juli

Earlier today, I posted an ai generated image. I thought it's a very good image. I wanted to share it because it was something special I hadn't seen before. The post was removed after a while. The removal made me think.

What happened?

An "ai" generated a series of images of which a human selected one and shared it in a forum. It is coincidence that it was the first image that yielded the best result.

The ai could've posted the image itself. It wouldn't have needed a human. And even if it needs a human today to select the image, it might not need a human tomorrow to judge if a picture is of higher quality.

If we allow ai generated content in a forum where humans interact with each other, we risk our conversations and interactions. If we let a computer post what we read and see we lose our community life. We end up interacting only with machines and not humans.

I remembered a news story that facebook started artificial profiles on facebook/instagram. It would post only artificially generated content. 10 years ago it was important to facebook that we proof that we are human and no bot or alt account. Today facebook is only profit driven. It does not care if humans or robots interact with each other. It's cool that there are machines now.

I do not want to see posts of a computer, I do not want other people to see this content and interact with it. It is an incredible technology. It's astonishing what we achieved so far and what we will achieve in the future.

I do not want to live in a world where we interact with machines and can not distinguish between human reality and fiction. I am deeply sorry. I have thought about it and I am greatful that I have a better understanding of it.

How good would the experience be with a linux phone and an external camera?

I've got a pixel 6 and although camera's are getting better each year, it's not even close to a dslm. And video qualit is probably better with a proper action camera.

I mean, directly "mounting" the camera to the phone and shooting with the phone.

I'm trying to figure out how to host one myself. I'm trying to use barvarder and localai. But I am failing due to not enough knowledge and missing instructions. Any advice? did someone succeed with anything? I'd be happy to make other smaller steps at first as well. As long as I get somewhere.

I just found the gnome-translate-indicator which is great! I click on the button in the top panel and then I can lookup any word. It's only one way but that's not a big problem for me as I rarely translate to English, mostly from.

edit: the extension uses translate-shell which uses google, bing, but also apertium. So far I have not found a way to switch settings. I guess you have to point to a translate-shell instance which has to be configured.

I was wondering if there is an improved workflow for this. We've got bangs in the browser and is there a way to include this into the general GNOME search? maybe with a bang?

Additionaly, there is Light Dict which looks like a great app but doesn't work on my machine out of the box (it fails to execute a trans process). Before trying to find the problem, I'd like to know if someone is using it.

edit2: I can't find any attribution to any external dictionary. Use it at your own risk.

edit3: There is also Dialect with which you can translate via lingva or libretranslate. It looks like a nice gui app.

So, is there a perfect workflow for this? I'd lvoe to hear your experience with translation and dictionary lookups on GNOME / linux

GNOME search can't calculate stuff. krunner on KDE is increadibly powerful. Is there anything I can do to make GNOME's search a bit more like krunner? at least do basic math ...

This is gold. A script that automatically downloads music

I don't need a world clock, yet it's always there in the drop down notification area

Yesterday I made a post about PaperWM which is a scrollable tiling window manager extension for GNOME. Today, I had "lookup 'window always on top' " on my to do list for boring days. I couldn't find anything and after 2 minutes I wondered why I am still searching for it because with the tiling window manager, I do not need such a thing because nothing is overlapping. PaperWM to the rescue! Super Ctrl Escape puts the focused window always on top. You can put as many windows on top as you want. Mission accomplished, thx PaperWM!

It gets better. With a side-wards scrollable desktop, you can really use vertical workspaces. V-Shell is a beast. It does not only provide vertical workspaces but extends default GNOMES functionality. You can have more apps in a folder, more apps in overview, more funny keybindings. In my opinion this is way too much for an extension. This is a lot of extensions in one, just like Just Perfection contains a lot of functionality. I've got a 4k monitor and PaperWM and V-Shell really help to make GNOME shine. The workflow still feels weird but I'll get there.

PaperMW clashes with some of my fav keybindings like Super+F to open firefox and Super+T to open the text editor but I'll adapt to the new workflow!

I've never seen it being shown here, so I thought I'd make a post.

I've never got into tiling window managers, there's a hurdle to get into them because I have to decide first which one I'll look into. I have to spend time without knowing if I even want it. And the first impressions weren't that awesome to jump over the hurdle. I was "satisfied with basic tiling" or super user friendly, minimal workload, tiling things. Usually, I played with awesome tiles or forge and they are great.

I stumbled upon PaperWM which extends the view to the side. It automatically appends windows to the side and you can scroll through them. You can do a lot and I still need to figure out how everything works but it's at least fun to explore it. I'm on GNOME 45 and so far I haven't seen any bug.

I need to repair a drive with chkdsk and don't have access to windows

edit: hopefully, I only have to do it once. I will search for someone with a real windows machine. It's not worth the trouble =(

Usually, I'd run the app from the terminal.

I'm trying to refresh the online calendars in gnome's calendar gnome-calendar or org.gnome.Calendar but nothing happens. It shows a check mark as if it was successful.

edit: I just reinstalled the calendar via software from flathub and cleared the cache. The app is now unresponsive. I can't uninstall it anymore. reboot.

edit2: after a reinstall, calendar still has the outdated information. Even though I deleted everything. Evolution has the latest data which means that sync is working.