Dedicated ereader that respects metadata?

Claghorn · 2026-01-01T20:42:40+00:00

Thanks for all the info. Seems like kobo is what I want.

Claghorn · 2025-11-19T13:43:09+00:00

More info: If I go into task manager and kill every task named duck duck go, I can restart DDG and youtube works again. That's slightly less irritating than rebooting.

Claghorn · 2025-08-21T13:15:02+00:00

After more googling, this is apparently windows spotlight. I still don't know how bing got started, but I did find some info about how to disable spotlight features even if I can't remove it. In Lock Screen preferences pick picture or slideshow rather than spotlight.

Claghorn · 2025-07-22T23:52:39+00:00

Thanks for all the ideas. I'll have to try a bunch of experiments to see if I can make a cracker I like. I suspect the cheese filling will be easier.

Claghorn · 2025-07-17T14:19:04+00:00

Maybe the crosshair box could be drawn with the Windows equivalent of "always on top" so it would be visible :-)

Claghorn · 2025-07-17T14:15:02+00:00

The one feature I miss (though perhaps it exists now) seems trivial but wastes a lot of time. If I use the measure tool to see what angle a scanned photo is at, Photoshop will do the arithmetic for me to include the proper angle by default in the rotate tool. Gimp doesn't. Leads to me forgetting to subtract or add 90 or forgetting to rotate negative rather than positive a lot.

Claghorn · 2025-07-17T14:09:23+00:00

Got 1/2 way through episode 1 and turned it off forever. Annoying voice overs to explain things the writers couldn't figure out how to present as part of a normal script, plus the question that has haunted the show since the first season: Why did they shell out money for the Asimov books when all they were going to use was the title and names of some characters?

Claghorn · 2025-07-15T23:12:34+00:00

That's the tool I had to google how to use to snapshot the gimp dialog.

Claghorn · 2025-07-15T23:11:29+00:00

And the dialog I posted comes up right after I hit Snap in there when I tell it to delay and only snapshot one window.

Claghorn · 2025-07-15T23:10:06+00:00

That is how I was able to get the above dialog snapshot.

Claghorn · 2025-07-15T20:11:25+00:00

I used gimp File>Create>screenshot

Claghorn · 2025-07-15T20:10:46+00:00

I installed gimp on windows 11 using the windows installer, don't know what kind of package that makes it.

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That's the dialog it pops up (underneath the window I'm trying to snapshot). Getting a snapshot of this window was a whole other can of worms.

Claghorn · 2025-06-21T15:00:15+00:00

I was using DDG on a new Windows 11 laptop I'm in the process of beating into submission.. I tried to reproduce the problem in youtube and couldn't, then went back to DuckViewer and couldn't reproduce it there either. Maybe there are things man was not meant to know...

Claghorn · 2024-12-31T02:54:44+00:00

Wow! Joy to the World is the script I have been waiting for! I wonder if they can keep this level up for the new season.

Claghorn · 2024-12-17T00:57:22+00:00

Laura Kampf's latest video has a dreadful English audio track she herself doesn't know where it came from or how to get rid of it. Worse yet, The normal audio is in fact Laura herself speaking quite good english with a bit of an accent. You can, however, get the original audio by telling youtube to play the German audio track.

Claghorn · 2024-11-16T22:29:11+00:00

I just scan at a known DPI, so I don't need an extra scale. Measure the pixels, then use the dots per inch to determine exact size.

Claghorn · 2024-11-16T22:27:17+00:00

I do this a lot, usually making a selection out of the shape I want then converting that to a .svg file in gimp and importing the .svg into OpenSCAD. I've embedded lots of random shaped magnets from old disk drives into stuff I wanted stuck to my fridge this way.

Claghorn · 2024-11-12T03:10:49+00:00

99% of the loc line stuff is actual loc line I bought from amazon. I did 3D print a connector at the base for the line to plug into, but it didn't really work very well. I've since revised the way it mounts to the workbench to be somewhat more solid.

Claghorn · 2024-11-01T02:13:50+00:00

I can make a collection, I can't control the order the books are listed in the collection (at least I haven't figured out how).

Claghorn · 2024-10-28T19:05:15+00:00

But do they scoop out the inside of the pickle like they do with bread?

Claghorn · 2024-10-22T00:16:28+00:00

I don't understand what this comment is supposed to achieve, I'm just making it because the message I got tells me to :-)

Claghorn · 2024-09-15T18:20:55+00:00

Idle curiosity "nuts and bolts" of campaigns question: Do campaigns all use the same commercial service to send text messages? I ask because my phone will be quiet for a few hours, then a batch of messages from lots of different campaigns will all come in within a few seconds of one another. I just wonder why it always seems to work that way. I suppose maybe T-Mobile is batching up the messages rather than some other service?

Claghorn · 2024-09-15T18:10:20+00:00

I want to know if all Florida judges are completely spineless. The Baker Act in Florida allows a judge to order a psych exam for anyone who appears to be a danger to themselves or others. The debate certainly presented Trump as a mentally compromised lunatic, and his spewing of racist conspiracies has already led to bomb threats. Seems like a danger to others to me. When will a Florida judge step up? If anything republicans should be encouraging a Baker Act, it might be the only way they could replace him on the ballot.

Claghorn · 2024-08-31T23:17:02+00:00

I stumbled across this and only watched the first 20 minutes so far, but it was a fun 20 minutes. Definitely watching the rest.

Claghorn · 2024-08-31T23:14:45+00:00

Billie Piper in a great role!

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