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I don’t know, but there might be pdf viewers that permit editing layers. Try LibreOffice Draw or gscan2pdf. Maybe The Gimp can do it.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•China’s Abandoned, Obsolete Electric Cars Are Piling Up in Cities
5·3 years agoOnly if it earns a profit.
I don’t know how well it scales, but I find Metro to be rather good. Find it of f-droid. I like that it randomizes the playlist rather than gets the list of songs and applies randomization to the play order. It also shows lyrics at a touch, if they’re in the metadata, and apparently recognizes lyric synchronization if it is there.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Does anyone actually successfully use OSMAnd or Organic Maps for navigation consistently?
51·3 years agoFind someone in your community who has professional map tech skills. That person can get detailed map data from your municipality and upload it into openstreetmaps, and you will then have the best maps :) if you are so inclined, you can learn yourself from their site.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Does anyone actually successfully use OSMAnd or Organic Maps for navigation consistently?
51·3 years agoThe reason you can’t find addresses is likely because the data is not added to the maps in your region. I have similar problems here, though my state got much detail from batch updates last year.
I found a resource that merges addresses into osmand maps monthly, for north america and beyond. Even better, it does so in a way that normal address layout for north Americans can be used when searching.
Here in north america, we search by typing “255 maple street, some town 01234”, while osmand expects something like " USA some town street 123".
You can download merged maps from opensupermaps.com, and find almost any address you seek, then you can navigate. Osmand is pretty good with directions, but sometimes messes up. Magic Earth is better at navigation, and has similar features to Waze. OSMAnd has much greater map detail, where people have uploaded it.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Open Source@lemmy.ml•Does anyone actually successfully use OSMAnd or Organic Maps for navigation consistently?
1·3 years agoI can confirm the experiences of the OP. As for OSMAnd, see my response to the post, which i am writing next.
I use ocrmypdf, after being a bit frustrated with gscan2pdf. There is a simple ui available, but I just created a tiny script that does the ocr , deskew, etc. In one operation with wildcard file selection.
I also installed a jbig compressor that really shrinks images. My processed docs are generally 40% to 80% smaller, and it seems to get better tesseract output than gscan does.
I generally stick with Firefox, but I do have chromite ony degoogled secondary phone as a backup in case something only works with chromium renderer.
A fellow old-schooler, I see! Me too!
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Does anyone know of a trustworthy and curated list of qanon sites that I can use for my pihole(s)?
3·3 years agoPerhaps the curator is running a red herring with the intention or blocking liberal media?
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines
1·3 years agoI was not saying 25 for a dev job, i was saying that for other kinds of work i might be able to get without getting a new degree.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines
1·3 years agoI understand how it works. The fact remains that companies already laid off people because of AI, and until now, I have never been unemployed more than 2 months.
I’ve also never seen a market in which most job posting garner 200 to 500 applications within 24 hours. It is armageddon out here.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•The smart(shit)ification of TVs pisses me off.
1·3 years agoOh, i dunno… my chromecast for tv is holding up okay, and i don’t get advertisements in it’s main ui.
My 2013 LG lcd is doing okay although i brole a bunch of the dots. I will have to replace it soon, and there aren’t any non smart units available. I guess i’ll gave to block the traffic.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Today's Large Language Models are Essentially BS Machines
14·3 years agoI’ve been unemployed for 7 months. Every online job I see that’s been posted for at least 6 hours has over 200 applications. I’m a senior Dev with 30 years experience, and I can’t find work.
I’d say generative AI is an existential threat as bad as offshoring was for steel in the early 80s. I’m now left with the prospect of spending the last 20 years of my work life at or near minimum wage.
After all, I can’t afford to spend $250,000 on a new bachelor’s degree, and a community college degree might get me to $25/hr, and still costs thousands. This is causing impoverishment on a massive scale.
Ignore this threat at your peril.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Maintained Openboard FOSS Keyboard Fork (Android)
3·3 years agoGlad to see it. Is anybody else having trouble with the space bar writing “v” or “c” instead if space? It seems I have to be focused on hitting the bar near the bottom for it to work.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Free and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•App to search Duplicates in Android
1·3 years agoTrue, but I was thinking of something with a GUI that helps one delete duplicates selectively.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Would it be possible (at some point) cool aur by pulling heatenergy from it?
2·3 years agoYou are welcome! You’re making me blush.
MasterBuilder@lemmy.oneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Would it be possible (at some point) cool aur by pulling heatenergy from it?
5·3 years agoHowever you use heat energy to generate other energy, it will not solve the problem of heat being increased in cities. Heat is an end State energy form.
This is why you may have heard the phrase the heat death of the universe. Entropy can be thought of as all energy being converted to heat, evenly distributed in the universe. The best you can do is move the heat elsewhere.
Heat death of the Universe happens when the heat is evenly distributed and there’s no way to move it to produce other forms of energy, like electricity.
Theoretically, heat can be turned into matter per Einstein, but we haven’t figured that out yet.


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