What application have you recently discovered?

Actually I can confirm the HEIC parameters are valid for AVIF. I’ve had a play around with it, and it certainly makes a difference.

I used a 8818x5511 panorama image to test with, encoding with, and without the -define heic:speed=0 parameter.

Time

  • 53.737 seconds with heic:speed=0
  • 6.367 seconds without (default is 5)

Size (comparable)

  • 2580449 with heic:speed=0
  • 2556279 without

There is a notable quality difference between the two, when taken into Gimp and zoomed in. The photo using the default value of 5, has a lot more compression artefacts. My compression level was 50% for the test, so it is pushing the compression hard. At higher quality settings, the difference may be less noticeable.

Solaar.
Thanks to @joekamprad :slight_smile:

is also interesting GUI app for GPU investigation
(saw it on a screenshot from @UncleSpellbinder )

Major update to LACT has been released. 0.8.4-2 has been flagged out of date, 0.9.0-1 is in testing. Hopefully ready soon.

Some kind of fortune called Kotofetch, but japanese specific, can use different modes such as haiku or animes quotes. (it’s in the AUR)

atril opens *.cbz (comic-book zips) with avif images, Eye of Gnome, or XFCE’s image viewers can’t do that.

i will add this

see size after …

As a Discord alternative I’d recommend Fluxer. The UI/UX is quite similar to Discord. Most people hate to get accustomed to completely new/different tools.

I love the idea of alternatives to Discord. But I’d have a rough time leaving Discord for Fluxer simply because I don’t know how many (if any) of my follows are there. I still may look at it as a supplement to Discord. Thanks for sharing!

It is always the same, no matter which app one is talking about. People are quite unwilling to switch, but at some point we have to break the chains. Things are getting worse by the day. There needs to be a shift in mind-set.

Nice. How does your :steaming_bowl: go so far
Install it: sudo pacman -S ratty

He surely looks like seeing THE END in the eyes.
:star_struck:

Nice. Genealogy program, which helps you track your family tree. I’ll take a look at that. I can go back about four generations. To go further, I’ll need to do some serious genealogical research - that is, check church and civil registry records.

For a tea break:

I tried Hollywood a month or so ago, and it made the fans in my computer go crazy. I ended up removing it.

Not a bad start if your are into genealogy. . . . good for tracing family historical trees when exploring the past.

Rich :wink:

Sounds interesting. The Extra repository lists it as “Flagged out-of-date on Date 26-04-13” … what might this mean?

In the USA this TV mini-series ignited a lot of interest in serious genealogical research back in 1997 and the early eighties.

My paternal aunt really got into this and gave me her findings. I ended up buying Family Tree Maker and doing some detective work on the internet. That’s how I found out that one of my paternal great great? grandfathers bought some of the acreage for the homestead.
After the US Civil War the federal government gave Union soldiers script (a form of money) and a deed document so they could get some land and start a new life. A lot of soldiers were not interested in farming so they would sell the script and deed document. My grandfather bought two 40 acre plots with military script. He was not in the military, so he had to have bought script from soldier(s). This brought the homestead up to 160 acres which was a lot back then.

Pudge

Forget hollywood. . . . just compile and install qt6-webengine. . . . I think that was the software that I tried installing a day or two back that literally ran for over an hour or two. . . just compiling. . .

That’s a great backdrop for any Hollywood movie that needs computer screens scenes running in the background as a backdrop. . . .

Rich :wink: