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I might be wrong, but wasn’t Movit just for timeline preview, and hadn’t worked properly for quite a few versions and now you just use the NVENC/VAAPI etc export profiles to export with GPU?

I’m sure it’s not possible for everyone - but I essentially did this some years back - though more with Premiere than Photoshop - and therefore more Cinelerra/Kdenlive than Gimp/Krita.

I ran a dual boot system from about 2008 until about 2015. If it could be done in Linux/FOSS, it was. If it couldn’t, it was done in Windows/Adobe software.

I was self-employed, though I often did subcontracting work for a handful of media/umbrella organisations - so sometimes I had to use Premiere or Sony Vegas to carry on half-done projects I was handed.

Bear in mind this was when you bought Adobe software and didn’t rent it - and you could also keep running an older version for years.

Anyway, over time I used the Windows partition less and less, until I got rid of it entirely when I got a new computer.

I had to work a bit harder one year, and I did miss out on a few projects - but mostly, I could do everything I could do previously, but it took a bit longer for a while until I adjusted to a different workflow.

After that, you’re just saying “That’s a £2000 job”, “That’s a £200 job”, and meeting a deadline. Nobody really cares if it took 7 minutes longer to do, and I saved a lot of time not using Windows any more.

Editing (and other design stuff) is a far smaller part of my overall work these days, but I still do a good chunk of projects over the year, and I’ve been 100% Linux for almost 10 years. No regrets.

To a degree, yes, but don’t expect magic. Some laptops have a waterproof membrane under the keyboard, so if you’re lucky, and it does, you may be able to just pop the keys off and dry the membrane out, and make sure no liquid creeps round the side into the electronics.

Otherwise you may have better odds if you open up the case and mop up any/all loose liquid you can get to with a microfibre cloth, as soon as possible, then try and let it air dry for a while.

A sealed bag with dried rice and your electronic object may absorb a bit of leftover moisture, but only to the extent that it will equal the moisture level in the sealed bag - the dried rice will gain a little extra moisture, the object will lose that bit of extra moisture.

Try to resist the urge to turn it on to check if it’s working until you’ve got all the moisture out.

This won’t apply to everywhere, but near me (in the UK), the council removed some of our bus lanes and cycle lanes last year, to appease some angry car babies, and possibly Rishi “We’re a nation of car drivers” Sunak.

It’s now difficult to safely cycle to the city centre.

At commuter times, the bus can now take 45 minutes for a 40 minute on-foot journey. Used to be 10 - 15.

The buses also get stuck in traffic at various earlier points in their route, so may be 10 - 30 minutes late or cancelled. This was already a problem, because the bus company is appalling, but it’s got worse since some of the bus lanes are gone. Very little chance of using this to get to work on time, or to get to the train station if you’re working out of town.

I’m not surprised bus and cycle usage is down. I walk instead, but I imagine many others can’t afford the extra hour of travel time every day and are now driving again.
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It’s a good plan for a more professional setup, but in this distinctly unprofessional setup, if I did it remotely, I wouldn’t get my chat and a cup of tea and biscuit :)

I can’t personally, but I’ve installed/set up Linux systems for quite a lot of older people, and I think only one of them ever uses the terminal for anything. The rest just… use the computer.

On the whole, they’re pretty much just using Libreoffice, Firefox and a few other bits these days. If something needs the terminal to fix, we’re already past the point where they’ve phoned me to pop round and fix it.

These used to be Ubuntu systems, but I switched them all to Mint after having endless Snap permission problems with printers, USB sticks and other peripherals. Once up and running, it’s pretty low maintenance.

I guess they don’t need to use the terminal, because I’ll go and do it if it’s necessary - but we are looking at once every few years. Not a lot of tech support needed.

On my own machine, I probably use the terminal every day.

These are great, and I love the extra information and write-up you’ve put in. Thank you :)

I think it goes futher than that, and it’s “not Heathcliff, with Heathcliff” on a weekend.

Removing Heathcliff (character) from Heathcliff (comic) during the week.

Adding Heathcliff (character) to a random Unrelated cartoon/comic on the weekend.

I imagine the original comic had a plain white canvas.

I really like this. Enjoyably complex and beautifully executed.

From Android Jerboa, it all works as you’d hope.

Static image on main view or individual post, plays instantly if you click on it :)

Sorry, I thought you actually hadn’t heard of Rockrolling, so the explanation attempt was genuine. It wasn’t intended to be patronising. My apologies.

If you look on the wiki page, the “roll” bit is actually from “egg roll”, as odd as that sounds. Other variations tend to have taken the “something-rolled” format, so I was just going with that.

Anyway, call it what you like, the important thing is that you try it :)

Rickrolling (wikipaedia link) is where you post a link, pretending it’s something relevant, but it’s actually a link to Rick Astley’s song “Never Gonna Give You Up”. My suggestion was that Star Trek fans, if playing the same trick, should instead post Leonard Nimoy’s Bilbo Baggins Song.

[Edit] And without “Rick” it’s not Rickrolling - and with Spock/Nimoy, I was suggesting “Spockrolling” or “Nimrolling” as possible alternatives that would work in the same way.

Now you’ve seen it, it’s your duty to use this in place of “Never going to give you up” by Rick Astley.

No more “rickrolling”, it’s “spockrolling” (or “nimrolling”?) from now on.

Most of them are still just “a picture of a thing”, so you’re probably fine to keep the original opinion in most cases :)

The style of work (which had existed much longer, but was named “Trompe-l’œil” a few hundred years ago, French for “Deceive the eye”) is a style of realistic painting intended to trick the viewer into thinking it’s a real object/room/space.

If you owned one of these in your house, you could troll everyone who visited by asking them to go through the fake door, open the fake curtain, pick up the fake object on the fake table etc, whilst you sat giggling in the corner waiting for them to realise it was merely a painting.

The fact that the room may only be dimly lit by candle or gas/paraffin lamp would help with your deception.

I like that there’s a 2000 year old style of artwork which is just historically trolling people with pictures.

“Jan, prithee fetch my giant comb from the random selection of objects I have strapp’d to the wall over there”

“Of course, Samuel! But… what? I cannot grasp the giant comb, it is flat… these objects are all flat”

“Lol”

If you include remasters, I’ve been playing Shenmue I, which I think I originally played on my friend’s Dreamcast in about 2001. Think it was one of the most expensive games ever made when it first came out, so I guess that’d make it pretty AAA?

There’s a lot that feels a bit dated in it, like slightly clunky controls, annoyingly long sequences for tiny things (i.e. taking your shoes off every time you go in/out the house), emotionally stunted voiceovers etc - but it also holds up as a good mystery, and such a beautifully realised game world that the clunkiness just becomes sort of joyously nostalgic. I think it’s great.

Also, the creepy little kids that shout “HEY MISTER! DO YOU WANT TO PLAY… soooocccerrrr?” are still hilarious.

You can use the box to collect cats in.

You could get a lighter denim jong, so it wouldn’t get lost amongst the darker denim of your jarpet.