[–] 1 point 1 day ago

No such thing. We are all just people on a spectrum somewhere between good and evil. No such thing as pure good, and no such thing as pure evil.

Even Hitler loved dogs.

That being said, however, I can't think of a single positive thing about Trump

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  • [–] 8 points 2 days ago

    Back in the day when camping wasn't just condos on wheels; when the best a poor man could hope for was a pop-up tent trailer in a campsite with a picnic table and one of those swiveling barbecues on a post, Instant coffee was my jam.

    Early morning. Mist from the lake still not fully burned off. No constant background hum from power lines. Just me, getting the barbecue fire started while drinking my cup of instant coffee that I made with my portable kettle that plugs into my trucks cigarette lighter port.

    Instant coffee will always be special to me.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 days ago

    Called it.

    The moment I saw an example of how it tended to shrink the size of North America on the map, I KNEW is be waking up to a story about the Cheeto administration having a problem with it.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    Imajica by Clive Barker flipped a switch in my (then) teenage brain making me understand that "fantasy" books don't need to have swords, wizards, and all the other tropes. That the idea of "fantasy" as a genre is far far richer than I imagined.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    It's not even about "spending your own resources on others". Its about where the government spends YOUR money.

    If I pay $100 dollars in income tax (for example), is the government spending that $100 dollars on MY healthcare, MY roads, MY sewage and water lines, MY roads.

    Or is the government handing my $100 dollars off to private contracts who are then profit motivated to spend only $20 dollars providing those services so that they can keep as much of it as possible?

    Socialism isn't "free stuff" or directly paying for other peoples stuff. It's about making sure the tax dollars are spent on US. When that happens, a surplus results that allows us to help others who are struggling.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago* (1 child)

    The writer of the video is (presumably) a paid, working writer. And as such they should know better.

    it's like a car reviewer saying "its a friction point that it won't win the Grand Prix" when he's reviewing an '81 Chevette.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago

    Sure. If for whatever reason you need to re-edit something that you didn't shoot yourself and you don't have access to the source files. I suppose that would be one reason to edit the MP4 directly. (so for example, if you're re-editing someone's youtube video to make a remix of it for Tiktok). But I don't consider that to be "professional" editing.

    Professional editing is getting hired by a filmmaker (or creating video yourself) that you then edit into a completed work. And in those cases, I'd question why they're either a) filming in a format like MP4 in the first place, or b) not making the LOG or ProRes source files available to their editor.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (7 children)

    Video Editing (Free DaVinci Resolve): Free Resolve on Linux lacks native H.264/H.265 MP4 decoding due to licensing. It requires running FFmpeg scripts to transcode footage to ProRes/DNxHR before editing.

    If you're editing MP4 directly, you're an amateur who has no business editing anything. MP4 is a compressed finalized format suitable for distribution. It gives you virtually zero wiggle room for color correction, etc...

    There's a reason professionals shoot log and shoot in a RAW format that is made specifically for editing. It's only when the project is ready to be exported should you be going anywhere near MP4.

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  • submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by to c/joplinapp@sopuli.xyz
     

    ~~Just wondering if the flatpak is an official package by the devs or by a third party. I'm unable to sync until the flatpak updates to 3.7.0+ and the last update to the flatpak was a couple of months ago. ~~

    Edit: Never mind. Found my answer here. Didn't find it at first because I was looking at the Joplin Github issues page and not the specific Flatpak Github issue page.

    Carry on. I'm an idiot.

     

    The vast majority of interactions with the public can be taken care of with non-lethal means, tasers, etc... (if any are even necessary).

    Lethal weapons should be in a remote lock holster in their cruiser, and must be unlocked remotely by a supervisor on a per-case basis depending on the facts at hand (suspect's history, potential risk, etc...)

    Maybe that's pie in the sky optimism, I don't know.

     

    It's sucking up metal and dropping it!


    Jesus...H...Christ...

    I'm sitting here on my tablet while my father watches Age of Extinction (visiting for the weekend), and every once I a while a line that is so... fucking...stupid enters my ears and leaves me dumbfounded.

    submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/kde@lemmy.ml
     

    UPDATE: Long story short...I still have no clue. Unplugging my second monitor got the proprietary drivers working properly on KDE Neon, but not on any Arch based distro I tried. I tried kernels from 6.1 to 6.18, and drivers all the way from 470 (disaster) to 595, dkms and open. Followed all the advice on the Arch docs regarding power management, blacklisting, etc...

    Soooo....I don't know. But I'm up and running with a single monitor on an Ubuntu based distro, which isn't ideal, but right now I'll take what I can get.

     

    In a few days, the final two components will arrive to finally get a fully capable desktop PC again after roughly six months limited to a tiny chromebook wiped and replaced with Linux.

    It took a while to have the spare cash to get a new/used system off of ebay with the intention of transferring the bulk of my higher end parts from my old desktop to that one, only to realize that the new desktop used a Lenovo 10 pin Power supply, so I'd have to order an adapter to be able to install my 750 watt PSU in order to install my 3060 Graphics Card.

    That should be arriving this week, as well as an extra 16 gigs of ram to add to the 16 already in it.

    So when all is said and done, what should be my celebration game after six months of being limited to an ex-chromebook with 4 gigs of ram?

    • EU4
    • HOI4
    • KSP
    • XCOM 2 (war of the chosen)
    • Rimworld
    • Civ VI
    • Uboat

    Those are the ones that I've been missing the most these last six months. Which game, say you?

     

    Need some advice.

    I've been consistently upgrading my old desktop for a long time now; knowing full well that someday it would just not be uppgradable anymore and it wouuld hit it's upper limit.

    I'm hoping it's not doing it now, right when computer memory is getting ridiculous. And I don't have the money for a new one.

    A couple of days back, My mouse (any mouse) would move in fits and starts. It takes a split second to start moving, and when it does, it's already on the other side of the screen.

    This SEEMS to be related to oncee every second, my CPU is "Spiking"; jumping from 40 to 50% to 0-5% ever second like clockwork. I don't know if one is causing the other, just that they correlate to each other. Typing is similar effected; it'll hiccup every second or so.

    System Monitor shows nothing unsual. The majority of the resource usage is from Wayland (I'm on Manjaro), with nothing else taking up resources.

    Any advvice on what kind of reports I can run to get a sense of what'ss happening, hardware wise?

    I've rolled back the most recent update to no effect. I booted up a USB stick version, and had the same problem. So I'm sure it's a hardware issue. I tried various mice and keyboarrds, various dongles, etc... I suspect a power supply issue, but I don't want to spend the money on a new 750 watt PSU without confirming it. And the only other PSU I have in my house right now isn't powerful enough to boot all the hardware I've got installed.

    Help please. This desktop is where most oof my work is accomplished (video editing, graphic dessign and 3D modelling) which is completely impossibel with a jerky mouse.

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