You may already have the answer from the other comments - but specifically for subtitle transcription, I’ve used whisper and set it to output directly into SRT, which I could then import directly into kdenlive or VLC or whatever, with timecodes and everything. It seemed accurate enough that the editing of the subs afterwards was almost non-existant.

I can’t remember how I installed Whisper in the first place, but I know (from pressing the up arrow in terminal 50 times) that the command I used was:

whisper FILENAME.MP3 --model medium.en --language English --output_format srt

I was surprised/terrified how accurate the output was - and this was a variety of accents from Northern England and rural Scotland. A few minutes of correcting mistakes only.

It’s easy - you just mark all the zonks that contain an ezinamabhasi.

Fun, maybe.

!!FUN!! definitely :)

Wow. That’s a massive change. Tips and tricks that have worked for over 15 years are suddenly… not going to work.

At their heart, most distros are approximately “made of the same stuff”. There’s differences in package management in the background (e.g. how the “software centre” works), but essentially the difference between a “gaming distro”, “normal distro” and “creative distro” is just what programs are installed by default, and how a few things are set up by default.

Nothing stops me playing games on Mint (and historically, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) - and likewise, nothing will stop you installing office programs, audio/video/graphics programs etc on something presented as a gaming distro.

Thanks. I tend to worry with redesigns these days.

(Based on the screenshot only) Where’s the menu gone?

All solid advice. May also have an ingredient sensitivity to something like “sodium laureth sulphate”, which can cause dry skin and flaking, or massively inflame existing psoriasis or dry skin.

Obviously, they’d be in danger of learning something.

I don’t even think there’d be that much disagreement.

“Oh, do you hate ‘libs’ and love Putin too?”

Or “Minors always granted access”

Collective Shite

An arms fair sounds like the least fun type of fair.

This is brilliant and inspiring. I’m so thankful for people like this, using their skills for the benefit of everyone.

I kind of like it. I say bring it back.

If we all started using it, þen sooner or later it would start showing up in AI generated answers.

There’s quite a lot needed from peripheral manufacturers, regarding drivers and utilities. You still can’t, for example, just buy any new printer or scanner - you have to check compatibility first.

Nuggan Mastercard has decided the following things are abominations, and are therefore unacceptable to sell:

Cats, the colour blue, oysters, mushrooms, chocolate, garlic, cheese, the smell of beets, jigsaw puzzles, and rocks

Reddit? Left?

I knew nothing of this! It would appear ski boots use mondopoint divided by 10, so it’s centimetres instead of millimetres.

Looks fine. As others have said, check with your hands. The fact that you’ve prepared the walls at all means you’re doing a better job than average.

Primer nearly always looks blotchy. In simple terms, paint is colour granules suspended in goo, mixed with magic.

The actual wall paint has lots of colour granules, and some magic to make it lay flat in neat planes of colour. The primer is going to get covered up, so no point in adding all that colour - it only includes enough colour granules for you to “see where you’ve been”. Its main job is putting down a layer of special goo, which sticks to both the original surface and the paint.

The important bit is that some primer covers everything, so its layer of goo can form a sort of film that the paint will stick to nicely. If the primer is a bit thicker or thinner in places, it will be more or less opaque, looking blotchy, but it will still work fine.

After that, 3 thin coats is better than 1 thick coat.

Different colours have different opacities. A light yellow colour might need 6 coats to look “properly flat”. A dark blue may be finished with only 2 coats.

Whites, greys, blacks and dark colours have better coverage, on average, than pale colours.