I can taste the bland just looking at that.

• hire a Canadian driver

Of course not. This is all a face-saving canard. He’ll be back to threatening nuclear war again in a couple weeks.

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Buttery males.

Just read that sentence back to yourself.

If Trump gets his wish and co-ops the Fed, they might as well start dumping USD. It’s going to be on a wild ride after that.

I do OK with faster-whisper for transcribing, and I built a wyoming container for pocket-tts that does pretty good local TTS but I am running it as a docker on a ryzen machine (no gpu) so YMMV. Pocket-TTS seems better than Piper IMO, it’s certainly faster for local TTS if all you’re using is CPU.

I’ve been looking for a MCU that has enough oomph to do some noise cancellation onboard and I ordered up a couple of these in the hopes that the onboard NPU would be useful for that. It also has a speaker output and onboard mic. Price was right for 8GB of EMMC and 256MB of ram.

When Kubuntu craters again (and it will), try the Fedora KDE spin if you want to stick with a KDE desktop.

I’ve never had anything but trouble with Kubuntu and I’ve tried it several times over the last decade. Maybe they’ve got it stabilized, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Are you doing anything special for the microphone(s) and noise cancellation? I’m leaning towards making my own satellites as I’d like a half a dozen or so and the PEs are more than I want to spend on the project.

Well, Scott Bessent is a twat, but 100M in US tbills isn’t a dot on the map. But maybe it pushes other investment funds and governments the same way a little bit.

World peace is solved.

This is the correct answer with the caveat that the solution is an economic solution: alternative energy has to be so economically superior that it overrides the legacy lobbies. Which is getting close to being the case everywhere except extremely corrupt systems like the US.

Holy shit, that’s grim. I was waiting for something to tell me it was satire. It is not.

It’ll be 11 years soon.

How about they find a reason to harass people first?

My dad (white guy in very white city) was getting pulled over constantly because he was coming home from work (projectionist at a movie theatre) at 1AM all the time. Same guy every time. After about the dozenth time he drove to the detachment in the morning and had a discussion with the sergeant and that shit ended.

They just like being dickheads.

Former IT and current farmer. I just did everything in the terminal.

Closest I’ve come to any of that black magic hotkey fuckery is I’ve learned to hold shift when I drag to get it to snap to my tiling setup in KDE. Oh and Alt-tab for window switching and Meta-Tab for Activities.

I’m pretty much ready for Sway as you can tell.

Why would they not supply some default decorations when none are available?

Jesus, Gnome is such a shitshow.

I just tried that now (didn’t know it was a thing) and it’s not a very satisfactory solution if I’m moving monitors. When I get it to where I want, I can’t just double-click to max it again like I can dragging the title bar. Can’t say I’ll use that.