Is that a sacrificial chair, and the rest of the furniture is spotless, or does that happen to everything?

Did you give them a “human-style bath” with a bowl of water and soapy stuff, or did you give them a “cat-style bath” by licking them clean with your tongue?

Firstly, great guide image at the top there. Very useful, thank you :)

Secondly, that AI slop article is hilarious.

“Cut the shampoo into manageable portions” :D

You may already have the answer from the other comments - but specifically for subtitle transcription, I’ve used whisper and set it to output directly into SRT, which I could then import directly into kdenlive or VLC or whatever, with timecodes and everything. It seemed accurate enough that the editing of the subs afterwards was almost non-existant.

I can’t remember how I installed Whisper in the first place, but I know (from pressing the up arrow in terminal 50 times) that the command I used was:

whisper FILENAME.MP3 --model medium.en --language English --output_format srt

I was surprised/terrified how accurate the output was - and this was a variety of accents from Northern England and rural Scotland. A few minutes of correcting mistakes only.

At their heart, most distros are approximately “made of the same stuff”. There’s differences in package management in the background (e.g. how the “software centre” works), but essentially the difference between a “gaming distro”, “normal distro” and “creative distro” is just what programs are installed by default, and how a few things are set up by default.

Nothing stops me playing games on Mint (and historically, Ubuntu and Ubuntu Studio) - and likewise, nothing will stop you installing office programs, audio/video/graphics programs etc on something presented as a gaming distro.

My cats won’t go anywhere near my wheel-and-pedals computer since the wheel surprised them with its “power on calibration”, where it quite noisily suddenly spins itself all the way left and all the way right.

There is just one incredibly long cat, climbing through a hole in the sofa.

This is brilliant and inspiring. I’m so thankful for people like this, using their skills for the benefit of everyone.

At that age, kittens will hiss at every smell that’s not their siblings or mother. If you keep up being near them as often as possible, they’ll soon get used to you.

There’s quite a lot needed from peripheral manufacturers, regarding drivers and utilities. You still can’t, for example, just buy any new printer or scanner - you have to check compatibility first.

Here is an example of the discussion stage:

The actual sleeping stage was just a pile of multi-coloured fur.

We think one of our cats thinks he’s a human, whilst believing his sister and two brothers are still cats.

“Mama! Papa! one of those cats is trying to get into our bedroom and sleep on our human bed for humans”

Did it work?

This is brilliant. Such a useful website, I’m surprised it didn’t already exist.

Thank you for doing this!

Rest assured that sometimes only half the text gets pasted.

I think everyone’s got the CAD/3D programs covered, so a slightly “out there” answer:

If you’re just doing 2D blueprints for yourself, do you actually just need a 2D vector program for doing a scale drawing with measurements?

I’ve done a lot of floorplans / layouts/ site maps etc using Inkscape, for instance.

It depends on exactly what you’re wanting out the other end - so you may be lacking a lot of the features in a full CAD program, but the learning curve is comparatively so shallow that you might have a working plan by the end of the day, rather than the end of the month.

You say “best”, “highest performing” etc, but we asked a panel of immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders who their ideal upper management employee was - and they unanimously suggested other immorally wealthy, elderly white male sex offenders, and suggested that employing anyone else is a DEI hire.

It’s hard to tell. I hope somebody has left a trail of single notebook pages, diary pages and dictaphones scattered in various drawers and cupboards nearby.

Also available on Kobo (Canadian Company) as an e-book. It does contain Adobe DRM though, so you would need to remove that with Calibre if you want to keep it on other devices.

I really appreciate you taking the time to show the step-by-step process of the construction. Very well written and informative :)