when I used an old laptop I relied on https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/ nowadays KDE is good enough for with its shortcuts (e.g. meta + arrows) and KWin scripts.

I’m new to Linux from about 3 months ago, so it’s been a bit of a learning curve on top to learning VE haha. I didn’t realize CUDA had versions

Yeah… it’s not you. I’m a professional developer and have been using Linux for decades. It’s still hard for me to install specific environments. Sometimes it just works… but often I give up. Sometimes it’s my mistake but sometimes it’s also because the packaging is not actually reproducible. It works on the setup that the developer used, great for them, but slight variation throw you right into dependency hell.

I can’t remember how I installed Whisper in the first place

Typically however you want and if not https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/releases

I don’t. That’s the entire point about having different mailboxes in the first place : they stay isolated and I manage notifications (or not) exactly how I want, when I want.

suddenly it hit me. Im on linux I can do a lot of this easier with the command line.

Nice, you get it! You have so much to learn so don’t be afraid of taking notes. The CLI and the UNIX philosophy are very powerful. They remain powerful decades after (from desktop to mobile with e.g. adb on Android to the “cloud” with shell via e.g. ssh) so IMHO it still is a good investment. Still discovery can be tricky so be gentle with yourself

Also few tricks that can help you go further faster :

• take notes (really! can be a .txt or .md file or a wiki page, entirely up to you)
• consider aliases or .bashrc to keep your shortcuts and compose
• stop typing the same commands again, instead reverse-i-search with e.g. Ctrl-r
• TAB autocomplete (as suggested after)

Anyway, enjoy it’s an adventure!

I’ll be checking over the subtitles anyway, generating just saves a bunch of time before a full pass over it. […] The editing for the subs generation looks to be as much work as just transcribing a handful of frames at a time.

Sorry I’m confused, which is it?

doing this as a favour […] Honestly I hate the style haha

I’m probably out of line for saying this but I recommend you reconsider.

Exactly, and it works quite well, thanks for teaching me something new :)

There’s no getting around using AI for some of this, like subtitle generation

Eh… yes there is, you can pay actual humans to do that. In fact if you do “subtitle generation” (whatever that might mean) without any editing you are taking a huge risk. Sure it might get 99% of the words right but it fucks up on the main topic… well good luck.

Anyway, if you do want to go that road still you could try

• ffmpeg with whisper.cpp (but honestly I’m not convinced hardcoding subtitles is a good practice, why not package as e.g. .mkv? Depends on context obviously)
• Kdenlive with vosk
• Kdenlive with whatever else via *.srt *.ass *.vtt *.sbv formats

Related documentation https://develop.kde.org/docs/apps/dolphin/service-menus/

Oh…, that’s neat thanks!

So in my use case I made a template for prototype metadata, add a menu action could be to generate the file instead of creating from the template via Exec= field. This would prepopulate the metadatafile with e.g. the list of selected files thanks to %F.

Neat! Thanks I

• created ~/.local/share/templates/
• relied on examples from /usr/share/templates for .desktop files
• linked back to the actual template file in ~/Templates and finally now getting :

fixed icon

Sorry typo, it’s indeed ~/Templates (even verified to be sure but even has a specific icon), was already there, I didn’t create it. So unfortunately still does not work.

Creating a .prototype file in ~/Templates didn’t work for me on KDE Plasma version 5.27.5.

Because it’s my own filetype I added it in “File Associations” known types in text category, to open with Kate, Gvim, etc, just in case, but didn’t help.

Is something else required?

None of your requirements are distribution specific. I do all (Steam, non Steam, Kdenlive, Blender/OpenSCAD, vim/Podman, LibreOffice, Transmission) of that and I’m running Debian with an NVIDIA GPU. Consequently I can personally recommend it.

Maybe my https://fabien.benetou.fr/Content/BuildingAComputer could help.

I also answered your question in https://lemmy.ml/post/38363131/21987482 but it’s intertwined.

I wouldn’t “teach” them what a computer is, I would co-explore with them instead.

Plenty of good resources shared and I’d add

• the very tangible https://spike.legoeducation.com/ which isn’t cheap but IMHO well worth it
• ScratchJr
• OctoStudio on a normal phone or tablet, imagine Scratch but easier onboarding and more creative, easier for younger kids, great UI to do so on the go, e.g. waiting for a flight
• Beyond Coding, How Children Learn Human Values through Programming by Marina Umaschi Bers
• KIBO Robot https://sites.bc.edu/devtech/kibo-robot/ specifically aiming kids as young as 4yo
• shameless plug, my own work https://nlnet.nl/project/ImmersiveXP/ but very experimental

… and yet, all that being said and done the deeper question IMHO is why?

The word “syntax” should not be taboo. Grammar should also not be something to ignore. In fact if you consider Umaschi Bers, Papert, or Alan Perlis’ “A programming language that doesn’t change the way you think is not worth learning.” the crux is why learning programming in the first place?

Are you creating yet another developer or rather are you helping someone to explore what even programming is? What building things mean regardless of what tool they use? What is a language?

of course the former is more pragmatic but the later IMHO is much more interesting and will probably keep them learning for their entire life. It probably also will, as a side effect, teach the former.

Far from me to try to bash a suggestion’s on one’s head but ^rpg or ^r<process-name> (for reverse-i-search) is probably quite fast, obviously depends entirely on your typical usage. Hard to do less than 2 keystrokes I admit.

I always killed processes with ps -ef | grep <process-name> and then kill <pid>

you could check pgrep <process-name> too

Make sure to properly reset the devices, both BT on desktop, not just unpair but removing past pairings, and headsets.

Also try pairing with something else, e.g. mobile.

Unfortunately as I don’t know why it worked I can’t help more than that, best of luck.

Happened to me with another brand and model (can’t recall which to be honest). It did pair but appeared as a generic BT device, not headphones, and thus was totally useless.

I was pissed.

Then… I pair with something else, not a computer but something simpler, maybe a phone, I can’t remember, and it worked. So I was shocked, how can for this it works, clearly no driver installed on top and not my desktop?!

Anyway long story short I tried again few more times and it worked. Headphones were now pairing as headphones.

I can’t explain why but my point is, I wouldn’t give up. I would retry to pair few times (I know, sounds ridiculous, and yet…) without changing anything.

PS: if you know the ins and outs of the BT stack and it makes sense to you, please do explain! I’d love to learn