Full interface overhaul? Maybe . . . ? 🙏

/* claps hands excitedly as a Linux n00b who picked Fedora /*

AltCeption!

Was introduced to Merlin a few weeks ago on a scout nature course, and I love it so much!

I’m using it a sort of real-life pokémon game, trying to grow my list of found birds (Life List). So far I’m up to 36! 😍

I realize this is a FOSS channel, but I’m going to play devil’s advocate and suggest Eagle.

I have some 40K assets, mostly JPGs and PNGs, and apart from Obsidian, Eagle is the best piece of software I’ve found in the last 5 years, maybe longer, and I absolutely adore it.

It’s not free, but it’s pay-once, fairly cheap, and the upcoming version has an API and huge focus on community developed plugins.

The current version supports a huge amount of file types, including 3D. I’m not completely sure about audio, but I’d be kinda surprised if Eagle didn’t support audio.

Iirc the pirate bay guys made something like that, but only in the browser, and only for very few websites. It gives the content a like button. Periodically it then distributes money over all your likes from a preset pool of cash.

So, micro payments? 🤔

(wink wink)

Maybe Sublinks could be(come) that new platform you guys have been searching for, re: Beehaw thinking about leaving Lemmy? 🤔

I just hope it will be compatible with the available Lemmy apps (Voyager in particular) 😓

Edit: Or PieFed I guess 😊

That sounds like a great solution 😃 Good luck with the writing!

That’s not a half bad idea! 😮

How do you prop up the phone? 🤔

Very cool! 😳

I think it might be a bit beyond both my skill-set and available tools 😅

I think I liked the thought of having one more than I would have enjoyed actually having one 😅

That sounds like a pretty cool setup! It’s nice when there’s still good use cases for old hardware 😊

Wow, this takes me back to the days of Eee PCs and dreams of having a tiny, ultra portable laptop 😍

I went down the rabbit hole 😬 This 10.5" CHUWI MiniBook X looks pretty darned tempting!

I could run a minimalistic Fedora distro on it, have it in my jacket pocket. I’d use it mainly as an Obsidian interface. Shame it doesn’t have a SIM slot 😓

Maybe something to consider when my ASUS C302 Chromebook Fedorabook (fuck you very much for the EOL, Google!) eventually bites the dust 🤔

Maybe have a look at this comment elsewhere in the thread.

I recently recommended Rosetta Stone to a new friend who just moved to Denmark from South Africa with his family, only to find that they had switched to a subscription model, and also scrapped their Danish course completely 😓

Was getting ready to raise the black flag and search the seven seas for the old Danish Level 1 course, when I discovered that it was available at the library, and he just had to put in a reservation and it would be sent to our local branch for pickup.

He has it now, and he’s super happy with it (as a supplement to Danish classes).

If you don’t know Rosetta Stone, its main feature is that there are zero instructions; everything is set up so you have to intuit what is going on, the idea being that you’re learning the new language “the same way you learned your first language”, as opposed to having to use your main language as a translation layer.

I did a little bit of their Japanese and Spanish Level 1 course some ~20 years ago, and I still remember everything I learned, even though I never used either language for anything since.

Anyway, my main point is that you might be able to get access to good commercial courses from your library, maybe check it out 😊👍

I’ve actually had great success with Rosetta Stone (not free in either way), but YMMV.

Ah, pedantry. Snubbing OP for using the word ‘opinion’ instead of ‘advice’, which, given the context, should be synonymous here. Got it 👍

What an odd question. May I ask why you posed it (serious)?

There seems to be some sort of snub in it, but I can’t figure out who the target is.

Is it not common sense to ask for advice when you’re unsure of something?

Don’t know much about Linux, but looking to convert my EOL Asus C302 Chromebook to Linux, so trying to learn anywhere I can 😊

After reading all the comments for this post, if you’re right about Flatpak de-duping, that would make a good portion of the arguments against moot.

Hopefully someone knowledgeable can step in and add some more info.

Incidentally, if anyone has a suggestion for a lightweight Linux distro that I can use on my Chromebook, any and all ideas are welcome 😁