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What are your favourite live musical performance video(s)?

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    • Apple has a memory problem and we're all paying for it

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  • Unfortunately, Apple's worst habits trickle down to other manufacturers who see what they manage to get away with and start taking notes.

    • What in your opinion is the worst Linux Distribution ever made?

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  • Elementary OS. People who have apparently only seen MacOS in screenshots went to a lot of trouble to copy it poorly.

    edit: I was expecting to get more than a couple of downvotes, or maybe at least one person asking me what I don't like about Elementary OS. So I preemptively downloaded the latest stable version, installed it in a VM and used it for 30 minutes or so before posting this comment. It had been a few years since I looked at it, and continues to be exactly what I have come to expect.

    This represents maybe half of the issues I came across doing really basic stuff for 30 minutes.

    When people complain about duplication of effort within the free software world, I usually don't agree. I think it's usually fine if people want to spend their time writing a whole new thing for a specific or niche use-case! But if this is where things are after (checks Wikipedia) 12 years...

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    • I got to witness a tornado in person.

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  • But was the person okay?

    • Freud Rule

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  • Mummagumma

    • How far can Lemmy support nested comments? Let's find out

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  • Thunder wonders: is that all you've got?

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  • Even literal poo disapproves.

    • What movie do you see too young, that still scares you today?

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  • Sounds like "gold standard," best libertarian-ghost pun I could come up with, without too much effort.

    • What movie do you see too young, that still scares you today?

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  • Dooooo youuuu have a moment to talk about the ghost-andard?

    • What movie do you see too young, that still scares you today?

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  • The librarian ghost in Ghostbusters is still pretty creepy, you guys.

    • The History of Microsoft Encarta

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    • The History of Microsoft Encarta

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  • I've got a dorkier story: I asked for speech dictation software.

    • What is your workflow on eBooks? Do you anotate them? Are there any open standards that are useful?

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  • I use Calibre to store and manage my library, and then serve it to KOReader clients on four devices. There are two ways to serve books from Calibre to KOReader but I prefer the "content server" approach where Calibre runs a server that I can browse from within KOReader. (The other approach, "wireless device connection," lets KOReader show up as a device you can drag-and-drop books to from within Calibre, but comes with limitations.)

    When I start a new book I manually download it to each device and let KOReader's progress sync plugin store my reading progress across devices. Highlights and bookmarks don't sync between devices, but there's cross-platform desktop software called KoHighlights that I use to merge my highlights when I'm done reading a book, then I keep the merged version on my desktop KOReader library and delete the book from my other three devices. Other options for long-term storage would be using KOHighlights to export the merged highlights to plain text, HTML, CSV or Markdown, or using KOReader's built-in functionality to export notes to a Joplin notebook (or a number of other formats). I know there's also a way to send the highlights back to Calibre, and I did get this working at some point, but I remember it either being hassle or not working well.

    KOReader also has a way of saving highlights directly into PDFs (and only PDF files, I believe), and I think this is the default, but it's something I've disabled.

    • What's the most unexpected thing you've had in your backpack at school/college?

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  • Didn't expect this one.

    • What is the device you want, but that does not exist?

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  • PineNote exists too, though it's often out of stock. Remarkable tablet has a pretty decent hacking community, and gives you its root password in settings. Kobo devices have been able to run aftermarket software for years, and recently there's been progress in booting a complete OS. If you're okay with Android there are even more choices. @crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.com you've got some options!

    • What is the best linux alternative to OneNote?

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  • This came up a few days ago in another community, and it sounds like the poster may have actually had a similar use-case to your own.

    • What is it with traitors and disloyalty 🤔

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  • bash: traitors: command not found

    • What are your hidden gem MacOS apps

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  • I had a similar sort of late-Windows phase before moving to Linux. While I don't think I knew about GeoShell, I would use shell replacements like LiteStep and various Blackbox clones. Customizing Windows and learning/comparing different UIs on the same system taught me concepts that made it an actual "light step" towards *nix. Sadly I don't have many screenshots from that time, and I've combed through boxshots to see if I posted any, but it looks like probably not. I did manage to find this one locally (probably from bbLean or bb4win):

    • Went to the movies last night and saw a movie about cheese.

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  • I'd rate this one PG (pretty gouda).