Had a nice trip out with the Dolphin Mischief RIB from Inverness today, about a dozen dolphins in the area - here's a youngster enjoying a bit of playtime 🐬😍 #dolphin#nature#wildlife
I think this is a different #H5N1 strain, but I am shocked that it killed a #dolphin 🐬! #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 is investigating, but I am hoping that #America 🇺🇸 is not on the verge of experiencing another epidemic.
I missed #KDE#Dolphin's filtering ability in #Emacs#Dired. The dired-goto-file works when you aim at one single file, but it is not enough when you have tens of files and you want to "narrow" your view to files that match certain pattern (regex, glob, or fixed string).
Turns out there is a nice package called dired-narrow that does exactly that with very handy defaults.
#NationalDolphinDay 🐬: #Dolphin Pendant, c.1600 (Baroque)
Netherlandish (?) artist
gold, enamel, emeralds, pearls, H 9.2 cm https://art.thewalters.org/detail/32356/dolphin-pendant/
“This wonderfully flamboyant design is close to the model on the title page of the 2nd part of Hans Collaert's stunning series of pendant designs published in Antwerp in 1582: ‘Virtuosic Designs for Golden Ornaments.’ In the engraving, it’s the god Apollo riding a sea monster, but the similarities remain strong.”
I love how on #macOS when you intend to move a bunch of files to a folder, and when one file with the same name already exists in the destination, you're only given the option to stop the entire thing, to replace the existing file, or move anyway under a different name. Not a single option that just... idk... skip moving that one (or however many affected) file maybe? The best thing is, that stop option, the dialog that asks you gives you a checkmark option to "Apply to all" (unchecked by default) - bcos of this, a user unfamiliar with #Finder's brilliance might assume that "stop" simply means "skip" commonly found on other OS-es including #Windows and #Linux for file operations such as moving/copying, 'cept not, "stop" literally just stops doing anything.
Oh, also, you can't even enjoy what you have found to be so common such as doing a shift-click selection on Finder... unless you happen to be in the right "view" mode. That simple thing couldn't even just... work. I honestly can go on and on about how slow that piece of shit is at performing searches or copying/moving files, or how modifying all the ridiculous preferences take forever bcos they hide in multiple, nonsensical places when on #Dolphin for example, you get one nice menu with sensible tabs and options where you could do wtv needs doing in ~1 minute. Heck, even setting the default app to be used to open a certain file type requires a hidden shortcut that then opens up a stupid looking window at the edge of your screen with tiny af buttons and GOSH I CAN GO ON FOREVER.
Fuck Finder, honestly. I'd take that ugly ass #FileExplorer anyday of the week if it means I don't have to deal with Finder. Thank god I'm a Linux user, blessed with #KDE's Dolphin. I'm almost certain #Apple only hires interns for anything software over there.
A small Dolphin skull - not sure which species, but Bottlenose (Tursiops truncatus) and Common dolphins (Delphinus delphis) are the most common in our waters.
County Clare, Ireland.
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@susankayequinn Congrats for your #podcast! I just listened to the #dolphin ep. I had no idea of #hopepunk before but enjoyed every minute (which is rare!) of your lively, professional, colourful, engaging conversation (comes from my heart, I don't exaggerate).
It was so inspiring for me because I come from the non-fiction side of thinking about the #moreThanHuman world or #interspecies communication. I'm glad that there are so many people in this world opening their minds. You have a new fan.😊
Every summer, the Faroe Islands’ beaches are soaked with #whale and #dolphin blood as hundreds of these majestic creatures are needlessly slaughtered.
Fishers in boats circle the whales and dolphins, driving them into shallow waters before killing them with knives.
The government says it is an Indigenous tradition that feeds families on the islands, but only a handful of locals consume whale and dolphin meat yet they kill over 1000 a year.
Meanwhile, @3dEyes is still busy updating our #KDE applications (#Krita being one of them), thanks to his work I'm experimenting thins on KF6, with the new release for #Dolphin 24.02.0 on #HaikuOS :)
#Linux and #KDEPlasma is a massive boost to the desktop productivity experience. Instead of requiring a ton of third party, proprietary apps, a lot of the "regular" or even "not so regular" things I might need/want to do can be done directly from #Dolphin, the file manager (equivalent to #FileExplorer on #Windows, #Finder on #macOS).
From Dolphin, I could:
Convert documents and slides to pdf.
Convert annoying image (jpeg/png) receipts to pdf.
Convert images into any other image formats you'd need.
Resize images.
Combine multiple pdfs into one, or break one big pdf into multiple.
Rotate any images.
Combine any images (into a collage).
Convert pdfs into images.
Combine multiple images into a gif or video.
Access and use your Google Drive (or most other cloud drives) directly from Dolphin.
Compare the difference between multiple text-based files.
Many more other things really on top of all of the other, more basic things you could do built into Dolphin like its amazing search feature, and the ability to compress/uncompress any formats including rar. I thought macOS was better at this vs Windows, but even then what macOS is able to do (from Finder) isn't even 10% of what Dolphin could. Also, Finder's insanely freaking slow, I'd actually take the ancient File Explorer any day.
This past October, Dolphin turned 20 years old since its initial release to the public as an experimental GameCube emulator. It's been a long ride, with twists and turns. I don't know if anyone back in 2003 expected Dolphin not only to still be under active development 20 years later, but to also support the GameCube's successor...
Prehistoric Giant Dolphin Discovered in the Amazon Forest (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
Visualize a dolphin, but one that’s double the size of an average human. This isn’t a figment of imagination but a reality from about 16 million year
Dolphin Progress Report: August, September, and October 2023 (dolphin-emu.org)
This past October, Dolphin turned 20 years old since its initial release to the public as an experimental GameCube emulator. It's been a long ride, with twists and turns. I don't know if anyone back in 2003 expected Dolphin not only to still be under active development 20 years later, but to also support the GameCube's successor...