More Culture books by Banks, more Discworld by Pratchett…

Yay for lowercase dragons. 😁

I figured it’d taker longer to get to the Manna stage of things, but here we are…

Just chill out and talk. If you don’t get stuff, ask. Decent people will explain stuff to you, especially if they know you legitimately struggle with it.

I might actually, I have someone dropping by a spare laptop they don’t want in a few weeks and I was going to toss xubuntu on it kind of by default, but maybe not.

I keep getting the urge to try an immutable distro…

Nope. Terrible signal/noise ratio. My video watching is mostly peertube and YT when I can’t find something elsewhere.

Never stop learning.

Yup. He wasn’t very attractive (but not ugly either), but was very good at talking to people. Manipulating them and playing them off on one another, delivering just the right amount of praise or scorn at the right time. Complete narcissistic asshole if you knew him well. Not to mention really racist.

I usually use CopyQ. Has all sorts of stuff.

Hm. I stand corrected. I could swear it did both ways.

I’ve had some trouble with PDFs that were just images of pages of text (easy way to tell, assuming you’re on linux, is run pdftotext on it and see if you get anything). There’s a utility called pdfsandwich that will use Tesseract to OCR the images and add text to the PDF.

That might help too.

Yeeeah to get nice results you have to do a fair bit of tinkering. Almost never worth it unless PDF is the only thing you can get.

I just checked and tested it, works for me. Is there anything unusual about the PDF?

Calibre should be able to convert from one to the other. Pandoc as well if you prefer CLI things.

If you accept data that’s updated in realtime but not being actively sampled in realtime, this satellite tracker?

I wish I could say I didn’t, but I knew who he was and what sorts of things he said.

Escape velocity.

This. I usually use MMDDYYYY when I’m dealing with other (US) people and ISO standard for my own stuff.

Valentina. Not very hot, but I like it and use it like ketchup.