More Culture books by Banks, more Discworld by Pratchett…

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.

What if I compromise and reveal that it’s a dick that unlocks it, but not whose?

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…

I use OsmAnd+, works fine for me.

Disclaimer: I don’t often go to places I’m unfamiliar with so I don’t need directions very often, but when I do it seems to get the job done. YMMV.

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.

OpenRouter has some decently powerful free-to-use models, but I’m afraid as far as LLMs go ‘free’, ‘good’, and ‘private’ are going to be pretty mutually exclusive if you can’t run one locally.

I usually use CopyQ. Has all sorts of stuff.

I don’t know if I’d call myself a privacy pioneer but I self-host some stuff and share/trade services with a few friends.

As someone that’s been screwing around with SBCL recently, that’s pretty nifty.

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.

Nothing specific, though a quick search makes it sound like metrics-tracker might be of some use. And org-ql could probably help with sifting through data.