With decently big icons.
It simply is faster and easier to not have to switch your attention and mouse cursor to the center of the screen after clicking the corner of the screen.
In my view that's the best approach for using the mouse and keyboard. If you use the mouse the menu follows that, not like Gnome where if you pressed the menu icon you'll get a full screen centered menu with apps. Some people are really used with the mouse and for that such a "classic" menu is far better. Your arguments make sense only for when you use the keyboard to open the menu. Also, to have a quick list of apps and categories is super useful when you are not sure what the name of an app is, but you know it is say in Multimedia. I have a bunch of multimedia tools and I want to see which one I am looking for.
After that the focus will be to first make a transcription of the entire monster, to then have others translate it into several languages before the release. Ideally at the beginning of June we will release it on our Peertube with a Spanish, Romanian, and Russian subtitles. Maybe more. Maybe French and German too. Let's see.
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I also realized that some interviews look kinda red-in-the-face and some yellow 😁 . And I may have to take a few days to fix that for all of the parts.
Let's see....
But yeah the documentary is done, except for what I just said.
I really hope the color-fixing won't drive me crazy, but I will do my best to be done in just a few days time. Then send it to all who were part of the documentary. Let's see how it goes....
My laptop also freezes for the past weeks, randomly, when I work on the documentary. I hope it won't go nuts now....maybe be software related, may be hardware although I cleaned it recently...
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ONE MORE LEFT. One more! And I am starting the work on it tonight! #tromstuff
I can't fit the entire timeline in one screenshot but here it is:
Could it be better? Of course. Will I work more on it? Of course not. 😀
2 more parts left. And these ones, from what I remember, are a lot less work. They are together as lenghty as this second part so there is a good chance I am done with them all in less than 10 days.
Excited to be done with it!
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I'm using almost all of the 64GB of RAM 😁. That's a bit extreme but I am doing a lot. The Kdenlive project for the TROM II documentary eats some 30GB already. But why have them if you don't use them? So I am happy I use my new laptop at full potential like I've always done with all of my computers.
The problem was that Friendica only provides an ATOM feed while the plugin we use for pulling these feeds and filtering them, only uses RSS. I found https://granary.io https://github.com/snarfed/granary and open source converter so let's see how that works.
I am getting our tromsite.com more and more ready for the documentary release. I want to make it active again and TROMlive was one of those things that kept the website breathing.
Here:
Not super bad, but still. So it was better than before.
Now when I asked who is Tio, meaning me, here's what it said:
Oh my jizus-christ! So I am Tio Theodoros Mavridis, I am greek, I created the Zeitgeist Movement and the Zeitgeist Addendum documentary among other things.
This chat is the biggest bullshitter in the world. Can be so confidently wrong. It is astonishing.
This software basically puts words together based on what is statistically more relevant, and many times can create wonderfully written sentences while being full of shit. How can anyone simply trust this bullshitter is beyond me. I can ask it about anything and I would have no clue if it is complete garbage or not.
So, what is this crap useful for except funny poems and lame chitchatting?
Very efficient today. Only some 15 more minutes till all is done! Wow...can't believe I am getting so close.
Happy with this last part so far. But I have to be honest, I feel like I can't judge this documentary anymore....after 2 years of editing....idk if it makes sense or not. Regardless I'll finish it haha.
I will continue to work on it these days, more and more.
As you can see we talk a bit about these beauties too 😀 - friendica, mastodon, and the like ;)
Also, god bless the 64GB of RAM:
They do help a fuck lot!
Will I finish this part this month? We shall see! 😀
So maybe I'll take it easier for a few days. Th next 5 or so minutes I should finish in less than a week.
In a way I thought "what if I finish it this month" haha. But then I should not put so much pressure on me. I want to make it very good.
In any case, it is February now and I've already finished 22 minutes out of perhaps 1h, 1h and a bit, of this last part. I think 2 months is more than enough for me to finish it. So, before April. Then in April to do the final edits for the entire thing. And in May to manage to create a trailer and get it ready for the release.
It is looking very promising. ;)
First red box is done, the other one needs to be done 😀
Not bad considering I only started a few days ago with this last part.
So far I like it.
And with a dark theme:
We use XFCE but we struggled to make some scripts to make sure QT and GTK, of all shapes or forms, are properly synced so pretty much all apps look ok on the desktop. From themes to icons and text. From my knowledge and tests no other distro does this. I know it sounds like I am bragging but I am not. I wish all will fix the theming like we did.
Now I just barely started to work again on my laptop after I moved my stuff to it, so this does not reflect the normal use for me, but still almost 30GB of RAM used without VMs and just 1 Kdenlive project open:
Anyway, I like RAMs. And I use them. God bless 😀.
Why is this even a thing? It should be opt-in if you want to be daddying by google and firefox.
Also installing it in a VM, 5 or so minutes. Fast fast fast.
HALF! At times even quicker.
So yeah, that's super cool. I will test these days the rendering speeds for the TROM II documentary, curious about that. But ofc since this laptop has 3 more cores than the previous one, of course it will be faster.
I am so happy with this laptop.