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IrritableOcelot

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IrritableOcelot ,

I've tried to use scribus, but the interface is pretty clunky and it doesnt react well to high-dpi screens in my experience.

IrritableOcelot ,

I'm curious about what you think is missing from Inkscape. I use it and illustrator for design work all the time, and I've never run into issues with something missing from Inkscape.

IrritableOcelot ,

Open board is unmaintained, heliboard is the fork, and has added some great features IMO.

IrritableOcelot ,

All kobos use a custom OS built on Android...8 (lol). Its not recognizable as Android, but it is the base.

IrritableOcelot ,

That's true, but I get easily more than that on my current kobo, which has a similar advertised battery life. I can get easily 5-6 days of reading 8h a day on it.

IrritableOcelot ,

No, I forget where exactly it was, but at some point last year I was deep in Rakuten's documentation and it referenced that the Clara HD's OS is based on a modified Android 8 kernel.

IrritableOcelot ,

It's possible that there's a reason it requires lossless audio, in that it requires uncompressed signal to work. For instance, if the ML model is trained on uncompressed data, it may need audio which has never been compressed.

IrritableOcelot ,

I can only assume they're trying to talk about concrete 3D printing, but oh boy is that not ready for anything which needs strength.

IrritableOcelot ,

Oh it should be roughly equivalent. But really, what besides a slab can you build without worrying about tension?

IrritableOcelot ,

Do you really think you could build a tower without tensile reinforcement? The hoop stress on the base of a cylindrical tower is no joke, especially when made from something as dense as concrete...

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

IrritableOcelot ,

Man, I tried to learn FreeCAD, but coming from the Inventor/Solidworks paradigm it was hard.

IrritableOcelot ,

Just a comment -- for InDesign-type work, I find something like Inkscape (or Scribus) easier to work with than LaTeX. I usually only use LaTeX for things where the layout needs to be pretty but not customized. Its possible to use it for design, but not a good use of time.

Is there anything unsavory about ProtonMail?

For some reason I have it in the back of my mind that they were at one point accused of being a honeypot for US intelligence because of their association with MIT. Probably complete BS, but maybe not. Are they as open source as they claim to be? Looks like they're on github. F-Droid seems to think they have some Google libraries...

IrritableOcelot ,

Yeah I remember that conspiracy theory. Iirc, the claim was basically that any company which had any relationship with any US institution must be a honeypot. It was pretty out there, and as far as I'm aware it was very much debunked.

I'm pretty sure that the Google libraries F-droid are things like the push notification service, which afaik almost anything with notifications uses, even signal.

I've never actually compiled from source, but AFAIK they are open source. Its been convenient to use for me, just make very sure you don't lose your password!

IrritableOcelot ,

That looks just enough not like comic sans to actually be pretty good.

IrritableOcelot ,

If you're OK with using inkscape and GIMP, if the background color is different than the chicken, you could apply a color filter to simplify the image to "chicken" and "not chicken" (basically, reduce the number of total colors to 16 or less), then use inkscape Trace Bitmap in Colors mode.

Tracing a bitmap to an SVG is really only practical if it's a line drawing or if it has less than 16 (preferably less than 8) colors, because each color becomes a different vector object. Its really not intended for full on photos, unfortunately.

IrritableOcelot ,

They're ways to search on a specific site from the engine's search bar. For instance, !gsch cows will search for cows on google scholar from DuckDuckGo. I don't know how stamdardized bangs are across engines, but they're super useful if you use a bunch of obscure search tools on the day to day.

IrritableOcelot ,

Looks like it from the readme!

Scribus Gets Huge Update (but the toolbar buttons are still too small to see!) (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

I want to like Scribus, but every time I hear about it getting updated, I download it, open it, only to find these tiny toolbar icons that have no apparent way of being made bigger. This is always what prevents me from trying it out! Seems like kind of a basic design no-brainer. Grrr. Does anyone else have this problem? I'm on...

IrritableOcelot ,

This is my exact situation! It's not just uncomfortably small, either -- it's flat out unusable. I think its a hiDPI issue, but from the forum posts it sounds like its been an issue for 5-6 years. I even tried changing the QT startup settings, but no luck.

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