Dilman Dila

I Write. I make films. Transmedia artist. My blog @dilman is about my works and life. I daydream a lot and want to be paid for it. Been creating #sff #scifi for long but only recently was BSFA + Nommo Awards + PKD Awards 2024 finalist!

My films #DilmanShortFilms

#fedi22 #filmmaking #writing #writingcommunity #film #writer #filmmaker #solarpunk

East Africa

Avatar: A black-and-white portrait of me smiling like an idiot at the camera. Header: comic page of a woman holding a baby

Website: https://www.dilmandila.com/
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dilstories
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/dilmandila
PeerTube: Dilman Dila (npub1yk0…jf37)

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2026-05-05 06:55:40 UTC

Davinci Resolve keeps adding a lot of AI stuff, but at least for now its all useful tools (apart from that speech generator, which is questionable) and they all work on a local machine, and best of all, its up to the editor to either use them or not. Some are really time savers for budget filmmakers, like cleaning poorly recorded audio (using cheap mics and recorders).
I just hope they stick to AI tools and don't go into generation stuff.

2026-04-19 18:09:13 UTC

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Ha. That is sad. But then you will be at the mercy of the big platforms. I remember when YouTube de-monitized my most lucrative film because of like 3 or so seconds of sex, and it wasn't even explicit. There was no full nudity. Just kissing and simulation of it.
It's indeed tough times to be an artist.
But perhaps there is an age verification plugin that can do the work for you? I'm sure the big platforms rely on automation rather than a human checking each and every customer....

2026-04-09 16:45:17 UTC

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You are just the loudest 😊 I actually know two from Kenya, two from Zim, three from Uganda... Quiet a bit. I don't have their handles off my head

2026-03-28 07:00:11 UTC

People who use email as if it is a social media thing need to go back to kindergarten to study email etiquette. I really hate it when someone "reacts to an email" and the only thing that comes to your inbox is an emoji, like, is this person too lazy or just too unbothered to hit reply and type one word like "thanks" or "received"? Then those who send blank emails with no subject, just an attachment. Mschwwww!

2026-03-22 10:08:07 UTC

This #solarpunksunday check out my new novella, which is on pre-order and due out on 1st July. It's my vision of the future, where I fantasize about a world without central governments, politicians, or capitalism, and it centers on an old woman who has to organize the defense of her #solarpunk nation when a colonizer invades.
The ARC copy is also available free to anyone willing to provide an honest review, even on their own blog.
https://www.ododopress.com/novellas/the-blossoming-of-the-big-tree/
#books #book #bookstodon #scifi #sff

2026-02-23 06:44:45 UTC

Sometimes I think my #solarpunk ideas are very original. Decentralized countries. 3D printers manufacturing anything. Biophotovaltic panels that grow in backyards to power homes. And then I read an article like this and I remember that a lot of other writers like me are reacting to our present dilemmas and troubles, and we probably grew up on the same kind of scifi stories so we most likely end up with the same solutions. See #books to read inside.
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2026/02/solarpunk-sci-fi-books-literary-genres-climate-change-optimism-technology/
#bookstodon

2026-02-11 14:29:08 UTC

Austin Powers aged very poorly. I tried watching it again and not even one laugh. I can't remember what was so funny about it when it had just come out, perhaps the scene in the tent with the lights and shadows, in The Spy Who Shagged Me.

2026-01-27 05:38:26 UTC

Finally got a pic of this fella. It comes every morning to my window, 7am-ish, while I still sleep, to play with its reflection. Its beak taps the glass so loudly that I jump awake, really mad. Its wings flutter and beat like a Hitchcockian demon. The first week it happened I'd think someone was at my door and check, only to find nothing, making me furious. It comes on very sunny days to ruin my sleep but today is different for we had a rainy dawn. I should get a cat to eat it.
#bird #birds
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/115/965/394/341/275/542/original/f8db3a83e478cd80.jpg

2026-01-25 07:11:01 UTC

So in #Uganda they have found a way to deny internet access if you use vpn? I used to imagine VPN's actually hide you from such things. They banned all social media (but I guess the fediverse is not on their crosshairs either because they don't know about it, or its not ban-able due to the numerous sites? So we've been using VPN but now if you have vpn running you don't get any access. This is frightening.

2026-01-10 06:32:09 UTC

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Oh shucks, I don't know why this keeps happening. I don't remember changing any links. Let me fix it in a moment.

2026-01-10 06:20:47 UTC

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I'm bookmarking this, so will surely send you a link once I'm ready, or even email you a copy. I was actually going to ask for beta readers from here since with self publishing I don't have the advantage of an editor giving me feedback, so if you are up for that as well... They are novellas, so quick reads (I hope!)

2026-01-10 05:58:32 UTC

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I was wondering if NetGalley is worth it to promote my book, given that this year I want to get into self publishing... What other platforms are there to reach to reviewers with ARCs?

2025-11-10 19:51:02 UTC

Why do we see typos only after posting the article, yet writing and revising it like a hundred times and they were not visible. ;-((

2025-10-17 08:22:43 UTC

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This feels like a revelation. I'm embarking on making a new film (been developing it since 2018) that is set in the near future in a village (somewhere in Africa) that has achieved this, so would be very keen to learn more to help me with world building, but too bad it is behind a paywall. Know of an alternative I can read into?

2025-10-14 08:54:06 UTC

In 2017 I made my first ever visit to the USA, and while there I thought being a movie tourist (going to places featured in films I enjoyed) would be a nice way to pass the time. One of the films I toured was Annie Hall and it showed me bits of US that I never thought existed. Like Stonewall. Here is my blog about that trip.
https://www.dilmandila.com/annie-hall-showed-me-stonewall/
#stonewall #newyork #newyorkcity #blog #writingcommunity #writing #film #usa

2025-10-06 22:08:26 UTC

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I looked at Trelby, and I think it has the same issue that discouraged me from adopting it why back in 2012: you can't zoom into the page, and yet the work space is a tiny strip in the middle of the screen. The work around seems to be increasing the font size, but that makes it all clumsy. Hope they improve it in future builds.

2025-09-18 21:48:33 UTC

On Sept 12 #nepal saw a new prime minister swearing in, and she was elected using Discord! That left me feeling prophetic for some of my stories, and the feature film I will shoot next year, is themed on direct democracy where every citizen is a parliamentarian they run the country using a social media type of app, and the events in Nepal validate my imagination. I gathered my thoughts in this #blog post.
https://www.dilmandila.com/on-prophecy-and-writing-about-the-future/
#writing #solarpunk #writingcommunity #futurism #sff #art #scifi

2025-09-17 12:43:30 UTC

So updates on #TheNightDancer to which many of you contributed a few months ago. I should have finished it like at the end of July, but well, mocap really bullied me and I gave up on it. I've written something small about it on patreon.
https://www.patreon.com/posts/on-finishing-and-139097498
#film #wip #patreon

2025-09-13 05:50:07 UTC

For a moment I thought this image was a scene in a film like Brokeback Mountain or Moonlight
https://flipboard.com/@aljazeera/sports-2eg6blgnz/-/a-vEPIECdvQ6S_IxZeuhQamw%3Aa%3A3199698-%2F0

2025-09-08 19:44:45 UTC

The #vfx are pleasant! Or was it all practical? Now I want to see this production in a theater!
https://beige.party/@CoachMark/115169026899561591
CoachMark@beige.party - This is mind blowingly good! Too good not to share!
Absolutely brilliant!
Thanks again @OutOnTheMoors for bringing it to my attention again this morning.
https://youtu.be/gbljPQbxtTQ?si=nbVOjrdd9FCOKpbx

2025-09-08 09:01:45 UTC

"The Silicon Valley jerks and their politicians know this on some level, and they can't stand it. They hate artists because great art makes them irrelevant. Great art can inspire millions. It can overturn dictatorships. It can spark riots.
This is what they can't stand. They want all the power for themselves."
The Biggest Problem with AI Art - by Jessica
https://www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/the-biggest-problem-with-ai-art

2025-09-06 20:21:50 UTC

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Thanks! It feels like having a new baby :D

2025-09-04 08:09:52 UTC

When I hear of 15minute or 23minute standing ovation at a film festival, I have many questions. Don't the audience have other films to watch? Was there no other film coming up right after this one? (15-23 minutes is enough time for a short film or two!) And above all, what do the filmmakers be doing while everyone is clapping and cheering for them? I mean, no one has every figured out what to do while they sing for "happy birthday to you" and that lasts like 30 seconds. So many questions!

2025-09-01 16:02:01 UTC

The #peertube instance is still down, with no communication from the admins, and yet I have been using links on that instance professionally, so it's a bit of a nightmare. But well, I decided to host my own, and still experimenting, and finding my way around, but I didn't know it was as easy as setting up your own website! I would have done this way much earlier.
https://tv.dilstories.com/
If only now I can figure out how to customize to my liking..... @npub17gp…7p4g

2025-08-30 04:35:36 UTC

This deserves to be made into a film!
https://thegoatery.dyndns.org/display/8a89e8f8-2068-b193-f503-e99458124895

2025-08-24 20:48:30 UTC

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In my part of the world we believe that mist in the morning is sign of a coming drought

2025-08-01 12:00:44 UTC

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Hmmmm, this is what I address in the story, all these things work in a rural area. You have all the amenities you enjoy in a city. The problem with our society today is we prioritize infrastructure only in the city, mostly for growth of the economy growth, and that leaves out rural areas. So if we fix that kind of thinking, and make villages as comfortable as the city....

2025-07-07 20:15:47 UTC

This is the moment I pull out my hair and scream at #linuxmint I installed DavinciResolve 20 and the renders became unusably slow. I rolled back to 19 and the problem persisted. I tried to install Rocky Linux from Blackmagic and it kept giving me a blank screen, so I decided to fresh install LM 22 thinking it shouldn't be a problem to start from scratch. But now DR19 can't install at all, it says "please install the following missing packages" and I try to and get no installation candidate. 1/2

2025-07-06 06:37:41 UTC

Quiet a depressing article. The sub title should be "how diversity destroyed contemporary art" because this guy seems to have a problem with people of color making art about their experiences, which often is about how the powers have silenced them for centuries. He seems to prefer that they make art, but which is not political, which is safe for people like him, educated in Oxford, to consume.
The Painted Protest, by Dean Kissick
https://harpers.org/archive/2024/12/the-painted-protest-dean-kissick-contemporary-art/

2025-05-24 08:07:08 UTC

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snappy dresser? 😅 I'm not even sure what that means, but I will try to live up to that reputation! Thanks for this!

2025-05-06 05:55:30 UTC

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Great! Hope you enjoy them!
I'm not sure I get what the question is, though. Could you please elaborate? Like, what unique element the story bundle brings or that I as a person bring? In my case I don't really know, I write stories set in the cultures I grew up in and while some of these elements might be unique to others, they are ordinary to me.

2025-05-06 05:17:58 UTC

This story bundle with many African scifi books, including mine, ends in 16 days. If there are any "book influencers" here, or perhaps you want to run a campaign of some sort and need to give people a gift or bonus or something, let me know and I can get you gift codes.
https://storybundle.com/scifi
@npub1ny7…uv57 #writing #writingcommunity #sffbooks #sff #africa

2025-05-05 17:43:37 UTC

I stepped out this evening, after a looong day indoors behind the computer, and was greeted with this sight. Thought I should preserve it 😊
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/456/445/033/351/207/original/32296fe1e669b3b0.jpg

2025-05-01 07:16:46 UTC

If you want to get into African scifi, there is a story bundle with lots of good books on it, including my collection of short stories, Where Rivers Go To Die.
https://storybundle.com/scifi
@npub1ny7…uv57 #writing #sff #sffbooks #writingcommunity #scifi

2025-04-26 12:29:29 UTC

My #wip short film #TheNightDancer is a revenge fantasy based on Luo mythology, with dance as a magical force. I need your help to make it! Even $1 helps for there's no film market here to support #scifi films and the global economy and systems marginalizes us!
I'll share the film free on @npub1jvs…7pgj
There are lots of rewards! my art, short story, novella, short film, graphic novel.
Details and how to donate https://www.dilmandila.com/crowdfund-for-the-night-dancer-short-film
10/1000
#mutualaid #BuyIntoArt #sff #film #art #magic
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/404/233/318/560/931/original/23ae29fdb7e641df.jpg

2025-04-03 09:16:59 UTC

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kickstarter, backerkit, gofundme, they all require someone in the supported countries to create the campaign on my behalf.
I'll investigate opencollective and liberapay. Thanks!

2025-04-03 09:00:32 UTC

This is frustrating. I'm exploring options to #crowdfund for my feature film, but I live in the wrong continent. No platform accepts creators from Uganda/Africa, so I'm stuck with #patreon and ko-fi and the like. I guess my best option now is to create a page on my website and some kind of form to collect details of backers and a button for them to make a donation to the project. Not fun, since I don't have a huge following 😭

2025-04-02 17:09:51 UTC

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Oh thanks! I don't know much about US political stuff, I don't remember if I watched Mr Smith but it's a title that has been flying around.... I might have watched it, will look up a trailer and see if I remember anything. Also, I can't figure out what a filibuster is, though I've gone to wiki pages and all that, it's a concept that's hard for me to grasp. Maybe that's why I'm failing to see the significance of the speech.

2025-04-02 15:28:41 UTC

Someone educate me please. Why do USAians think a 25-hour-long speech is the answer to their problems?
What I'm reading about it is like the final act of a feel good Hollywood movie, where the hero makes a speech and everyone claps and as credits roll we assume the speech fixed everything!

2025-04-02 10:24:56 UTC

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55% of people in the fediverse are depressed. 😭

2025-03-30 03:16:39 UTC

What happens when you join Nicole The Fediverse Chick's discord?

2025-03-29 09:55:55 UTC

For my next short film, I want zombies to be in it, so looking for any assets I can use to create zombies in #blender Anyone know of a good tutorial or product that I can buy and then customize, for zombie skin? #b3d #vfx #cgi

2025-03-26 09:36:08 UTC

I always read ICYMI as "icy me".

2025-03-23 08:12:47 UTC

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how does it look in render view if the Suzanne has a texture of their own, with maybe the eyes popping out? I once wanted to make a monster with eyes all over its body and this seems like the solution 😁

2025-03-22 12:16:11 UTC

Here, again, is a trailer to my short #film Little Red Eve, a #scifi about a scientist who sells her soul to the devil.
I've opened up a shop on ko-fi https://ko-fi.com/s/7ddda58198
and also on patreon https://www.patreon.com/dilstories/shop/little-red-eve-short-film-1336404
so you can watch it, Little Red Eve, and in the process donate to my next film, which is going to be about dancing zombies. I'm sure you'd love to see dancing zombies.

2025-03-18 07:17:08 UTC

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Didn't know you could do this. Looking it up.

2025-03-17 06:20:22 UTC

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The falling bit is the most frightening. The older we grow the less we take such risks 😊

2025-03-17 05:42:13 UTC

I wonder what I can do to learn riding a bicycle. When I was a kid a disability meant everyone actively discouraged me from doing it, though I think I can manage since I ride the exercise bike just fine..... 😊

2025-03-16 12:29:01 UTC

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Ah... This might be a nicer way to deal with it. Handkerchiefs are a bit clumsy 😊

2025-03-16 11:29:43 UTC

The state of my headphones and my current solution to it! Right to Repair!
And to think this pair is hardly three years old... I once had a Sony headphone that I used for about eight years. It still works, might be somewhere in my junk gadget store, but this one which was more expensive is already falling apart.
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/171/860/470/508/923/original/f495d33998c5facc.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/171/860/388/785/941/original/cacdebb225aeac73.jpg

2025-03-15 16:40:10 UTC

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I tried Abbott Elementary but I think it was too American for me to get the humor. I've heard of Severance, so checking it out. Thanks for the suggestions!

2025-03-15 14:24:27 UTC

This weekend is slow and low, just lying on the sofa, unable to work, unable to watch any movie to distract me, unable to read to cheer up, don't feel like going out for a walk but that's perhaps what I should do. Then when I get back, I could use a good thriller series to binge on, if anyone can recommend anything....

2025-03-13 16:42:12 UTC

Who can help edit out my date of birth from my #wikipedia page? Just noticed it is out there and I find it weird. Shouldn't wikipedia by default not allow this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilman_Dila

2025-03-06 16:37:30 UTC

Am I the only one who thought this was a drawing of some kind of penis resting on gigantic testicles?
https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/114115228237261304

2025-03-03 20:44:21 UTC

I don't know why The Wild Robot got an oscar nomination. It's a crappy, generic film, the kind you forget a few minutes after watching it. But it is an indicator of the kind of crap we'll be forced to endure if the AI dudes have their way.
Memoir of a Snail was nice, and not surprised it's the same guy who did Max and Mary. I loved it. Refreshing. They should have made it joint winner with Flow.

2025-02-28 12:15:43 UTC

Trying to understand this #mozilla thing. So if I use #firefox to access my blog and write a post, does the updated policy mean mozilla has a right to use my blogpost anyway they deem fit?

2025-02-27 11:29:37 UTC

Have you seen the trailer of my new short film? Little Red Eve is about a scientist who accepts a morally questionable job from the military, against politicians pushing for direct democracy.
https://video.ploud.jp/w/dy5vgzRNXwRCqW7hYvaq7K?subtitle=en
#DilmanShortFilms #film #scifi #movie

2025-02-24 20:05:36 UTC

Berlin Taxi drivers were weird. They insisted on conversations though I don't speak German or Turkish (most were Turks) and they barely spoke English. They'd ask "Where from?" and once I said UG they'd tell me how they drive US peeps in circles so they pay more, 'coz of Gaza.
But I met an Iranian, spoke English, we talked film. He told me of a director who was harassed for showing her body on screen; in protest she made her next film with full nudity. I sadly didn't get her name. Anyone knows?

2025-02-24 06:52:04 UTC

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oh that was a perfect time to read The Stand. I think the horror was multiplied a hundredfold 😁

2025-02-24 04:37:05 UTC

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I read The Stand when I was about 15 years. Great, long book!
Anna Karenina is another long one I remember

2025-02-19 22:16:14 UTC

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to keyframe opacity, use a mix shader node, with one shader being your material and the other being transparent, then keyframe the values. Not on a computer now to share a screenshot of how easily this can be done but perhaps searching the internet for mix shader node will bring up a tutorial.

2025-02-18 16:01:55 UTC

You people who live in winter countries, how do you pee? I have failed to use the urinal since coming to Berlin, because I have so many layers of clothing I can't just unzip and take out my pee instrument, I have to go inside a toilet and undress before taking a piss. It's so annoying!

2025-02-17 07:44:29 UTC

Are there any good open-source newsletter or mailing list tools that someone can recommend? I met a person who had a newsletter (not sure what service she was using) but she said the costs kept going up and she couldn't afford it anymore, so I promised I'd ask around and see if she can get something good and affordable. I've heard of Ghost, but wonder if there are free ones as well?
#linux #web #webdev #tech

2025-02-15 20:39:35 UTC

My body must be hating me now, for making it jump from the frying pan into the freezer. Even the sunlight is cold here. ;-((

2025-02-15 13:23:50 UTC

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Yes. I came for the Berlinale. I'll stay indoors then, not a fan of cold!!

2025-02-15 12:27:54 UTC

Just arrived in Berlin and finally I experience snow. There was a light fall as the plane landed. Movies made me expect to feel something the first time I encounter snow, oba something romantic? But now that I have I think it's just another kind of rain, one with a lot of fine hailstones.
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/114/007/894/247/922/184/original/e053184e064effe8.jpg

2025-02-08 17:01:06 UTC

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Yeah.... It's ugly on the outside, sweet on the inside.
I think the sore one you got was not ripe. I presume they wouldn't ship ripe fruits far up North since it can go bad, even when refrigerated.

2025-02-08 10:14:10 UTC

Have you ever eaten this fruit?
If not, put it on your bucket list, but be sure to oil your hands and lips before eating it. I forgot and three hours later my lips are still covered with sticky sap.
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/714/060/535/857/original/36ef04ed1aa1ffe2.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/715/799/926/848/original/f1e2d73bdbd103f0.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/716/616/285/569/original/2c6c5868efa45a6c.jpg
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/967/714/373/440/157/original/a8fc79d04f59bfcc.jpg

2025-02-06 15:31:10 UTC

I just received a rejection email with some personal notes (not a form rejection, I mean) and I'm tempted to respond to it, but when I was starting out the golden rule was to never respond to rejection emails. I wonder if that still holds, or if it is okay to tell the editor thanks for those kind words?
#writingcommunity #amwriting #writing

2025-02-03 15:11:42 UTC

We became a victim of the foolery going on in the US. We are a recipient of a grant from an organisation in Europe. At the time of application we budgeted with an estimated exchange rate of 1 Euro to about 4,000 UGX. Today the money comes in, and the bank calls to say the rate has dropped to 3600. That means we get over 10% less than what we expected. The bank official simply said "I don't know what that US guy did, but this is a direct result."
F***!

2025-02-03 06:18:59 UTC

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I did that and set the file paths in Davinci settings to point to one of the drives, so my first instinct was to reset these links to point to the new names, but it only shows the /Home folder. I'm beginning to suspect I might have to first change the names of drives to what I like then re-install Davinci, though not sure it will help.

2025-02-03 06:05:26 UTC

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how Davinci works in Linux. There are other annoying things like Davinci not having a minimize-maximize window option. I have read that using Discs is the same as an entry in fstab, but will try and make changes to fstab and see if there is a diffference

2025-02-03 06:02:38 UTC

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The drives are internal, and I can still find them on the file manager. Other programs like Blender see them as well with the new names. But Davinci doesn't see them at all, so it's not possible to reconnect like in windows after a drive letter change. The only way Davinci sees the drives is if, in Discs, Edit Mount Options, I leave it at default settings, with User Session Defaults switched on. Not sure if this will be the same case with fstab, but I'm beginning to think its /2

2025-02-02 18:14:31 UTC

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Oh thanks! Will definately learn to use it!

2025-02-02 17:58:40 UTC

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I've actually been using linux for almost two years exclusively on my laptop but my workstation still had Windows so I was making the move to switch all work stuff to linux as well.
It's the first time I'm hearing about /etc/fstab Should I learn how to manage it?

2025-02-02 16:43:19 UTC

I'm here cursing #LinuxMint I started a project in Davinci Resolve, edited it without issues for a couple of days, but today I log in and all my databases are offline and I can't figure out why! I thought it was because the project was in an add on drive, but even the Local Database which should be located in /Home can't be located. I th
Migrating to Linux for work is becoming a pain. Not sure there are #filmmakers here who have encountered this issue.

2025-02-02 12:36:54 UTC

Eish! All publishers are closed to unsolicited book submissions. This makes me think of getting the courage to self-publish......

2025-02-01 18:42:35 UTC

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Thanks for the shout out!
And here is a "Hi!" from East Africa 😀

2025-01-30 19:46:52 UTC

"This isn't about China — it's so much fucking easier if we let it be about China — it's about how the American tech industry is incurious, lazy, entitled, directionless and irresponsible."
https://www.wheresyoured.at/deep-impact/

2025-01-28 06:39:35 UTC

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Not everyone lives in the US and some of us already exist under worse regimes, hence the request to CW. What is happening to you is horrible, but hey, there is a whole wide world....

2025-01-26 11:32:19 UTC

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It might be a nice thing if this turned into a kind of global habit, and one night all over the world people sit out to watch a movie or something, the way they do on New Year with fireworks 😊

2025-01-26 06:37:27 UTC

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I sometimes write in what I was feeling when taking the photograph, like one time I took a picture of clouds, and I said something like they looked great when I looked up in the sky and saw them, but the picture is crappy.... I find it fun to add such silly details in the alt text.

2025-01-19 14:36:14 UTC

Hundreds of Beavers started strongly. Its a good comedy with lots of physical gags, and I hear reviews likening it to the classics from the 1920, but I think its not even close to what was achieved back then. This lacks a story and meanders about.... It would have been a green film if it were 40 minutes shorter, and if the makers had a better visial style.
Still its different from what is being produced at the moment, and a good one to chill with on a Sunday afternoon with some beers for laughs

2025-01-16 03:58:16 UTC

"Investigating the human past in this way is not a matter of searching for utopia, but of freeing us to think about the true possibilities of human existence."
An archeological revolution transforms our image of human freedoms | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/an-archeological-revolution-transforms-our-image-of-human-freedoms

2024-12-01 05:20:53 UTC

Watching videos on Tusky is a nightmare. A 5 sec video takes two minutes to play. On the website I don't experience such lag.

2024-09-28 10:27:10 UTC

Bragging time! I miss playing scrabble with people on real boards, and the droid is always whooping my a** but once in a while I beat it. Like here, with my last tiles I played junglist, scoring 212 as it fell on two tripple words and I got a bonus. This gave me victory. (I cheated a bit. I first played jinglist and should have missed a turn when challenged, but I'm allowed to cheat the machine!)
https://mograph.social/system/media_attachments/files/113/214/686/519/722/731/original/ff77991711858786.jpg
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2024-09-15 12:34:33 UTC

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Hehehe! Sounds like one for a jolly comedy! 😁

2024-09-13 10:13:17 UTC

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ooh. I'm just learning of shart, but it is quite close to the past tense of shit (shit, shitting, shat) unless you use shitted?
Anyway, the more the merrier!

2024-09-13 06:57:23 UTC

The word I learned today is "darksome" and for a moment I thought its a variation of handsome, but apparently its in the same category as confuzzled (confused + puzzled), shuck (shit + fuck), chillaxed (chilling + relaxed) for it is coined after dark + sombre. So this gives me the greenlight to create new words, like fanic (fear + panic), smaugh (smile + laugh) and foop (fart + poop) - that last one, why do we always fart and poop at the same time?
#writing #writingcommunity #writerslife

2024-09-13 05:48:23 UTC

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how many of you are there? For some reason I thought you are alone

2024-09-03 18:00:01 UTC

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The dead cat photo will sure send them the right signals 😁

2024-09-01 18:48:11 UTC

I recently tried watching the TV series, What We Do In The Shadows, but found it dreary and couldn't go past episode 1. However the feature film of the same name was a really, really good comedy.
Now I'm watching Ghosts (2021) and Season 1 is so far great! Nice pacing, good humour. At first I thought it was adapted from the 1990 film but now learned there was a British version. I guess I should look for it.
#tv #tvseries #reviews #ghost #ghosts

2024-08-23 19:31:24 UTC

The Brothers Sun is such a big yawn.
#thebrotherssun #review #tv

2024-08-23 05:55:13 UTC

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I think there is a portable version, so perhaps you get that to run along your old version?

2024-08-22 21:14:32 UTC

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I think its invasive in warmer climates.
Thanks for the movie recommendation! Looks like something I'd enjoy 😊

2024-08-22 06:51:59 UTC

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😁 I like the idea. LantanaWorld.
But I'm beginning to see this shrub is like humans, spreading so fast and endangering their neighbourhood.

2024-08-21 05:21:03 UTC

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Yes, they say thats its other name

2024-08-21 05:16:38 UTC

I missed agriculture class at school so when I saw these beauties, I was fascinated. A person I was with said it is called tick berry and is poisonous to humans and animals, but not to birds, and the scifi writer in me imagined a war in which birds use this flower to eradicate pests (humans!) and save Earth.
#bloomscolling #bloom #flowers
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2024-08-20 19:06:12 UTC

It just struck me that its a loooong time since I read a book labelled No.1 NYT Bestseller list. And now that I think about it those books tend to be published by the big guys, and they are always not very deep reads. More like "popcorn movies". A lot of what I read these days is sci-fi stuff, maybe popular in the genre but I don't see them on that list. A lot are published by small press.
#writingcommunity #writing #amreading #reading

2024-08-18 09:55:51 UTC

#silentsunday #breakfast
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