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I think the intention is that you would read it as “Everything is impossible” followed by “Nothing is impossible”

But then I looked at it again and got “Everything is impossible / Nothing is possible”

So all in all, I think it’s a poorly conceived sign

If you want an out of the box distro that just works and has that old-school flavour, maybe look into Mint.

If you want something a bit more modern, then pop_os! is something of a Linux darling

Ubuntu probably has the widest community support. Although it does seem to have some issues

I’m not clear on what your bugs are, but if it’s like, you run a command in the terminal and a bunch of scary sounding messages come up, that’s normal. That’s just how it likes to be

If it’s been a while since you’ve seen used it, then I’d say Linux is probably worth another shot. It’s come a long way, and it only gets better with age

In English we have an idiom, “same shit, different day,” which means dealing with the same sort of unpleasant task until it’s routine. Do you have something similar?

This Hamburg court thing sounds like something I’d call “same shit, different pay,” which would be like when you have an issue with your boss so you appeal to their boss, and find out that they’re just as bad except they’re higher in the organization.

What’s your level of tech savviness?

It sounds like the letters are difficult enough to read by eye, and that provides certain challenges for transcription. However, some pre-processing of the image could sharpen that text and doesn’t even require AI.

I can’t really speak for the off-the-shelf solutions available online today because I don’t really use them. They’re virtually all privacy monsters. That doesn’t mean they won’t work or meet your needs, but be aware that if you use them then your great-grandparent’s most intimate accounts would be put on some corpo computer and later used to sell something.

If you do feel comfortable with a little scripting, then I’d recommend OpenCV or similar to sharpen your images and some open source OCR library to do the transcription. I haven’t done much OCR myself, but a quick search suggests maybe Tesseract would be easy to use.

If you’re not into scripting yourself, but that sounds appealing, I’d be happy to take a crack at it. Those documents are important and worth preserving. Note that I only speak/read English though, so I might not be great at assessing the quality of the transcription.

If you don’t feel comfortable sending a stranger your grandparents’ letters then that’s completely fair and understandable. But if that’s the case then I definitely wouldn’t be using an online tool for it

Yeah, I’m not sure this is the generational thing that the author is trying to make it out to be. It seems to me like one of those things that leans on personal preference.

The author’s sample for the behavior of generations is a few anecdotes from personal friends. How many friends does a person have, 3, or 30, or 300? That means n is pretty small when there’s something like 3 billion mellenials

Initial attempts to search for this were frustrated because my search engine kept trying to find rhymes for “FOSS” or “Open Source”

However, I did find an app with credits that showed what libraries it used.

In particular, this one might be up your alley: Carnegie Mellon pronouncing dictionary. It looks like you’d still have to combine it with an existing dictionary in order to find the rhymes, but at least you can get the pronunciation

You’ve found a way to sum up how I feel. I haven’t been able to put it in words, but the place definitely has a different vibe post-ressurection

That’s not to say I’m not happy to see more activity. I just miss the “fantasy retro” computers

Just start WWIII with Canada on a whim.

I live in Canada, please don’t. It’s challenging enough being a neighbour to the US in this political climate, being a vassal would be so much worse.

I’m queer as heck, so if I’m not killed in action it’ll be the camps for me.

Of course, if I am killed in action then I won’t have to worry about how interesting life is getting anymore. Gotta keep an eye out for those silver linings.

I’ve been thinking lately that it would be great if my life was less interesting.

Finally a community to live vicariously through

I love factorio, I have over a hundred hours in it.

I still haven’t launched a rocket yet

Just so you have a heads up:

If you use yt-dlp like a regular user, you shouldn’t have a problem. If you use it to download like a thousand videos at once then YouTube may block you out or rate limit you or something.

If that happens, or that’s your use case, then you may need to use a VPN

This is a mutation of an anti-piracy campaign. The text usually reads “You wouldn’t steal a car” an then asks why you would download a movie.

I would totally download a car though.

I also have a USB stick on my keys. Mostly I keep books I’m reading, favorite movies, stuff like that. Then when I’m hanging out with friends later and we’re talking about what we’re watching I have it all ready to share.

Well hang on, with all the furries that use and contribute to Arch I’m not sure it would pass certification as not using animal byproducts