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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • You may already have the answer from the other comments - but specifically for subtitle transcription, I’ve used whisper and set it to output directly into SRT, which I could then import directly into kdenlive or VLC or whatever, with timecodes and everything. It seemed accurate enough that the editing of the subs afterwards was almost non-existant.

    I can’t remember how I installed Whisper in the first place, but I know (from pressing the up arrow in terminal 50 times) that the command I used was:

    whisper FILENAME.MP3 --model medium.en --language English --output_format srt

    I was surprised/terrified how accurate the output was - and this was a variety of accents from Northern England and rural Scotland. A few minutes of correcting mistakes only.


  • I’d also accept a variation on that Christopher Walken bit from Pulp Fiction…

    “He was captured and put in a Cardassian prison camp. Now he knew if the Cardies ever saw the baseball card it’d be confiscated. He’d be damned if any spoonheads gonna put their scaly grey hands on his limited edition baseball card, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this baseball card up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the baseball card. I hid this uncomfortable piece of cardboard up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I sell the baseball card to you.”











  • At their heart, most distros are approximately “made of the same stuff”. There’s differences in package management in the background (e.g. how the “software centre” works), but essentially the difference between a “gaming distro”, “normal distro” and “creative distro” is just what programs are installed by default, and how a few things are set up by default.

    Nothing stops me playing games on Mint (and historically, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) - and likewise, nothing will stop you installing office programs, audio/video/graphics programs etc on something presented as a gaming distro.


  • There’s a sort of order from least to most destructive:

    Exactly correct driver >
    using an elastic band or other thin piece of rubber, between driver and screw, for grip >
    different screwdriver that fits differently (e.g. a small flat driver in any cross-headed screw) >
    again, with elastic/rubber >
    other, unlikely drivers >
    other grippy options, like steel wool >
    superglue the driver to the screw >
    epoxy resin a driver to the screw >
    cut a new flat-head into the screw head with a dremel >
    use a screw extracting bit >
    drill out the screw head >
    cut or drill out the plastic surround

    I’m sure there’s other options I’ve not remembered. A lot of it depends on which screw is stuck, and how accessible it is.