This argument is covered in the article.

I think the point they’re getting at Is that you can’t use a self-hosted vpn to hide your piracy activity because the link is registered to yourself.

It actually is available on the website, but like most stores their mobile web experience isn’t great.

That actually made me laugh out loud. 😂

The Lowe’s app is actually really handy. You can look up any item and it will tell you the exact isle and bay it’s in for your store. No more wandering around or hunting for an employee to ask. It’s the only store app I actually keep on my phone.

I’ve been using screenfetch.

IDK man, I’ve been using it exclusively on my main desktop at home and I’ve been getting along just fine with those “not particularly good” applications.

I dicked around with the VM route for a while and could never really get it working 100% to my liking. There was always a trade-off. I ended up just getting a second PC and tucking it in a cabinet out of sight. When I need Windows I just use remote desktop to connect to it.

Do your friend a favor and install Windows back on his laptop for him.

They have their uses. In particular they’re useful for easily getting applications your system repositories don’t have or getting more up to date version of applications. Downsides are certainly the space all the redundant dependencies take up and the sandboxing can be a PITA especially if you have an application that needs to run another application. Overall I think they’re the best “third party” package system available but they’re not great.

App Images do suck, but I don’t think flatpak is much better. It’s more of a lesser of two evils situation. Snap isn’t even in the conversation.

Good luck finding a 65 inch computer monitor

Same I was taught. Think it’s official. Professor was a stickler for following official rules so I doubt he would deviate.

I have one of these on every TV in my house and they’re great!

For anyone who’s curious, I went ahead and created a “default” project with the title I normally use already setup on the timeline. That way when I start a new project I can just copy the default template and my title with animations is already there ready to go. Just need to modify the text and it’s good. It’s not a perfect solution, and certainly wouldn’t work for someone who desires to use different or multiple titles per project, but it’s good enough for me. Here’s what it looks like: https://youtu.be/dlGUT0c46Ts

Nailed it. I didn’t even think to check that… I’ll have to see if I can find a workaround. Thanks!

haha, yeah figuring out those ffmpeg flags is an absolute nightmare. My problem there isn’t so much the output format from Resolve, but source format I’m using. My camera only has the option to record in H.264/H.265 (consumer grade, what can you expect?) which Resolve can’t properly import on Linux. I could take the time to transcode them with ffmpeg before editing, but I’m usually working with ~2 hours worth of video per project and I don’t really want to wait all day for a transcode job to finish before I can even begin editing. On top of that my camera (rather neatly) generates its own proxy files while recording, and I’ve found leveraging these is necessary for getting good timeline performance on my aging rig. Now I could let Resolve generate its own proxy clips like I have in the past, but that’s more time waiting around before editing. I was SUPER stoked to see Kdenlive can natively utilize the proxy clips my camera generates.

ahh, that makes sense. I’ll give it a go.

EDIT: Hmm, didn’t seem to work for me. I created the script and made it executable then put the path to the script in Kdenlive’s settings. I can right-click in the project bin and click “create animation” which gives me a .JSON file but I see no way to edit it. Double-clicking it just shows me its properties and right-clicking and selecting “edit clip” does nothing. Interestingly if I execute the script from terminal it starts Glaxnimate as expected. I also went ahead and created a similar script for Pinta as my image editor since I’m also running the Flatpak version of that and had the same result as Glaxnimate when trying to edit images. I also entered the path for Audacity as my audio editor, but it’s installed as a system package so I pointed Kdenlive directly to the binary and got the same result when trying to edit audio files. Maybe I’m just not understanding this, or I have something setup wrong in Kdenlive… Any ideas?

Appreciate the link, thanks!

I saw the option for adding a new animation in the project bin, and installed Glaxnimate with the intention of giving it a shot, but the software manager in Mint only has the Flatpak version available which obviously won’t work. As for timeline preview rendering, it’s awesome! I use it to pre-render all of my titles and transitions before I record my voice over so the project monitor doesn’t stutter and throw off the timing on the audio recording. Works a treat! Speaking of voice over, I REALLY wish there was an option for a sidechain compressor input. As it stands now I record my VO, then render out each of the audio channels and then import into Audacity to apply the audio ducking and other effects before importing it all back into Kdenlive. It’s a bit of a headache but it does work.