RedHat is winds down support for LibreOffice, simulating guitar amps with NAM, spoopy ASCII text with Calligraphy, and mangling video with the recurBOY.
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
02:07 RIP Reddit
05:20 Danger cup
07:19 RH winds down support for LibreOffice
15:15 ASCII art with Calligraphy
18:47 Neural amp thingy
30:00 Mangle video with the Recurboy
Flat Office
- Flatpak will be the recommended way to get / install LibreOffice on RHEL and Fedora.
- The interesting part is
- “We are adjusting our engineering priorities for RHEL for Workstations and focusing on gaps in Wayland, building out HDR support, building out what’s needed for color-sensitive work, and a host of other refinements required by Workstation users.”
- A focus on professional graphics features certainly makes sense.
- Red Hat has been a large contributor up to now, about as large a contributor as Collabora by commits.
- Global menu, Hi-DPI and VCL theming don’t work from the official flatpak on the latest KDE+wayland according to some.
- Another great use of containerized software.
- Using Flatpak apps is a good way to transition apps from X11 to Wayland.
ASCII Art
https://www.omglinux.com/calligraphy-ascii-text-art-linux/
- And speaking of Flatpaks, here is a fun ASCII Art app available as a Flatpak!
- Calligraphy lets you easily turn your text into cool ASCII banners.
- Just type in a word or sentence, like LWDW, select a style, and whala! You have an impressive ASCII Art text that you can use online to impress your friends.
- Or me and Venn in our Discord chat! ;-)
- There are lots of art styles that you can choose from: graffiti, rounded, chunky, dotmatrix, cosmic, mini, pebbles, poison doom (Of course) etc.
- Calligraphy is a GUI frontend to pyfiglet, which is a pure Python implementation of Figlet.
- Figlet is a command-line tool used to generate ASCII text blocks, which I use quite a bit.
- But Calligraphy is easier to use and doesn’t require you to remember the command line arguments for the different art styles like Figlet does.
NAM: neural amp modeler
https://github.com/sdatkinson/neural-amp-modeler
https://github.com/mikeoliphant/neural-amp-modeler-lv2
- If you play guitar or bass you’ve probably played around with amp modelers.
- Up until now that meant breaking out guitarix and fiddling endlessly.
- Until now.
- Neural Amp Modeler is a free amp profiler based on the Neural network emulator for guitar amplifiers and it is available as a LV2.
- You can profile their amps, stomp boxes, and any other gear.
- Or you can browse for other crunchy tunes on tonehunt.
- This thing sounds great and I had a fun time playing with it last week.
- The plugin works with Ardour and Reaper nightly.
- Decision paralysis becomes a thing with a quickness and be prepared to burn and hours tinkering.
Slice of Pi
Psychedelia Pi
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/28/mangle-videos-with-recurboy-and-a-raspberry-pi-zero/#more-591903
https://github.com/cyberboy666/recurBOY
- You used to need a lot of equipment to be a video DJ, and create live video effects in time with hypnotic beats.
- But now you can do it all with a Raspberry Pi Zero and a recurBOY.
- The recurBOY is a Raspberry Pi Zero video instrument, and a modern video synth with all of the bells and whistles, and small enough to fit in your pocket.
- With cyberboy666’s recurBOY you can trigger clips and run shaders to create and manipulate sd video.
- You can have fun mangling video using old school analog psychedelic affects combined with digital effects with its knobs and pots.
- It has four modes: video, shader, effects, and external input.
- Video mode plays videos straight off of the SD card through the recurBOY’s composite video out.
- Shader mode lets you program your own shaders using the GLES shader.
- Effects mode overlays your shaders on the video that’s playing.
- External mode allows you to plug in a USB video capture card or a webcam.
- And you can plug in a MIDI controller and control it all externally.
- The recurBOY uses fully open source hardware and can be purchased as a kit to build yourself for €90, or pre-assembled for only €135 pounds.
- Although, currently it is out of stock.
- The Raspberry Pi Zero is not included due to supply shortages, so you will need to buy one separately when you can find one.
