southsamurai

Gods, I hate those. I won’t watch anything that does it

Really?

I just splooshed. Never have I seen a sexier lemmy comment than that.

Cixelsydm’i

Dyslexia!

Yeah, obviously, or the title wouldn’t even have happened.

And it’s been that way for a while now. Back when windows 10 happened, I was able to install mint, get most of my preferred programs set up, and handle data transfer with zero CLI use. Which was awesome, because my dyslexic ass would have taken forever otherwise. It wasn’t until I started putzing around for pop and giggles that I even opened a terminal.

My mom w as able to jump right in after installation of mint, and go through the gui to try things out, no issues.

Thanks :)

Seems like it might be at least a partial answer to my preferences

Does it use embedded lyrics or insist on using the internet?

Secondarily, does it offer any of the more useful tagging controls and library management features?

I keep looking for a Linux native player that can get close to musicbee. Haven’t found one yet, they all lack major features like batch file renaming and organization.

Are they ever going to respect embedded lyrics?

Too far gone at this point. It sucks, but every drive has an end of life. After that point, no matter how many hoops you jump through, they’re read only until they quit entirely. I think that’s where you are now, so even if there’s something in the thread that works to get it back to being able to write to it, you should consider what you get on there as read only, and maybe that only is “only once”.

Nice! Thanks for the tip!

Edit: holy removed, how have I never run across that before? That’s a brilliant program right there.

Because it isn’t doc is docx.

Publishers are pissy about such things. Even self publishing (which is what I do now), the various outlets still have limits to what they will use. Amazon accepts something like three file formats, including their own, and pdf isn’t on the list.

I could just do pdf for directly giving them away to people, but even then, epub is usually a better pick in terms of readability since that’s the standard for actual books since ereaders tend to display it better than pdfs. Most people reading books via files would be using something that can give a better experience with epub vs pdf.

Not correctly, no. Librewriter does a bit better, but still misses some bits

Man, I’ve written three novels plus assorted shorter form stories in markdown.

There’s a learning curve, but once you get going, it’s so fluid. The problem is that when it comes time to format for release, you have to convert to something else, and not every word processor can handle markdown. It’s extra work, but worth it, imo.

You pronounce it any way other than the way the person saying it does.

This results in a few possible outcomes.

The person may get an opportunity to go on at length about why their pronunciation is used, and be entertaining.

The person may get all het up about it, insisting that you’re wrong, and you can further mess with them by shrugging and continuing to use whatever you were using.

The person doesn’t care, and y’all have a nice conversation about distros and Linux in general.

The person switches to your pronunciation, and you now have a stalker.

Ahhh, gotcha!

Iirc, from what I’ve been told, the library is basically a dictionary of patterns for words.

They apparently don’t detect so much where you make movement changes as they do the overall shape of the swiping. Now, don’t bet money on that or anything, with it being second hand. But it does make sense how the swipe detection can be inconsistent.

If it was picking up transition points, it would hog more resources, but be more accurate. But having a library of patterns means it doesn’t need to detect all the movement, just the shape made, but that’s more vulnerable to minor variances causing bad detection.

And that would make sense why you’d need a library at all.

Again, the cousin that told me this is a dipremoved, so I can’t stand behind it, but it’s the answer I got. He does android development on a hobby level, but codes for a living, so he’s who I ask such things.

It lets you glide/swipe type by just moving your finger across the letters.

Have you tried the one dessalines made? It isn’t for me, but it’s a damn slick entry method.

It’s a really solid pick. My household tablet “updated” to a nee samsung one ui, and removeded my Swype from working at all (ended up getting an updated version from xda), so I was testing the open source options.

Heliboard is the only one that’s worth a damn as regards traditional keyboards. Dessalines has a thumb typing input that’s pretty cool, but it’s far from traditional (and I’m too old to relearn typing on a new system). Anything else is unmaintained, or just bad compared to the more popular swiftkey and gboard.

There’s multilingO, which is pretty customizable, but still not updated, no matter how good it is otherwise.

Makes sense, I can get how splitting feeds could get old.

There used to be an app that combined feeds, liftoff. It was awesome in that regard, you could log in to multiple accounts, and have access to all of it in one, or have it separated. It would be wicked if someone were to implement that in other apps for sure, though it wouldn’t be useful for folks using a browser.