Monitoring bandwidth from the command line, 21st century hipster-pixels, laptop killing USB cords, and GIMP learns an important lesson.
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Timestamps:
02:55 GIMP in 2020
06:20 KDE 2020 roadmap
09:30 Blender highlights of 2019
14:00 Linux USB kill cord
17:00 Hipster ANSI
20:20 Bandwhich monitor
22:45 Killing USB hum
28:15 Self-driving car kit
30:55 Emails
Colour key – Venn Jordan Pedro
- This starts off with a real lesson learned.
- While the GIMP was making regular updated none of them made it to stable.
- This made the project look stale and contributions started to dry up.
- Makes sense, if you contribute something you want people to use it.
- So going forward GIMP will be pushing out stable releases on a regular schedule.
- You can contribute to all aspects of GIMP development, including code, UI/UX design, creating plugins and effects and, yes, help with documentation!
- And one of the most important, using GIMP to create artwork and telling people about it!
- The KDE roadmap for 2020 looks bright. Here are some of the features that we can expect to see, are likely see and possibly see this year.
- The KDE I/O file library and Dolphin only has a single patch left to turn privileged escalation on, so you don’t have to run Dolphin as root to move, create, rename etc. root-owned files.
- I knew this was a problem but should be fixed this year: Auto-rotation for tablets, convertibles, and other hardware with rotation sensors.
- And likely: Continue KDE’s Consistency of unification of the apps and user interface by implementing more of the proposed visual design changes to the Breeze style, Plasma and KDE apps.
- Better wallpapers in the extra wallpapers repo!
- Per-screen scale factors on X11 could become a thing.
Blender 2020 (Mfoxdogg)
- Blender has had an amazing year, and with the release of Blender 2.8 in October, made Blender a game changer in the industry.
- Here are some of Blender’s top highlights:
- Ton Roosendaal receives a ASIFA-Hollywood Annie Award for Blender.
- The release of the Spring Blender open movie.
- Received an Epic Games Mega Grant.
- Ubisoft and other major studios using Blender.
- SIGGRAPH Los Angeles, Blender was now a first class citizen at the world’s largest animation convention.
- And with the advent of the Academy Software Foundation Blender became the go to for open source animation projects.
- BusKill is an ingenious and inexpensive way to protect your laptop.
- It triggers xscreensaver to lock the screen every time any USB drive is removed.
- You could set the trigger to do other things like shut down the machine.
- All the parts can be had for $20 to $45 depending on your needs.
- My only worry is that I might forget that it is on my laptop and accidentally activate it myself by moving away.
- I like this in theory but we all know it ends up with your laptop on the floor.
- It’s a bit on the tame side compared to Silk Guardian.
- Something that wipes your ram, deletes precious files, and turns off your computer.
Chafa terminal animation (Rtheren)
- Chafa is a command-line utility that converts all kinds of images, including animated GIFs, into ANSI/Unicode character output that can be displayed in a terminal.
- Remember the BBS days? :-D
- ANSI art is a computer art form that was widely used at one time on BBSes. It is similar to ASCII art, but constructed from a larger set of 256 letters, numbers, and symbols, and was used in MS-DOS and Unix environments.
- Chafa is highly configurable and supports alpha transparency and multiple color modes (including Truecolor, 256-color, 16-color and simple FG/BG.)
- I had fun converting a running unicorn to 256, 16 and 2 color output!
- It is amazing how fast it is, instantaneous! I used to wait quite a long time back in the 386 days to convert my artwork to ANSI graphics!
- Bandwhich is like htop or top for networking.
- CLI utility for displaying current network utilization by process, connection and remote IP/hostname.
- It will also attempt to resolve ips to their host name.
- Simple (and cheap) hardware for your home studio to get rid of those annoying buzzes and hums.
- Also included are two things that people claim fix ground loops, but don’t.
- There is a new video in the sires for Patreons covering multitrack recording with OBS using your existing equipment.
Slice of Pi
- The Review video on the page uses our LWDW opening music for their intro ;-D
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