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  • I still rock XMMS almost every day. It simply does the job I want it to do and it's so lightweight it might run on a toaster.

    If you want something more modern, qmmp should be great.

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    Why do we glorify horrible people from the distant past?
  • You should be more worried about why we glorify horrible contemporary people, or from the more recent past. Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Donald Trump, Ellen DeGeneres, the list is endless. There are a lot of people that even glorify Hitler himself.

    And wrt Alexander the Great, having killed a lot of people does not make a person horrible. My grandfather killed a lot of people, probably hundreds. He never wanted to talk much about it. He was a great guy and a hero. Alexander the great killed a lot of people, but in doing that he eliminated the enemies of his people. He is recorded in history for spreading civilization, arts, education. He founded many cities that flourished, some of them even stand today. He freed a lot of cities that were ruled by his people's enemies. His conquests are one of the major reasons modern western civilization exists. He did all that as a military leader and he killed a lot of people.

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    Any FOSS Framework currently maintained to develop interactive fictions?
  • You can look into inform6 and inform7 (totally different beasts, they are not older/newer versions of the same thing), TADS, or something like Quest perhaps. There should be more but these are the first that come to mind.

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    Are there any downsides to using Homebrew as a package manager on Linux?
  • Last time I checked, homebrew on Linux only included cli apps. GUI apps are only available on mac. So you couldn't use it to install a browser anyway.

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    Raspberry Pi 1 B projects?
  • No, the original Pi B can play 1080p video just fine. The video is not decoded by the CPU. H264 and older codecs play just fine. It cannot handle h265 videos as it doesn't have a hardware decoder for those. Kodi works just fine in fact. The interface is a little bit slow, but actual video playback is fine.

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    Need help to crop border from a bunch of GIFs
  • for i in $( ls *.gif ); do fmpeg -i $i -vf "crop=w:h:x:y" cropped_$i; done

    This runs on Linux/Mac or on WSL on windows Make sure there are no spaces in the filenames.

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    What is your favorite domain name provider, and why?
  • I've been using namecheap for about a decade too. But, be careful with their free email forwarding service. They do not forward all emails. The ones that they consider spam, they proceed to drop silently. There is absolutely no way to access those emails. The service is essentially useless. I have lost several important emails like that.

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