Love this

LMDE because I get the robustness of Debian stable and the quality of life goodies of Mint.

Frankly, I have way more often ended up scratching my head for some cryptic piece of syntax than the opposite. Sure I could sit down and spend the rest of my life learning each language designer’s favourite syntax optimisations, but I kinda don’t want to. I’m a human, not a parser.

And frankly, a good IDE editor should be able to fold/unfold verbose syntax. Better for it then to be there and folded, than for it to not be there and for someone to have to work backwards the intendrd meaning of every single line of code.

I don’t understand why verbose is bad. Verbose is maintainable.

I think that’s exactly the reference here.

Enlightenment has been around for 28 years. This means there is enough adoption for it to keep going on.

Never heard of activism, have you.

I thought it started on October 7.

Sure, but why?

…and my bow

Yes, however scientific papers aren’t always linearly formatted PDFs (eg 2-columns), so pdftotext tends to be brittle.

If you only mean reading a file from a specific selection of text, I’ve never seen something that,

Okular actually does that, and with Pied I can use nice Piper voices, but the controls are very basic (start at the stop of the page, pause, stop).

ReadAloud sort of does but it requires sending the pdf to their website, which is obviously not ideal.

A screen reader reads what’s on the screen. What I’m describing is reading a document. ReadAloud does exactly that for Firefox, I am just asking for standalone applications.

LMDE because it’s Mint and a recent Debian stable.

Arguing for the appropriation of billionaires’ assets is not violence.

Some of those that burn crosses???

So basically, the choice is to spend 12 weeks with those idiots or with your baby? Seems like a no brainer to me.

In absolute numbers, yes. As a percentage of the population, nowhere near.

Because you would refuse you would not be the one asked to do this order. You have a functioning conscience, which makes you unqualified for such a position.

You don’t get my meaning. I’m saying, a single university established this policy, and is getting these results. It’s a pilot project that proves the viability of the strategy, and sets an example that can be followed by many many others.