I use youtube less and less because it’s not as information dense as other sources. When I do brave YT, I have a simple css override via stylus to hide thumbnails. It has helped reduce that sad feeling about the human spirit YT leaves me with.
The stylus snippet:
ytd-thumbnail {
background-color: #000000 !important;
display: none;
}
I’m confident Autodesk wouldn’t have introduced indie pricing if it weren’t for Blender’s rise in popularity. Competition is good for everyone (except a company like Autodesk trying to get the highest returns for the least effort).
Autodesk Maya. Autodesk being the company, Maya the software. I disagree with the framing that Blender needs to develop (more) new tools [for the purpose of] competing. Maya is industry standard in animation mostly due to monopolistic practices (EG: purchasing competitors), not innovation or development. Blender needs more money to develop more tools. Full stop. Many professionals have been disappointed with Autodesk’s offerings and development, and look to Blender for innovation.
Thanks for the reply and info! I’m excited to hear links are being considered. I’ll keep an eye on it. Best of luck!
Kudos on the release! And respect for using codeberg.
I’m always on the lookout for a FOSS replacement to my biggest proprietary dependency, Obsidian (some exist, but too many tradeoffs so far). I didn’t see any mention of wiki-style links, is that out of scope? I imagine the encryption makes it complicated.
Also, on the dev side, how has your experience with Tauri been? Have you tinkered with any other rust frameworks? How have you found their documentation?
requires terminal skills to deal with most things
Have you actually used linux? Terminal is optional. Most linux users use it because it’s rad, not because it’s necessary.
Digging through the registry or searching ad laden websites to find where a new setting or old menu is buried is more time consuming than typing man <command> or tldr <command>. The latter is to improve my system and the former to prevent a private company from making it worse.
Came here to say this. Also
OpenDyslexic as an alternative font
Respect. Congrats to OP on launching. Will take a peak when I get the chance.
infuencers are just rebranded shills
Yeah. My partner later said it was almost a deal breaker when I first told her.
I’m a fan of most of the movies listed, but didn’t notice anyone mention one of my favorites, Moneyball. Don’t let the baseball fool you. I don’t even like baseball. To me it’s not about baseball, it’s about trying to succeed in a flawed system.
Never have I ever read a single book or watched a single movie of the Harry Potter series.
I have used inkscape for this purpose and it can be effective. The display units can be changed in the preferences (inch, cm, etc) and basic shape dimensions input directly. You can input absolute position for shapes and nodes, but I didn’t notice an easy way for relative position. They also have a path effect called “Measure Segments” for that functionality. FWIW, I later preferred blender, but I might try a dedicated tool like LibreCAD mentioned in another comment. They seem to have decent documentation and a wiki.
Yup! Migrated from VSCodium; wanted to learn a modal editor but didn’t have the time or confidence to configure vim or neovim. It’s been my go-to editor for 2+ years now.
I went a little overboard and wrote a one-liner to accurately answer this question
history|cut -d " " -f 5|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -5
Note: history displays like this for me
20622 2023-02-18 16:41:23 ls
I don’t know if that’s because I set HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' in .bashrc, or if it’s like that for everyone.
If it’s different for you change -f 5 to target the command. Use -f 5-7 to include flags and arguments.
My top 5 (since last install)
2002 ls
1296 cd
455 hx
427 g
316 find
g is an alias for gitui. When I include flags and arguments most of the top commands are aliases, often shortcuts to a project directory.
Not to ramble, but after doing this I figured I should alias the longest, most-used commands (even aliasing ls to l could have saved 2002 keystrokes :P) So I wrote another one-liner to check for available single characters to alias with:
for c in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do [[ ! $(command -v $c) ]] && echo $c; done
In .bash_aliases I’ve added alias b='hx ${HOME}/.bash_aliases' to quickly edit aliases and alias r='source ${HOME}/.bashrc' to reload them.
💯 There’s more software, games, movies, music, people, etc than I’ll ever be able to interact with in my entire life. So much good to be found when you don’t waste time on all the extractive, disrespectful, enshittified BS. Edit: dropped word.
Happy to see it get love and spread the word. alternativeto.net is my go to. Worthy of muscle memory. I’ve also found great options in the awesome lists on github. Especially awesome self-hosted if we’re talking software. I thought I remember an alternativeto-like site geared towards cli, but I couldn’t find it last time I looked. LMK if that rings a bell for anyone.
I had a similar change of heart years ago, watching a docu-series on PBS and realizing I wanted more of that content in the world. Even though you can stream PBS for about $5 a month, I canceled Netflix so I could pay PBS $20 a month to start making up for all the time my money was flowing in the wrong direction.
We’re likely to get more of the things we invest in, and less of the things we don’t. That investment includes attention in ad-driven market, not only money.
I know I’m not the first person on lemmy to have this realization, it’s one of the many reasons I like it here.
I’ve had audio sync issues on kodi myself-- specifically osmc on Vero V which is optimized for playback. I tried checking my notes, because it was some time ago. Nothing definitive, but it may have been related to a random crashing issue that turned out to be a bad hdmi port-- which was the last thing I considered checking after triple checking everything else. Anyway, good luck with the troubleshooting. Audio sync issues are a pain but I can also attest yt-dlp has been solid.
I’ve enjoyed Zim in the past but not being able to access it on mobile caused me to migrate. Do you have a way to access your notes on the go?
I respectfully disagree. While true that Houdini was one of the first visual effects softwares offering an indie license, it was by no means the only one. Substance comes to mind, before the Adobe acquisition.
The timeline is also unconvincing: a considerable number of years elapsed after Houdini entered the market and Autodesk/Maya offered an indie license. However, is does coincide with better blender documentation and rise in YT content that rapidly grew the blender community.
Houdini can do more than FX, sure, and I’ve consistently heard nothing but good things, but its professional use remains relatively [edit: departmentally] niche. So, it may seem to someone in the niche of FX that Maya is losing ground to Houdini, but on a macro level Blender has the features and price point to threaten a larger portion of Autodesk/Maya’s market share. In lieu of better data, I’ll refer to google trends of the three softwares in which Houdini is a flat line at the bottom. I will gladly consider data to the contrary if you have it.
Either way, my main point was that competition is good, and who is responsible for how much doesn’t change that.