Thanks, yeah I think so. At least, I’ve followed all the steps outlined here https://rpmfusion.org/Howto/Multimedia but VLC and gstreamer apps continue to tell me that I’m missing codecs. I am stumped, but happy that at least Jellyfin plays everything.

I somehow keep running across videos that won’t load in Clapper, Showtime, mpv, VLC, or Handbrake, and Nautilus won’t show thumbnails for them. It’s very frustrating. Supposedly I’ve already installed all the available codecs from RPMFusion, but still get the “codec missing” error on a bunch of videos.

Jellyfin on the other hand, it plays everything I’ve ever thrown at it. I don’t know what the hell it’s doing differently from the other video players on my system, but it works great.

Are you able to recommend any shows or movies that portray Egypt and your culture well?

We Americans don’t get a lot of exposure to Egypt much outside of media like Indiana Jones or Moon Knight (which, despite having scenes set in Cairo, wasn’t filmed in Egypt as far as I know).

Because you’re the account who posted what I’m responding to.

You didn’t make any substantive critiques about the journalism, so why would anyone be responding to that? All you’ve said is that you “don’t care about ffmpeg”, which is dismissive of the software itself, so yeah obviously people are going to be responding about the software.

Yes, this happens all the time to me. I think it’s a relatively common thing for autists to emote differently, and I’m autistic, so I guess it makes sense for me. People who know me well can definitely detect my smiles though, so that’s nice. I’ve been trying to get used to overcompensating for strangers to make sure they see my expressions, and I just hope that it doesn’t end up looking too uncanny valley.

Calibre will work for this, but it almost certainly won’t give a good result. That’s not Calibre’s fault; Adobe InDesign produces exactly the same horrible output from a PDF. It’s just a reality that PDF does not lend itself gracefully to being converted easily to a well behaved EPUB.

Unless you are converting something extremely simple with no inline images or interesting text layout, getting a nice EPUB will almost definitely be a tedious process of fiddling directly with the HTML and CSS with something like Sigil (or Calibre, but it’s not as nice).

I last left this morning for work. The last I left for my own enjoyment was last weekend for the Pride parade. (State of GA in the USA celebrates in October for some reason.)

(I tried to spoiler this bottom part since you didn’t ask for advice, but I guess I don’t know how. Sorry.)

I suffer from chronic depression, so I might know something of what you’re going through. Hang in there, friend. It gets better, eventually.

Also, I know this probably sounds ridiculous (it does to me when I remind myself of it while depressed, especially since I’m also autistic and antisocial) but the safety of home makes depression worse for me. It’s the last thing that I want to do while depressed, but it really does help tremendously to get out and do something. Anything. Go to the grocery store and buy a ramen or whatever, it doesn’t matter. Go through the human line to checkout so that you have to interact with a person in some capacity. It’s silly, but it does help me a tiny bit.

The next day, try to do it again, it helps a tiny bit again. Eventually all the tiny little bits add up, maybe, but even if they don’t then at least it’s a tiny bit better all along.

Because of investors needing a quick “win” with a game studio acquisition, and because gamers buy the slop that someone managed to shit out while trying to appease those investors.

The investors cash out and are emboldened to go burn some other game studio into the ground again. If the studio hasn’t imploded badly enough yet, the investors demand another game with whatever IP “worked” last time, but at a lesser budget with more aggressive deadlines, so the next result that is shit out is worse, but players still buy it.

The cycle continues endlessly, it’s the same pattern in every industry because it’s all the same tiny group of investors with “diversified portfolios” ruining everything in the name of profit.

I have been using Bazarr for that, it works well. Pretty much just set it and forget it, and subtitles are just… there.

Intelligence is a difficult thing to measure, especially merely by interacting with a person for a little while.

Many of the answers in this thread amount to privileged assumptions that fail to account for the fact that what they describe as signs of lacking intelligence could also be symptoms of exhaustion and alienation inherent to conditions such as living under a capitalist system and/or neurodiversity and/or disability and/or sickness and/or…

For example, when someone works 16 hours a day for 5/6 days a week, they are far less likely to have the energy for using their little free time away from work to ponder deep questions at the same level as someone privileged enough to have a less demanding existence. This is not correlated with their intelligence in any way.

How can you seriously assert that people are using the term too lightly when you apparently don’t even know why they’re saying it?

Could you define the words “fascist” and “communist” as you understand them?

Hmm, fair enough. I was just going off the dictionary definition of parasite which I suppose isn’t the medical definition.

If there aren’t any symptoms, then how is it a parasite? The presence of harmful symptoms is kind of central to the very definition of a parasite.

The contractors would merely need to use/develop open source software if they want their cushy government contracts. Seems doable to me.

Incompatible with every website in which browser? It works for years in both Chrome and Firefox. Is this a meme for Safari users only?

The fact that Google invented this format is the most annoying thing about webp, but the complaints in this image haven’t been an issue for a very long time in my experience.

Aha oops I edited at the same time as your reply! Thanks for the elaboration, that’s helpful!

What does “ssd” mean in this context? I’m guessing it’s not solid state drive since that doesn’t make any sense in these sentences, but searching that acronym isn’t very helpful.

Edit: I guess it means “server side decorations”. I see that OP did use the full phrase once, but it didn’t click with me initially. Wikipedia says that means the window manager draws titlebar buttons, as opposed to client side decorations which enables the app developer to control the titlebar of their app.

I’ve had many many conversions where I’ve tried to get people to define what romance means, and so far nobody has a satisfying answer. It seems like everyone thinks it should just be obvious what is meant by that word, and can’t or won’t pin it down in a way that describes what’s unique about that kind of love compared to other kinds of love.

The dictionary definitions are also highly circular. It’s like, romance is “the desire to be in romantic relationships”, and romantic relationships are “oriented towards expressions of romance” and so on.

I’ve started to suspect that the very fact that I’m unable to determine what romance even means is a hint that I’m probably aromantic. It’s a very strange thing though… how can I call myself a word that means “not romantic” when I don’t even know what it is that I’m not?