afaik you just listed features that the printer I mentioned (or if I am wrong, other similar printers) supports
it’s my bad for not mentioning all possible workflows, I was just a bit lazy and thinking of my personal documents only, which do not work well with further smart automation, because my batches are highly irregular. So the more manual approach is the best for me currently. Maybe possible with some future AI integration.
please elaborate
Epson WorkForce DS‑730N
put 100 sheets on the tray, it scans them all and either puts them all into a single pdf or multiple pdfs. Then you split / merge them in software.
You could buy an automatic scanner that takes a stack of docs and dumps the files to a network share.
Thats very interesting.
Do you maybe know if your gnome system was using x11 and your kde one is using wayland? Wayland might be a bit stricter when it comes to following specs and not implementing hacky workarounds. (or it could always be a bug)
Oh and if you do try out other cables, give us an update. I’m curious if it will work.
The stuff you describe sounds like a cable timing issue. Not something you can fix in Linux. Think of it like the two devices trying to talk to each other on different frequencies and picking the highest res one that works. (so thats why they might get stuck on a random smaller one)
I had some examples like that in the past where some low quality or very long cables couldn’t reach it’s spec, even fresh out of the box, even on windows.
Oh, also I am pretty sure HDMI 1.3 does not do 4k at all. Either 1080 or 1440p was the spec limit.
If you can space the money for an experiment try an active DP 1.2 → HDMI 2.0 cable/adapter.
Maybe something like https://www.delock.com/produkt/85956/merkmale.html or Digitus branded. Depending on what known good cable manufacturer is available in your area.
You can mostly just copy your home partition/dir with something like rsync.
Step by step:
Install new distro, in the installer make sure to use the same username (otherwise there is some extra work involved but still doable)
start up new distro to make sure it works
reboot into old distro or into live linux
use rsync to copy olddistro/home/user to newdistro/home/user (you have to think about whether it makes sense to overwrite all files or if there is maybe some special exception somehow. Like there may be some idiomatic bashrc on one distro that does not work well with the other)
(I’ve done that multiple times now and there is some minor fixing involved sometimes, like with the bashrc example, but otherwise it’s super easy. If you ever get stuck just hit me up and I can hop on a Rustdesk/discord/whatever support session)
I’ll run with you wherever you want to run.
Maybe syspatch, maybe vienna, some other city, idk. it’s up to you tbh.
for me even typing “sudo pacman -Syu” is masochism compared to just pressing the “Update” button in the gui package manager.
I super agree. I try to do as much as possible on Linux via GUI because I can remember where a button is, but I can’t remember all the flags and parameter quirks of each command.
I just enjoy looking shit up for strangers on the internet and being a smartass …
# CUT (fast, keyframe-aligned, no re-encode)
ffmpeg -ss 00:01:30 -to 00:02:10 -i input.mp4 -c copy cut.mp4
# CUT (accurate, re-encode)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -ss 00:01:30 -to 00:02:10 -c:v libx264 -c:a aac cut.mp4
# MERGE / CONCATENATE (same codecs, no re-encode)
printf "file 'a.mp4'\nfile 'b.mp4'\n" > list.txt
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i list.txt -c copy merged.mp4
# MERGE (different formats, re-encode)
ffmpeg -i a.mp4 -i b.mp4 -filter_complex \
"[0:v][0:a][1:v][1:a]concat=n=2:v=1:a=1[v][a]" \
-map "[v]" -map "[a]" merged.mp4
# TRANSITION (video crossfade, keep audio from first clip)
ffmpeg -i a.mp4 -i b.mp4 -filter_complex \
"[0:v][1:v]xfade=transition=fade:duration=1:offset=4[v]" \
-map "[v]" -map 0:a transition.mp4
# ADD TEXT (overlay)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf \
"drawtext=text='Hello world':x=20:y=20:fontsize=32:fontcolor=white" \
-c:a copy text.mp4
# ADD AUDIO TRACK (replace existing audio)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i music.mp3 \
-map 0:v -map 1:a -c:v copy -shortest out.mp4
# ADD AUDIO TRACK (mix with existing audio)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -i music.mp3 -filter_complex \
"[0:a][1:a]amix=inputs=2:duration=shortest[a]" \
-map 0:v -map "[a]" out.mp4
# CHANGE SPEED (2x video, drop audio)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "setpts=0.5*PTS" -an fast.mp4
# SCALE / RESIZE
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf scale=1280:720 resized.mp4
# SUBTITLES (burn in)
ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf subtitles=subs.srt out.mp4
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At massive scale, indexing is done by distributing the data rather than relying on a single machine. The index is split into shards, each holding a subset of the data, commonly partitioned by hashing IDs or dividing term ranges. Every shard is replicated to multiple machines so reads can be load-balanced and failures do not take the system down.
Search queries are handled by a coordinator that sends the query to the relevant shards in parallel, collects their partial results, merges and ranks them, and returns the final result. Because all shards work at the same time, query latency depends on the slowest shard, not on total index size.
This setup is built on search engines based on inverted indexes, usually derived from Lucene, either via systems like Elasticsearch or via custom implementations. Metadata and related data are stored in distributed databases or key-value stores, while index updates are streamed asynchronously so writes do not block reads. Caching at multiple layers keeps frequently accessed data in memory, and the whole system runs on large clusters that automatically handle placement, scaling, and failures.
idk where you are, but where I live anybody can go to the university lectures for free, as long as they are not full. Or the library and browse the relevant section. Personally I learned everything IT related from uni courses and searching for my topics of interest in the uni lib. So thats my shitty recomendation, I’m sure there are online resources and courses on it though.
hard disagree, it depends on where you live.
Which is at the current stage of globalism mostly a personal choise. I have friends that got here by hitchhiking on a container ship by asking the crew nicely and other who literally walked here for half a year, begging for food along the way.
I moved countries with nothing but my documents and a backpack full of clothes. And I am off way better now, by using my brain and not being an asshole.
And yeah, bit of survivorship bias, ngl. But it’s far from the bleak picture you drew. If you live in a shithole, go somewhere else.
I agree with the sentiment, but a 4 day work week(or 6h/day) won’t help at all, exactly because of this. Most people will just do more passive entertainment consumption in their newly increased freetime instead of informing themselves about some complex issues or learning something new.
And at least where I live, the people that are smart enough to do what you want them to, already make enough money to work however they like and have more than enough free tkme for this kind of stuff. (I personally know some who are well off financially and all they do is <20h per week or freelance 3-5 months per year)
OnCalendar is calendar-based, not interval-based.
Use a monotonic timer with OnUnitActiveSec=7d plus Persistent=true .
This is not quite the same as your cron, because it can drift the day of ghe weak.
And no, it does not reset just because you reboot.
Engaging hard is what people often compliment me for. Thank you for creating engageable content.
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What distro btw?