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BlindFrog

@ BlindFrog @lemmy.world

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  • Off by one solitude

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  • IS THIS Love Advice From the Great Duke of Hell??

    (it's a webcomic, I loved the story)

  • [DISC] Spy x Family - Mission 105

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  • I deadass thought the potential date partner was a spy trying to sniff out Franky. It's something about how the eyes were drawn, but I just can't put my finger on it

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  • Onion worthy

  • "REM sleep is the next AI"

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  • PROFESSOR HELPER HERE! READY TO HELP!

  • What's your favorite underrated manga?

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  • Mieruko-Chan, or Girl who can see it

    It's a comedy/slice of life (imo) with horror aspects. A girl is suddenly able to see spirits/ghosts one day, and tries her best to pretend she doesn't see them. I love it because each arc and Mieruko's intentions are so wholesome & end in building way more on spirits' rules and lore. The first few chapters do play on echi themes, but the author finds his footing for a plot once the first antagonist appears. Antagonist is not the right word, but I don't want to spoil character development details much. :x

  • So technical question...

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  • I can see future archeologists (god forbid, Ai archeologists) digging up old posts like this and going, "tf, this was upvoted? Interjecting with too much tangential information? The tone came off rude though?" and not get the reference if they weren't versed in linux community culture already

  • Down with under-screen fingerprint sensors!

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  • Samesies. I had a huge nexus 6p back in the day, and I miss scrolling by swiping the rear fingerprint sensor.

  • Mint (noob) default apps with wine

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  • TLDR, scroll down to the script. Make a .sh file, allow it to run as a program, set it as your default program to open whatever filetype

    Navigate to the appropriate/your favorite folder to store portable applications. Make the below script as a new file called WhateverYouWant.shFellow newbies, the .sh is important.Then set this .sh file's permissions to allow executing this file as a Program; may differ by distro.

    #!/bin/bash

    # Script to set a windows application (that runs through WINE) as the default to open PDF files:

    # PURPOSE: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style# to pass as an argument to wine when starting PDF XChange ViewerFilename="z:"${1//\//\\}

    # Assuming you use the default installation folder for PDF# XChange Viewer in WineApp='eval wine "C:\Program Files\Filepath\To\Your\PDFXEdit.exe" "'$Filename'"'$App

    # Adapted originally from:# http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/# Archive.org'd at: \https://web.archive.org/web/20160918205551/http://sodeve.net/2007/12/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/# Additional credit in 2024:# https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=153092# https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210206/http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=173574#p173574# https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210203/http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/

    You can also check the appropriate windows-formatted filepath with Winetricks, using its built in windows File Explorer, finding your .exe, and copying the path starting from "C:.[Edit: the default install folder in the script would normally be C:\Program Files my bad. I downloaded the portable version and shoved it wherever, so my filepath looks like "C:\users\Froggy\Documents\PDFXchange test01\PDFXEdit.exe"]

    Mint Cinnamon 21:

    • right click your shell script file, Properties > Permissions > check on "Allow executing file as program".
    • Then find a PDF file (or whatever filetype), right click, Open With > 'Other Application...' > browse for this .sh file you just made.
    • After selecting this .sh file, be sure to select "Set as default" before clicking OK.

    I could not tell you for the life of me why this didn't work with a .desktop file on Mint 21.

    I spent the past few hours down the wrong rabbit holes with .desktop and exec=wine 'filepaths' and just about died of asphyxiation from absolutely nothing happening. I've been wanting to do the same thing too for a while, but decided that right before bedtime was the perfect time to look it up.[Edit: I figured out spacing in the script. Also moved the Mint specific instructions down the comment for flow clarity]

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  • What's a PPA, and, if it's alright to ask, which things did you need to downgrade or remove before upgrading mint?

    I'm still on mint cinnamon 21, saving up for a beefier drive to back up to before I would upgrade.

  • Harris donations top $100m after Biden's exit from presidential race

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  • A statement (and update) from the founder of Kirei Cake

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  • Thank you for sharing their message

  • YouTube looks to be testing server-side ad injection to counter ad blockers

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  • Good idea. 1.2x speed is how I save time on videos I expect to be long

  • Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again

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  • Zotify?

  • After mice drink raw H5N1 milk, bird flu virus riddles their organs

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  • US based here. Saaaame, I didn't like Planet. I get Plant Folk oatmilk from Sam's club, and I now detest anything more thick or savory than that. If anything, Plant Folk's a little watery compared to most oat milks I tried locally.

  • Databases and their real world use examples

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  • I just bought the book off Nostarchpress last month

  • Woman killed by her two XL bully dogs at home in east London

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  • I have a head canon now about your username origin that you, at least once in your life, had to face a horribly distempered ceiling fan, but just don't remember it because of the capitation.

  • you don't need more 4GB of RAM

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  • "Simple Tab Groups" extension for Firefox desktop allowed me to evolve from constantly rearranging/bookmarking ~20 shrinking tabs in a window and dropping projects; to hoarding 30-40 tabs worth of research material and unfinished project ideas in rotating groups

  • I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

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  • Seconding Linux Mint!

    I came to linux because I was building a new pc at the time win11 came out, and I saw how much more like apple it looked.

    I wasn't afraid to try linux because I'd already done some easy mods to my steam deck (decky and retropi). Using the steam deck's computer desktop was almost like using older windows to me; I appreciated that.

    Downloading programs was like android to me; using the system's app store, or sideload an app or a second app store, or follow the dev's readme.txt. Easy, fun, free, ad-free.

    I downloaded different linux distributions to a bunch of spare thumb drives and tried them one at a time. I figured, the moment I had a problem that lasted more than an hour with one distro, I'd move on to the next. If I couldn't hack it past four tries, I'm going back to windows 10.

    Linux Mint was the second attempt, and it's pretty intuitive to use, imo. It feels like the ease of using android, but with a desktop and my beloved windows-style taskbar.

  • A storybook designed to teach kids about how computers work

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  • I read your comment before I could open the link, and now that I'd read a little past the chat-format part into chapter two, this spawn definitely smells of AI spunk. My nagging feeling reading it was - Iiiii'm pretty sure this author's never tried to teach before.

    First giveaway for me was the sudden change in artstyles for the "projected slides". Also, for the first cat pic, why tf is there a bending-protected cord dangling from a wall switch? Tf?

    So many adjectives used too, I bet, to give that futuristic feel, but overused, unnecessary. What the fuck is clear carbon fiber? No really, is that even real? And why do you need to describe people's desks or seats that way, when it would've been more effective to make a picture of the classroom than to detract from the learning material with a mystery virus that took out the professor just to needlessly bring in a sub? Was there going to be some plot twist? Is there a story?

    And who tf thought that starting with binary was a great idea to introduce kids to computers/programming? Who tf thinks they'd convince someone who knows nothing about computers that binary is cool or even immediately useful?

    I scrolled further and saw Darth Vader fighting Luke Skywalker. End rant, or else AI will give me cancer.

    Scam author is trying to scam people with AI generated book.