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this show is so overrated the yandere bitch was okay though
Kevin Bell
I've used this for years github.com/mifi/lossless-cut but it does not support x265 and i've stated recording in it for better compression at lower bitrates. Is there a program that is just as basic and featureless as lossless-cut? I need "normal cut" support, meaning when i cut the video it dosent seek back or forward by k frames and get parts of the video i do not want. I've tried avidemux but it dosent support "normal cut" only key frame cut, and it also likes to desync the audio. Thanks
Carter Ross
What's the problem? Was the plot too deep for you?
Daily reminder that you should use Guix System Distribuion >functional package manager(in Lisp(!)) >System-wide configuration(in Lisp(!)) >Atomic system, can rollback after breakage >The Jow ForumsNU distro, uses linux-libre(the uncuckes version of linus) and a Hurd GuixSD is in development >You can configure your system in Lisp!!!
Luke Jenkins
nice meme
Andrew Campbell
This is a friendly thread. Get out.
Oliver Jackson
Hello I was trying to set up mpd/ncmpcpp to play audio over lan last night and couldnt get it to work I just did this and now the songs play but have no audio
Adrian Baker
Rather than connecting to a remove pulseaudio server just set up a streaming output of mpd and connect to that with any media player software that can play network streams (mpv, vlc, browsers etc).
Luke Nguyen
I can try that. Would I be able to locally control playlists etc?
Dominic Jackson
>locally Define locally. From the mpd server computer of from the one you hear the music from?
Caleb Watson
I have my media library on my nas and want to listen to it on my laptop. From the client, laptop, I would like to control playing music from the server and hearing it on my laptop.
Kayden Rogers
Enable network control in mpd then connect to it using one of the many clients available.
How do I figure out which browser to use? At the moment, I use vanilla Chrome, but would definitely be open to using something else, just to spice things up. Similarly, I have a few benchmarking utilities that don't have native Linux versions. What're some good Linux benchmarking software? I'm fine with whatever, as long as it's not autistically varying like some of the software on Windows desu Also, is there a program I could use to search for, and listen to things on Spotify & YouTube? Even if just Spotify, I just like having shit playing in the background, I swear I have tinnitus or some shit.
Benjamin Bailey
for browsers, spyware.neocities.org has a decent selection of browser reviews (and glow mitigation guides) idk about that other nonsense
Gabriel Davis
Awnn. Someone posted my meme.
Bentley Robinson
FUCK GNU/TRANNIES FUCK PRIDE MONTH
Julian Watson
>You can configure your system in Lisp!!! God help us all.
What's the easiest way to remove a Linux dualboot partition? I.e. to give more space to the other partition. No-one has been able to answer this question.
Hunter Fisher
based
Angel King
1. download a live distro with gui. ubuntu, debian, gparted live, similar. which one doesn't matter 2. put it on USB, boot from that USB 3. run gparted from the live system to do your partition operations.
>spend years grinding linux >everything is always a chore Im tired anons. Its been a decade and its still a grind every day to get anything done. All I want is for this shit to be done so I can go outside and do something else.
Hudson Lopez
unupdated windows 7.
Thomas Butler
Linux is pretty unusable.
Joshua Wilson
Please be gentle. I have a basic grasp on pc building and I'm slowly learning.
So I'm building a dirt cheap pc before I go to college. I got a free case, motherboard, and power supply from my mom's boss, which I combined with my old 1.5tb hard drive and 16gb ram from my old PC. I also got a 60gb SSD with which I'm running Mint. I know I'm going to replace the board because it was pretty crap when it was new (msi ms-7597 ver 1.2). I'm not getting anything super special because I'm going to be mostly using it for school work.
For some reason, this is acting really weird. Sometimes the whole thing locks up and either turns everything upside down at random, or I get this fuzzy screen like pic related. Does this sound like software or hardware issues?
this has nothing to do with fglt. Fuck off back to sqt.
Hudson Fisher
Hardware, gpu is dead. If it's an onboard gpu one of the ram sticks may be bad. But it's probably the gpu. Find a cheap used one.
Brayden Murphy
It sounds like some kind of hardware issue if it happens randomly. But there is one way to rule it out, try another OS for a week and see if it's an issue with that too. I don't exactly want to promote the Windows but it's free now (with a "activate windows" text on the wallpaper) and it's a pretty simple way to rule of if it's Linux-related or hardware-related. I am guessing something similar will happen in Windows too, that kind of looks like a bad GPU with a fan that doesn't spin so it overheats or something like that.
She's using Linux Mint. That's Friendly Linux Thread related. Your post appears to be less relevant since it is, objectively speaking, not very friendly.
Isaiah Russell
samefag
Christopher Edwards
Which .rpm distro should I use for general desktop stuff? Fedora, OpenSUSE, CentOS, or Mageia?
Hudson Adams
Opensuse but Centos is not bad and it redeives updates for 10+3 years.
Jordan Powell
Also, Opensuse’s KDE is without match in terms of polishment if you are into that.
I know your answer will be biased but... Is it worth it to install Linux/Gnu on a thousand dollar laptop with GTX 1050 graphics card? I don't play videogames but use Blender so I want to use my graphics card at full capacity.
Luke Nguyen
GNU/Linux*
Aiden Anderson
yes. proprietary nvidia drivers are quite decent (assuming you won't use a fuctarded/hipster distro).
Julian Cook
the 1050 isnt exactly a powerhouse and if its a mobile version like your processor is then itll be gimped like your processor is. If you have real work to do then get a desktop. As far as I know, blender runs just fine on windows, and it seems like I remember it running better on windows because the installation is going to be complete and exact unlike how on linux theres a million variations of the install process.
Why is switching to linux for blender even a thought for you?
Thomas Long
bad post
Jace Rivera
Help
Eli Smith
Why not just use ffmpeg? With the "copy" codec you get lossless cuts. Although it cuts on keyframes so it's not exact. Then if you want exact cuts you just specify the codec.
Anthony Rodriguez
Cause i dont want to type out a billion commands that are 1000+ char to cut 50 segments of a 10 hour long video. Its not feasible to use the command line. If i have to view the video to find the timestamps why would i not just using a fucking gui instead of typing out the commands in the clii? Asinine I REQUIRE non keyframe cuts, which lossless-cut provides and kdenlive,avidemux/literally everything else cannot handle for some reason
Joseph Martin
Linux is just a kernel. Please show respect to the operating systems original creators, the GNU project, and call the system by its given name.
Caleb Brooks
Gnu is a toolset for the linux kernel. Please show respect for real developers and call it what it is.
Jayden Howard
>arguing with wintards
James Nguyen
Gnu is a toolset and linux is just a kernel, please show some respect to the people who actually made the OS you're using and call it by it's given name, whether it is Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, etc.
Nathaniel Evans
Your logic: >GNU developed tools for Linux in 1983, 8 years before Linux was even an idea Doesn't match up, huh?
it requires Qt5. look up on how to compile stuff that requires qt5 and qmake on the gentoo wiki
Sebastian Evans
I just downloaded, compiled, installed and used it, all on the first try.
idk what in the name of fuck you are doing but damn brul you are doing it wrong.
Ethan Bailey
based AND redpilled
Zachary Martinez
Bi-centennial reminder to backup your shit + use unlink instead of rm for deleting symbolic links
just recovered from a rm -rf ~ through stray links lol xD
Jaxson Sanchez
lol xD so loco mi amigo elaborate on that topic please
Colton Sullivan
get out
Cooper Jenkins
motherfucker you are the opposite of friendly
John Brooks
like seriously it'll help me reinstall my debian. i need to get this kivy to work for an app i have due and i want to use linux for this.
Benjamin Bell
well you might be tempted to write rm -r link/ to delete a link to a directory, but it actually deletes the contents at the target
rm link will work, but unlink is "safer" i guess lol xD
John Brown
you didn't explain shit. at least show how the partitions are now and how you want them to be. it will either be just dragging and double clicking stuff on gparted or impossible.
Anthony Torres
Is Opensuse the best distro for a AMD setup?
Brayden Walker
they are all the same
Brayden Turner
I'm using Flatpak for the first time(testing in a VM running OpenSuse). When I update my system using apt/dnf/zypper or whatever, the flatpak programs will update too?
Matthew Hall
i have a 1 tb file with a linux install that got fucked. it has 300 gigs of media i don't want to back up.
i want to repartition my hd so i have a 400 gig section that's separate from the main drive, so i can reinstall the os on the main drive and keep the media on the seperate drive accessable from the new os.
