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  • Mieruko-Chan, or Girl who can see it

    It’s a comedy/slice of life (imo) with horror aspects. A girl is suddenly able to see spirits/ghosts one day, and tries her best to pretend she doesn’t see them. I love it because each arc and Mieruko’s intentions are so wholesome & end in building way more on spirits’ rules and lore. The first few chapters do play on echi themes, but the author finds his footing for a plot once the first antagonist appears. Antagonist is not the right word, but I don’t want to spoil character development details much. :x





  • TLDR, scroll down to the script. Make a .sh file, allow it to run as a program, set it as your default program to open whatever filetype

    Navigate to the appropriate/your favorite folder to store portable applications. Make the below script as a new file called WhateverYouWant.sh
    Fellow newbies, the .sh is important.
    Then set this .sh file’s permissions to allow executing this file as a Program; may differ by distro.

    #!/bin/bash

    # Script to set a windows application (that runs through WINE) as the default to open PDF files:

    # PURPOSE: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style
    # to pass as an argument to wine when starting PDF XChange Viewer
    Filename="z:"${1//\//\\}

    # Assuming you use the default installation folder for PDF
    # XChange Viewer in Wine
    App='eval wine "C:\Program Files\Filepath\To\Your\PDFXEdit.exe" "'$Filename'"'
    $App

    # Adapted originally from:
    # http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
    # Archive.org'd at: \https://web.archive.org/web/20160918205551/http://sodeve.net/2007/12/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
    # Additional credit in 2024:
    # https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=153092
    # https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210206/http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=173574#p173574
    # https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210203/http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/

    You can also check the appropriate windows-formatted filepath with Winetricks, using its built in windows File Explorer, finding your .exe, and copying the path starting from "C:".
    [Edit: the default install folder in the script would normally be C:\Program Files, my bad. I downloaded the portable version and shoved it wherever, so my filepath looks like “C:\users\Froggy\Documents\PDFXchange test01\PDFXEdit.exe”]

    Mint Cinnamon 21:

    • right click your shell script file, Properties > Permissions > check on “Allow executing file as program”.
    • Then find a PDF file (or whatever filetype), right click, Open With > ‘Other Application…’ > browse for this .sh file you just made.
    • After selecting this .sh file, be sure to select “Set as default” before clicking OK.

    I could not tell you for the life of me why this didn’t work with a .desktop file on Mint 21.

    I spent the past few hours down the wrong rabbit holes with .desktop and exec=wine ‘filepaths’ and just about died of asphyxiation from absolutely nothing happening. I’ve been wanting to do the same thing too for a while, but decided that right before bedtime was the perfect time to look it up.
    [Edit: I figured out spacing in the script. Also moved the Mint specific instructions down the comment for flow clarity]


  • “I never learned or thought about how long my trash will actually insist on existing and polluting my environment. I’m completely ignorant of how incredibly slowly plastic decomposes and how toxic it is for plastic to leach into the lowest parts of the food chain and concentrate on its way up.”

    “AFAIK, because the earth will take care of it somehow - everything turns into dirt when you leave it in the dirt long enough, right?”

    “I’m just sooo ignorant, plastic will just break back up into little plastic fibers and the ocean can recycle it for us, like tree bark or w/e, right?”

    That’s my best, but still invalid, justification. What do I win ::: spoiler spoiler /sarcasm (I hope this spoiler works bc it’s not working on boost) :::







  • So this reminds of this book I read called The Circle, in which everyone’s fascination with technology and tracking and data collecting slippery-sloped at breakneck speed into 1984, except any stranger with an internet connection became your Big Brother.

    We have many other environmental ways to encourage people to drive slower, like narrower lanes, or those long thin rumble-strip-style speed bumps, or landscaping with greenery.

    BTW, why is it so hard to get information off google on traffic calming studies for freeways? Everything is about urban or suburban areas, smh. When I use “freeways” in quotes, suddenly I get a whole bunch of irrelevant results about people trying to get over their fear of driving on the freeway. Wtf google.