The last time there was enough snow to honestly merit a school cancellation and allow for sledding was in 2007.
Music lover and English teacher with an interest in slightly geeky things
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The last time there was enough snow to honestly merit a school cancellation and allow for sledding was in 2007.
Still catching up on the many Switch games I’ve missed over the years. Super Mario Odyssey, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, and Metroid Prime Remastered are getting lots of play. They are all excellent. Starlink gives me motion sickness though, so I have to limit that to 20–30-minute sessions.
That might help? This is a piracy place but things that use Widevine and constantly changing. That file on your phone will only play on your phone because that app has the decryption keys. The easy apps that do this are not free apps. Screencasting and recording is something you could just start doing now.
You could also tell us the name of the video and someone here might be able to find it.
I like the idea of just recording it, because it is simple.
But, if you are beholden to doing it another way, can you tell us how you ripped the content? Did you use yt-dlp?
Whatever the case, you need separate audio and video streams. They’ll probably both be encrypted.
You’ll need something like mp4decryptor (https://github.com/axiomatic-systems/Bento4) and and widevine keyguesser thing. I haven’t done this in about 5 years, so forgive me.
There is a specific order of operations that I don’t exactly remember but you’ll need to find up-to-date instructions.
I use super boring Claws Mail for my personal email. I handle my contacts with Khard and calendars with Khal.
I don’t use a Yubikey though.
I’ve been using Linux for a long time. When I install my fist step is to uninstall. I get not wanting things taking up space.
You should be able to remove things like LibreOffice and so on without any issues.
In the past, dependency chains screwed things up depending on the distro. (Remove Chrome? Oh, well, we’ll remove your DE too! I remember once uninstalling VLC, which I never use, wanted to uninstall the browser and other media apps…)
I did go and look around, and you are right. Lots of posts, older and more recent, telling people not to uninstall and change to a minimal distro.
cmus is great for music
mpv for videos, there are different extensions to automatically open YT videos with it.
beets for sorting music
nicotine plus for looking for music
syncthing
zathura
improving performance isn’t easy if you feel like things are running smoothly, but there are a few laptop specific things like tlp that you could look into although I suspect that distro uses them out of the box
Outside of Gnome I think you may need to install an additional package like evolution-on
Already mentioned, but Strawberry is worth checking out. If Quod Libet works, stick with that. I liked it when I used it.
mpd has a number of frontends.
No longer developed I think, but I’ll mention gmusicbrowser as it used to be my go-to.
cmus is what I use now.
I also have a very large library and use Debian 12.5 so I’ll bookmark this thread for later.
Sometimes yt-dlp drops fragments leading to corrupt files, maybe that’s what’s going on.
I went through something similar with my Brother printer, but stuck with USB. I’ll have to give your tips a try later.
I haven’t been able to get 2-sided to work except with LibreOffice for some reason, but maybe that DuplexNoTumble
thing is the key…or value.
Don’t know if I have a favourite but Becky Chambers is excellent.
Debian
I’ve tried different distros and liked them, but tend to come back to Debian.
My scepticism is through the roof reading this. First, I find it hard to believe that he has two working units unless they are programmed to sit in front of a terminal and tap Y…
The rest speaks for itself: Musk likes to BS.
Well, that’s quite a lot to learn in less than 10 words!
I’ve never heard their music so I can’t say anything about their character or what they might be like, but I sure sounds like they fucked around and found out and then played the victim.
If you are geoblocked you can stream it with https://ga.pbs-video.pbs.org/videos/nova/de12ed2c-17e6-4434-a430-7f80c26a6002/2000426341/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/nova5107-AABR-AVC_793.m3u8 with mpv
See also: this thread on Mastodon https://octodon.social/@cwebber/112451933593063510
Ok. Makes sense. The video is geoblocked for me so I probably should’ve kept my mouth shut
Maybe just bad research. I haven’t tried, but I’m sure if you search for “how to protect yourself online” some of the SEO manipulating websites show up in the first results.
I just use whatever text editor I have and make MD files synced with Syncthing. On mobile I use Markor.
I’ve tried several different methods, and as much as I try to be organised, I feel pretty good with my folder of files.