Oh, nice. I didn’t catch what account posted it when I clicked on it.

It was the other day, too. It’ll probably be gone by tomorrow though. But keep uploading it for sure.

If you stop hearing from me, that’s exactly what happened; look for that van.

Them’s the fanciest lookin’ Funyuns I ever did saw, I tell ya whut

I guess what happens is people can redact it such that they can no longer see it in their particular pdf software but then a different software can bypass it

That’s pretty charitable. I’ve worked civil service many years ago and the computer skills of some of them were beyond laughable. I never dealt with redacted documents during that stint of my life but I can say with 100% certainty that I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if someone “redacted” a document by making the text and background highlight color black and posting the Word docx file online.

This theory is making more and more sense. Which also implies there’s no Who Tony Stark to make him the uber-stretchy pants.

Or maybe he’s like the Hulk and turns back into a regular Who when he’s in a better mood?

https://github.com/marytts/marytts

I’ve used MaryTTS semi-recently. It’s older but works well enough for my cases. I have it running on a server (locally) and my endpoints make a call to it and playback the returned audio file.

On Android, I use SherpaTTS which has good voices, but I’m not aware of a desktop/Linux option. It mentions using voices from Coqui which you linked, so I would guess that would be the way to go for desktop.

Saw some posts and comments from a while back about the Trek books

That was probably me. I started reading them over the summer and have talked about them quite a bit. I haven’t read Q-Squared yet, but I also have it in my collection (not for $1.99 though 😠). I took a break after I finished the Cold Equations trilogy but am probably going to start on the Titan series next.

Thanks for the heads up about it being confusing to follow. I tend to do marathon reads rather than short sprints, so hopefully that helps. I don’t think I’ve read any of Peter David’s books yet, but the ones by David Mack are all great and well paced.

and not let it ruin the medium

If you’re not a fan of that one, yes, please don’t let it ruin the rest of them for you. The Destiny trilogy is absolutely amazing as are most of the ones I’ve read (though Destiny is for sure my favorite).

My collection so far:

Mastodon, not my cup of tea (to be fair, neither was Twitter). I just don’t find micro-blogging to be very engaging and my mind categorizes it as “brain rot”.

Sharkey? Haven’t heard of that one until I just googled it, but one look at their mascot and…no. Just… no.

Have been looking at joining Piefed instance, though.

Also the way it links with Lemmy feels weird

And the culture is just different. I’m not sure how to describe it, but I’ll try. It’s like…imagine the threadiverse portion of the fediverse as a library or a meeting room where people are having a quiet discussion. Mastodon accounts feel like they’re barging in all loud and boorish like “HEYYYYY! LOOK AT ME!!! HASHTAG HASHTAG HASHTAG”

I’m not ready for it to end (even though I knew it was coming and is still a year and a half or more away) 😥

Oh, yeah. I totally forgot about serving size chicanery.

• “Up to…” when used to describe things like internet speeds
• “Wholesome” when used to describe food. Not really a lie, per se, but “wholesome” has absolutely no meaning when it comes to nutrition and just sounds good
• “Zero calories” or 0 grams of [blank] in the nutrition information. The regulations let them round down if it’s less than 1 gram standard unit of measurement for that item (edited from grams).
• Any time you see “free” there’s always at least an implied asterisk

Dunno how I missed this, but I referenced this post as a reply to another and am just now seeing it.

The box I ssh into is headless, and AFAIK, use of /media/{user}/{mountpoint} is just a desktop environment convention. When I plug in any kind of removable media to this box, I manually mount it under /mnt. I mount my NAS’s media share to /media mostly for convenience since that’s the main purpose of this box in my workshop.

https://startrek.website/post/30351229

Basically ssh into the box in my workshop and mplayer my whole music folder on shuffle.

I thought that was the Mid-Atlantic Accent?

Best thing I did was train my dogs to sit before I’ll open the door. Youngest one (a Russell terrier mix) used to bolt out (thankfully the yard is fenced).

Probably also helps that we have a “going outside” routine too. They don’t wear their collars inside so before we go out, they have to sit while I put their collars on them.