I made the switch almost a year ago when they started announcing all the spyware coming to win11. The distro you choose matters a LOT. After several that were buggy and frustrating I landed on Garuda dragonized. Setup was easy with their assistant finding the drivers I needed and I have yet to have any system breaking updates. Better track record than windows TBH. Performance is great, and steam integrates so well with proton that my experience is honestly just as good as windows native. I should probably go make a donation to the Garuda project, now that I’m thinking about it.

Fox “news” themselves claim to be an entertainment program, not a legitimate source of news

I’ve never tried it, but my father tells me that if you use ABS and include the ASIN in the metadata there’s a tool (possibly built in?) that can fetch chapter timestamps

I use StoryGraph for my personal library management, but Goodreads simply has better coverage of both total books and specific metadata. But Audible is the best source anyway, as it has data specific to the audiobook other sources rarely do. I’ve included Goodreads mostly as a fallback for books Audible doesn’t have listed. One of the roadmap items is to add other sources, like Google books. At that time I would consider a source separate from Amazon/Google if a quality one can be found and conveniently called/scraped.

Metadata is written to the file at the time of operation, so Goodreads failing would not affect any existing metadata sourced from it. But Audible is the preferred source anyway, as it has metadata specific to the audiobook typically not available in Goodreads. I’ve included it as a backup for books (mostly older ones) that are not available on Audible. Goodreads allows user submissions and thus has just about every book available in its library.

It can do some metadata matching, but to my knowledge it doesn’t do any of the big ticket items like combining chapter files

I was alive for but don’t remember 9/11. Some might call me a Zennial.

Good old fashioned RPGs and tower defense reign supreme on long hauls. Not sure if they’re on steam, but for TD the kingdom rush games are excellent. For RPG, bravely default 2 is a personal favorite. If you don’t mind a game leaning difficult.

Edit: oh, and Balatro! Balatro and kingdom rush 5 got me through two 11 hour flights when I traveled overseas.

Well, if he walks like a duck and talks like a duck…

This just in: studies show heavy correlation between money laundering and shrinkflation

When content is low quality, posted to the wrong community (usually intentionally), trolls. Basically anything that I feel shouldn’t exist. The content that I believe takes value from people’s lives instead of adding it. If I find content that I dislike but believe adds value to other people, well that’s what the block/ban features are for.

Right now, until next month’s mortgage payment comes due. Every time I get something in the emergency fund either an emergency happens or a maintenance that will be an emergency if ignored. Just ordered a new set of car tires about an hour ago, as it happens.

Depends on the source and the weight of the claim. My fattest friend tells me the new Italian place slaps? Fact. The smartest person I know tells me there’s a newly discovered planet? Worth looking into if it comes from them, but I’m skeptical.

This term definitely isn’t deprecated or insulting? Most colleges in my state have an NAACP branch. They have career fairs and all sorts of events under the name. This may be regional though. I suppose anything can be considered an insult if you say it in a certain way.

Shame this is Lemmy high quality memes and not Lemmy shitpost, quality shitpost.

I tried kde neon on my gaming PC and had endless issues. They don’t test their releases well and Nvidia drivers had a lot of problems. I’m using garuda dragonized right now (arch based) and really enjoying it. It’s highly optimized for gaming, to the point of having its own fork of proton. It also uses KDE plasma desktop, so a very similar user experience.

Nathan fillion! His brand of humor and delivery consistently hits just right for me.

When I graduated college my (country, but well spoken) parents wrote me a card in the most backwoods hick spelling and grammar they could come up with. Fun memory.

I’m actually a bama boy myself! White sauce is great on wings, not so much on a sandwich. I’ll check out that columbia gold.

He is clear on it, he just doesn’t want to admit it