Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: tuubiSimple merging and page shuffling you can achieve easily with pdfshuffler. It has no editing features, but it does what it says on the tin and it does it intuitively. Just drag and drop files and pages, then save the result.

Thank you so much! That's going to be very handy. I just went to install it, turns out my distro has it already installed and I never noticed the thing.

For those who wonder: At least Debian has replaced it by the fork "pdfarranger" (but has a compatibility package with the old name).

Debian also has pdftk, which used to be the go-to tool on the CLI for pdf shuffling needs (it's in java, so I *guess* it would be a bit faster than pdfarranger, which seems to be in python?). Fedora has 'pdf-stapler', which is also in python, which got introduced because pdftk stopped building on Fedora for some reason. That's what I've been using for merging/shuffling.

There's another java program with a nice GUI: https://pdfsam.org/ [External Link]
another one (free as in beer) that comes with a GUI: https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/ [External Link]

-- what I'd *love to* know, though, is whether there exists a program that can edit logical page numbers on pdfs. Adobe Acrobat seems to be the *only* one capable of doing this *without breaking the pdf*. I have the final pre-CC version in a windoze VM (which I have to confess I'm glad I bought, on a really good student discount back in the day), which I hate to have to launch every time I have to fix the pagination on a pdf.

I mean, you'd think that it would be an easy task; but given the horribly convoluted data structures inside a pdf, even *finding* where the pagination info is, & changing turns into some kind of precision surgery. I've used a python library that claims to be able to do this (pylabels); but it keeps breaking the files, to the point that they can't be opened.

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Quoting: Whitewolfe80yet still not one single game set in warring states period in japan home of the Ninja.

That's been a fan request since time immemorial; hopefully the next one will be set in Japan & *they'll end the series*.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: wvstolzing

Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me or is "Assassin's Creed" kind of an odd name for a game about Vikings?

It's the established brand name they slap on top of historical period dramas that probably would fare better without any of the convoluted & incoherent (beyond redemption) 'lore' and backstory that comes trailing behind that name.

I really can't fathom why they think the game wouldn't sell as well without the AC name attached to it; what a bizarre place to look for 'safety'.

It's not like there aren't tons of interesting historical settings where assassins would fit just fine and you could call it "Assassin's Creed" and more or less mean it. You got your original Middle East Hashishin. The glory that was Rome (or shadows behind same); the political mazes of Byzantium. Imperial China. Plausibly the ancient Persian empire. Anywhere urban and sophisticated. Plenty of places you could do franchise entries with actual assassins.
Viking England, not so much.

Since the start, though, their intention has been to make games about dicking around in the open world first, and infiltration/assassination second -- otherwise the stealth mechanics wouldn't have been left so clunky. So the choice of setting was never really determined by thematic & gameplay considerations (let alone concern with a coherent over-arching story).

-- and it doesn't seem like they have a real commitment to the lore/story either; so *that* can't be why they stick to the AC brand. Again, I think the only reason why they insist on it, is that they think franchise sequels are a safer bet, compared to one-off adventures.

... which is strange, again, because they have the Far Cry series (which I haven't played at all) which seems to be doing very well; and that's a brand name/franchise with no forced continuity between the games. The 'historical' action/adventure titles could have followed that model as well.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIs it just me or is "Assassin's Creed" kind of an odd name for a game about Vikings?

It's the established brand name they slap on top of historical period dramas that probably would fare better without any of the convoluted & incoherent (beyond redemption) 'lore' and backstory that comes trailing behind that name.

I really can't fathom why they think the game wouldn't sell as well without the AC name attached to it; what a bizarre place to look for 'safety'.

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Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'd probably buy/play through UPlay/Wine directly, rather than the EGS store or Stadia.

Same here; besides, the uplay store has regional pricing, & whenever there's a major sale on steam & elsewhere, they have an equivalent sale as well.

It's a pity that the windows version almost certainly won't be vulkan based; but I'd *love* to be wrong about that.

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Quoting: wvstolzingdnfdragora is an abomination; but you don't have to use it. Same with any other annoying feature (for me, firewalld is pretty annoying also, since I prefer plain nfstables).

Oh yeah, I definitely can. But as for those buyers of Lenovo ThinkPads… I am not so sure.:S:

Quoting: wvstolzingI'm upgrading right now.

Good luck and happy upgrade to you!

Thanks; nothing seems to be broken yet.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Alm888

Quoting: GuestFedora has been "rolling enough" for me in most ways and not far behind if at all, stable, and has everything I've needed in the repos.

Seriously? Wow! I thought RPMFusion is a must, one can not even watch a video (due to proprietary codecs) with only the base "fedora" and "updates" repos.

Well, I definitely do use RPMFusion. I guess it's fair to call that a 3rd party repo, but especially considering its maintainers also work on Fedora I kinda consider it a part of it at this point.

In the past, rpmfusion sometimes lagged behind distro updates; though for the past several years, upgrades have been perfectly smooth.

Quoting: Alm888Otherwise, a good distro for those who don't mind constant bug-stream and half-broken system utilities. Dnfdragora (current repository GUI, at least as of 30 release) is an atrocity and a crime against humanity, not only it is ugly and counter-intuitive as hell, but it constantly crashes (leaving root-level "dnf-daemon" running in an inaccessible state, still awaiting commands from long gone GUI) and leaks memory like there is no tomorrow (~150MiB for every package list re-build/refresh attempt).

dnfdragora is an abomination; but you don't have to use it. Same with any other annoying feature (for me, firewalld is pretty annoying also, since I prefer plain nfstables).

I'm upgrading right now.

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Since 2016 or so, freetype comes with subpixel rendering on by default. It might seem like a minor point, but it's made a huge difference in the freshly installed default appearance of many distros -- before that, a font rendering experience that was pleasant out-of-the-box was a privilege that Ubuntu enjoyed alone. I mean, I wouldn't want to turn on my shiny new laptop, only to start bleeding from my eyes at the sight of fonts bathed in ugly artifacts.

So, yeah, the 'edge' that Ubuntu did have in the past with respect to the desktop has been dulled a little.

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Sounds like it's been a good partnership too, as Miller said Lenovo has been "following our existing trademark guidelines and respects our open source principles" with it shipping exactly as the Fedora team want.

I wonder what that implies about codecs that come only on the rpmfusion repos. Perhaps those will be enabled by default (you kind of have to, for an all-purpose desktop installation).

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Quoting: ArehandoroThis is great! Although I must confess my addiction to PaperWM: https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM [External Link]

The screenshots on github are really interesting, but is there a video demonstration as to what it looks like in everyday usage? There's nothing on youtube, except for a supremely annoying noisy short thing.

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