windows 10 on for one or two bits of software that I can’t get 100% working in Wine, and yeah I’m definitely not upgrading. For one thing I can’t because it’s an older CPU that doesn’t have TPM on it, but also because of the AI thing.
The idea that Microsoft is expecting me to purchase new hardware (which is now ludicrously expensive because of companies like Microsoft going all-in on AI slop) so that I can ‘upgrade’ and make it easier for them to use their AI slop spyware to harvest my info is so preposterously arrogant and evil that I actually find it super funny.
It’s like if someone was going to rob you and they expected you to go purchase and supply the gun they use to stick you up with lol.
Yeah pretty much! TBH for the first one there are already things online that can do that, I just wanted to test how the AI would do so I gave it a simple thing, it worked well and so I kept using it. The second one I wasn’t sure about because it’s a bit copyright-y, but yeah like you say it was just quicker. I wouldn’t use the AI for anything super important, but I figured it’d do for a quick little script that only needs to do one specific thing just for me.
Thunderbird can do something like this! It’s called ‘Unified folders’ on desktop and ‘Unified Inbox’ on mobile I think? But essentially it takes all your inboxes and makes them into a single folder.
I’d normally have Pop as as more of a starter distro, although I haven’t been recommending it lately just because it’s in a bit of an awkward spot in crossing over from GNOME to COSMIC. Not that I dislike COSMIC, I just wouldn’t want a newbie to install the GNOME version and then have to go through switching their whole DE right off the bat.
As an FYI in case you didn’t know you can also stack them when they go on sale. I have like 3 of them on the same account lol
Not OP but I made a little menu thing for launching VMs and a script for grabbing trailers for downloaded movies that reads the name of the folder, finds the trailer and uses yt-dlp to grab it, puts it in the folder and renames it.
I asked the Brave search AI thing and it said this:
what is the biggest number
There is no largest number because the set of natural numbers is infinite; for any number you can think of, adding one produces a larger number. While infinity is often mentioned, it is not a number but an abstract concept representing boundlessness.
Among named numbers, a googol ( 10^100 ) is a 1 followed by 100 zeros, and a googolplex ( 10^googol ) is 1 followed by a googol of zeros, making it vastly larger than a googol. The googolplex is so large that writing it out would require more space than the observable universe contains.
However, even larger numbers exist in mathematical contexts. Graham’s number, used in a proof in Ramsey theory, is significantly larger than a googolplex and was once considered the largest number used in a legitimate mathematical proof. It is so immense that it cannot be expressed using standard scientific notation and requires special notations like Knuth’s up-arrow or Conway chained arrow notation.
Other extremely large numbers include TREE(3), which grows faster than any primitive recursive function and is independent of weak arithmetic systems, and Friedman’s SSCG(3), which is much larger than TREE(3). The Busy Beaver function produces numbers that are uncomputable and exceed any computable function.
Rayo’s number is defined as “the smallest positive integer bigger than any finite positive integer named by an expression in the language of first-order set theory with a googol symbols or less” and is considered one of the largest named numbers. Similarly, BIG FOOT is a number proposed as even larger than Rayo’s number.
In summary, while numbers like a googolplex are often cited as the largest named numbers, mathematical constructs such as Graham’s number, TREE(3), and Rayo’s number are vastly larger and demonstrate that there is no upper limit to how large a number can be.
No idea if that’s accurate or not but it sounds legit lol.
TBH the last few years have taught me not to underestimate the amount of idiocy or sycophancy the current government is capable of, so Trump tripping balls on LSD and being allowed to nuke Greenland isn’t entirely off my bingo card.
Nixon being a paranoid alcoholic by that point probably wouldn’t have helped either.
I’m trying to think of the last time I heard news about something to do with the internet getting better instead of worse, and I’m genuinely coming up blank.
One time I got on the bus and there was a big sketchy-looking dude, definitely on something, sitting at the back laughing hysterically. Out of common sense I kept my distance at first, but I was kind of looking at him out of the corner of my eye to see what was going on, and I saw he was reading a book. This guy was literally almost rolling on the floor laughing, and I decided I have to find out what this book is.
Being a… not very large person myself this was sketchy, but he seemed to be oblivious to everything else around him so I sat opposite kind of close to see what book this jacked-up crackhead was losing his shit over. It was Bridget Jones’ Diary. I still haven’t read it but I think that’s a good recommendation.
I’ve seen people pooping on the bus stop from inside the bus, but luckily I haven’t had anyone do it inside the actual bus yet.
Also one time our city decided to close all the train station bathrooms to stop people from OD-ing in them. But this of course also stopped people from going to the bathroom, so people just started pissing on the floor outside the locked doors. They’re open again now.
I understand why it doesn’t exist because it’s pretty niche and a shitload of work, but I wish there was a a really good dedicated 2D animation software similar to Moho Pro or Toon Boom Harmony on Linux. That’s one of the only reasons I’m still keeping Windows around.
Also as a side note, don’t trust Toon Boom. I bought a perpetual license from them that was super expensive, and then they switched to a subscription model and turned off my perpetual license.