I love Kdenlive, though it's always worth keeping an eye on Openshot, Olive, Shotcut etc.
Is there any scope to allow the interoperability to work with multiple software on each end (i.e. Gimp or Krita with Kdenlive or Olive) - or does it complicate things too much?
This is definitely something that's needed, so thanks for taking the initiative to start something :)
Just to note, your front page suggests darktable as an Illustrator replacement - whereas I would have said Inkscape is the Illustrator replacement (they are both vector graphic editors) and that Darktable is for processing raw digital photographs.
That looks perfect - until I saw it's £850! My current phone was about £250, which was more expensive than I wanted - but the only one that was small enough and had the dust/water/drop-off-a-ladder resistance.
Still, those S23s may be cheap in a few years when they're "old" :)
Sorry, I was unclear. I've got a pair of workshoes that fit me perfectly - so I bought 5 pairs exactly the same. When my current pair wears out in a year, I'll replace it with an identical pair.
It would be tempting to buy 5 copies of my current phone - except by the time this one breaks in 3-4 years, the innards (processor/ram/storage) will be poor in comparison to newer versions, and it may not be able to run newer versions of software.
It is a shame that no company is saying "lets keep it basically the same on the outside, but improve the internal specs" - they tend to do things like making it bigger, removing headphone ports, removing other physical buttons, or making it thinner but giving it a rubbish battery that's nonreplaceable.
I used Thinkpad as a comparison, as you can still buy an older model of Thinkpad and pack it with newer innards - so buy the older model with the case you like, but refurbished with more ram, a better processor etc.
If you put my 2 year old Thinkpad laptop next to my old one, they look pretty much the same, except the new one is thinner and much lighter - they still both have physical touchpad buttons, the trackpoint, lots of ports down both sides. I can still use my older laptop bag, because they're nominally the same size and shape.
I wish some phone models followed a similar process - "here's the same thing you already have, but better".
I would absolutely love a barebones, tiny, configurable Raspberry Pi of phones.
If it were shoes I'd say "just get ten sets of what's the right size", but the problem with tech is we're still going to want more ram, more storage etc.
Like who is going to keep all the buttons, ports, dimensions and connectivity, whilst upgrading the innards?
My phone is about 15cm (5¾ in) tall, and to me, that's the absolute maximum. It's slightly too big. The width, about 7cm (2¾ in) is totally fine.
This (Galaxy XCover 5) was the smallest phone that seemed to exist (and I wanted one woth durability, removable battery, SD slot, headphones etc). It was very expensive though.
Trying to find cheaper ones for various people in the extended family, they all specified "oh, not bigger than my current one", but it was impossible. There's basically nothing less than 16cm tall, and most are even bigger.
I'm scared of this one breaking. The XCover 6 is 17cm x 8cm.
I get what you mean, like there's definitely some stuff you can just look at a picture of it on the internet, but I guess for others it's about the sense of space, connection, grouping, narrative, context etc that's present with a well put together Museum or Gallery display.
Without all that, you've just got a car boot sale of random things - wheras the text, maps, illustrations, audio, video or 3d recreations etc that sits alongside - or simply the placement of things next to one another, or following through the room in a particular order is what really makes that stuff interesting.
This is brilliant, and I say that as a man who once dreamt I had an L-shaped piece of metal that stopped bats getting into drawers (and removed existing bats from drawers).
I struggled massively with the abstract nature of maths at school for several years - oddly, it was our art lessons that fixed it all in my case.
We started looking at (and practicing doing) geometric abstract painting, and suddenly all the maths abstraction made sense when I could think of it visually. Changed me from a "D" student to an "A" student.
Use maths all the time at work and in life these days. Love a bit of maths - thanks to our art teachers :)
Yeah, there's plenty of car and van rental places - but yes, you need a driving licence for it.
Note that I'm probably in the minority not being able to drive - I think almost half of the people I know have cars and licences these days - and that would be a far higher number in a more rural or wealthier area.
I know you can take them to the recycling centre, but I don't have a car, so I just hoard them in a room in my house.
Depending on the item, I sometimes hoard it in a different room, where I can fix it or dismantle it for useful components, if I ever had the time or inclination to do so.
Fortunately though, once a year, our local council does a "put it on the street and we'll take it" day, and they come and collect things and take them to the right place.
Yeah, I tried looking to see if there were other Blitz3d games with Wine reports etc, but found nothing useful so far. I feel like it's done this text thing for a few years, but the game is a little too obscure to find a solution for.
I definitely used to run this on Wine (probably through Playonlinux) many years back, but I can't remember if text ever looked fine, or if I just put up with it.
Anyway, tried it on my newer laptop just now and it shows up the same as yours. I think it's the antialiasing (or shadow?) which is showing up solid white that is making it hard to read. I tried installing a fairly random selection of "winetricks" type things, but none made any difference.
You can slightly increase legibility by swapping the font - you can stick another font in the root folder renamed as "Comic Book Normal.ttf" and it'll replace it - but it doesn't solve the issue.
If you (or anyone) does solve it, it'd be good to know what the solution is.
p.s. I've got that menu song stuck in my head now.
These are brilliant. Thanks for the link :)