So free software is actually about freedom, huh.

That’s Alpaka 0, Alpaka 1 seems to be in stock.

Edit: also https://inputlabs.io/contribute/open_source

You know what can’t be scalped? Open source: https://inputlabs.io/

Since it’s called the GNU Image Manipulation Program, why not pick up the extremely low hanging fruit and call it GNU Imp? It also comes with a free mascot.

Edit: And given that Wilber already has a cheeky smile and two horn-like ears, it wouldn’t even be that much of a new mascot either. I mean come on people, do I have to think of everything around here?

Games have just become too political. In the good old days we could play Castle Wolfenstein without all the woke stuff. /s

Here: https://huggingface.co/common-pile

In fact, “computers” were women whose job was to do calculations in the era before electronic computers.

A heads up that, in 2026, a 70 year old grandmother could just as well have had a 30-40-50 year career in computing. Don’t use grandmothers as the go to trope for tech illiterate users :)

Love this

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

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.

Sure, but why?

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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.