The last time I had to deal with Firefox-Snap on a fresh Ubuntu install, it kept crashing on launch. Grabbed a tarball and that justworks (TM). That was around a year ago. Hopefully the situation has gotten better.
Video hosting is very expensive. Not only does it consume so much disk space, it's difficult to transcode these videos. It needs a lot of CPU power or a capable iGPU/GPU which most instances probably don't have. I would love to have short videos on Lemmy but I'm hoping there are lots of available encoding options in place so we can fine tune it to fit our hardware.
For now, I think a good solution is video embedding and a better "player" for the front end. I've tried a few apps and I can watch videos from catbox.moe seamlessly with them.
Yes! Pen and paper is much more flexible compared to writing-software. It's easy to draw around or write on the margins when needed. I've tried writing with a stylus but I find it harder to use. I usually use this for class and if I have to jot down something quickly.
The only thing I don't put on paper is my todo list. Software manages that so much better than pen and paper. I also don't print out reading material anymore as it gets expensive and very bulky. I use xournalpp for annotation instead.
I only have a few games and two 500GB SSDs have been more than enough for me. My first started to fill up with ~60GB left on storage so I grabbed another.
SSDs are pretty cheap now. If you can afford larger ones, I don't see why you shouldn't grab one just in case you find yourself with a big library of games in the future.
Even on Windows I've always used a "split" desktop. Windows has pretty okay tiling features (for the drag-and-drop folks). I found it pretty efficient being able to look at two browser tab windows or having a PDF file on one side and Word/Docs on the other.
When I was venturing into Linux and found out about i3wm, I pretty much fell in love. It does the same tiling thing on Windows but better. Now I can have four windows without it feeling too cramped and it's reallly easy to move around with workspaces. I think it's really great for students and researchers.
I like the idea. I think we need more niche-interest instances like lemmy.film, lemmy.studio, literature.cafe (yours), startrek.website, ttrpg.network, slrpnk.net, ani.social (ours), etc as their respective admins understand the needs and issues of their communities better. Also we already have so many generic and tech instances to choose from.
No. It's free to use for the standard version with most features available for free. There's a paid "studio" license which unlocks all the features. Neither have their source code available for the public.
DaVinci Resolve is much better than any open source NLE. Generally, most closed source media production software is better than their open source counterparts except Blender. Blender is incredible and it gives me hope that other open source software can be just as successful in the media industry.
This is gonna be a weird share. In highschool, we had a class where we had to identify hurtful stereotypes pushed by advertisers and we used this ad. Part of the activity was to modify the ad in a way to "fix" it. Since we had no photoshop skills, we added mustaches to the women and changed some text like removing "babe-magnet" and erased "WO" so it's just "MEN". It was pretty dumb but we thought it was pretty funny.
Ubuntu. Snaps are a buggy mess. I know you can remove them but I like sane defaults. Snap drives me insane. Mint, PopOS, Debian are better choices for a stable distro.
edit: I also don't like Fedora and CentOS. The installers tend to be very buggy for me.
The last time I had to deal with Firefox-Snap on a fresh Ubuntu install, it kept crashing on launch. Grabbed a tarball and that justworks (TM). That was around a year ago. Hopefully the situation has gotten better.