I haven't found anything that can compare with FineReader. Not even close. Possibly some of the online AI/ML OCR stuff that Google provides, but you have to figure out where it is and how to pay for it if you can, I couldn't. Compared FineReader with Tesseract OCR for a pdf/book file, Tesseract sucked.

I'm becoming a fan of Hyprland (and maybe soon Niri) on Linux. For CLI/TUI apps/editors and GTK browsers it's all great. For multimedia apps it's still bad and slim if you use Apple/Adobe/Affinity multimedia apps (yes Affinity can run but via ugly Wine hacks that normal people won't put up with). Linux on the desktop continues to suffer from many of the same problems as it has for decades: - Inconsistent windows controls, window corners, menus, context menus, controls, tabs, overall appearance across the myriad toolkits (gtk3 vs 4, qt 2 vs 3 vs 4 vs 5 vs 6, wxwidgets, and a bunch more). - Weird behaviors for some aspects of some toolkits under some window managers/desktops. For ex. specifically the File menu of Gimp and a few other apps (gtk2/3?) doesn't respond properly, sometimes takes several clicks, doesn't open when moving from a different menu to the File menu. Weird AF. GTK 4 apps don't have this issue. - Ugly mix-and-match of apps across multiple toolkits is required for many users. No there is no GTK version of Davinci or many other multimedia apps. No there is no QT version of gnome-anything. - Compared to MacOS peers, Linux GUI apps are often significantly less featured with significantly fewer settings and controls: Apple Podcasts vs. any Linux podcasts app (not even close). Mac RSS readers (Reeder, NetNewsWire etc) vs Linux ones (not even close). Screenshot apps (CleanShot * PixelSnap) vs. KDE's thing or a few GTK/QT ones (not in the same galaxy). Mac Unite/Unite Pro appifying utils vs. using some Linux browser to create an "app" page (not even close). Mac audio control/routing/casting apps (Airfoil, Audio Hijack, Fission, Loopback, SoundSource), Linux has nothing close to the functionality and polish of any of these, it only has a few ugly pipewire UI's. And many dozens and hundreds more. This is not to crp on Linux desktops, for a lot of things esp. development it's awesome, but for multimedia and for peak GUI app design with huge feature sets the Mac is unmatched, despite the ugly stupid turn Liquid Glass took (I'm staying on the older OS indefinitely).

Powered by the explosive energy of 2 million street-shitters dealing with the inevitable "output" of their $1 street-vendor lunchboxes. Impressive parallelism in action. Watch on YT, obv. don't visit the country that generates next day organ transplant appointments via white vans that show up to take you or anyone unpleasant to the regime to the final destination. Watch that first step into any Chinese elevator, they're "serviced by" scammer maintenance co's that take pictures of their work with cardboard cutouts while doing no actual service. Do NOT search for "China elevator accidents" or "China elevator drops with person inside" or "person drops into China elevator shaft" or "elevator door opens to shaft causing person to fall and achieve their un-alived status" or "craziest China accidents" - you've been warned.

BYD (build-your-nightmare-flaming-locked-incineration-coffin) is now designated by the US as a military-affiliated Chinese company. Of course they are, all Chinese companies are, by law and by actual fact. If you ever try to do something as "simple" as setting up an AWS VM in China it will require an in-person visit to a Chinese police station in China, and the Chinese security forces will require having a nice telephonic chat with them to tell them exactly how you plan to use this vm and what your company is doing in China. Because "AWS China" is actually a Chinese company operating in the name of AWS it's how it works. This incredible BYD generosity of building thousands of charging stations has nothing to do with spying and data collection all over Europe. Bugging the UK PM's car with a tracking device was completely accidental. Buy these beautiful cars and charge at their beautiful charging stations, it is a beautiful dream you will be living. Also go visit the beautiful high-rises in China travel their beautiful fast trains and cross their beautiful bridges, you will love the infrastructure if you make it back out alive.

For whoever still uses that POS site for 150 year-olds. Don't use that POS site. Avoid their other POS'esses WhatsDumbFapp and InstaFart as much as you can.

Get rid of all this garbage already, the only use for these bullshit imaginary "currencies" is to facilitate international crime and violence. F all of this, it's all worth 0, the same as the pink ponies in your dreams.

Researchers say keep funding our alarmist bullshit so we can keep pushing a lot more of it. We were all supposed to be dead already from the heat back in 1976. China building new coal plants every day? Totally cool. Third-worldists dumping their trash into the trees the oceans the rivers the buildings the neighborhoods totally cool it's just what they do, you judge-y fool. What's not cool is plastic straws and gas cars that won't burn you and your family alive while you scream about your virtue and allyship.

We're firing a bunch of people we're hiring a bunch of people small is out big is in (previously: big is out small is in), same sht on perpetual repeat, who cares.

Of course you don't own or control digital games in any way. You never did. They just altered the deal to make it more obvious, same as when Nintendont introduced their stupid "digital gamecards" to make switching between multiple consoles even more dumb stupid and terrible. Future access to the digital games you purchased and "own" will require piracy.

Yes they envy POS Chinesium e-waste that blows up on the road or loses an axle or spontaneously combusts. At least in China these vehicles come with the scene management crew that surrounds grisly accident theaters with a barrier to prevent social media posts and scrubs all online info about these fatality machines. You don't get that in other countries for free.

Workers and more generally humans who think using bullshit generators and becoming one themselves makes them smart might actually be very, very stupid. Huge insight.

More China slop with big promises that will steal your data and biometrics. Cognitive warfare let's go. Tik Tik Tok Tok.

Hopefully it will first replace the "Yang Gang's" fatuous sycophantic work along with Yang's own dumb-ass role as purveyor of useless and weird failed libertarian progressive political slop intended to advance Yang's "personal journey" and his big stupid ego and personal power.

Using fear to advertise how "scary and powerful" some particular product it to get more people to check it out? We'll eventually find out whether any of this is actually scary because no one will ever stop working on the stuff.

Because they have to pretend solar and wind garbage is awesome and amazing and look how we're using it so that luxury belief morons in other countries will buy their crap and have exploded carbon fiber blade particles and windmill fluids pollute their lands. Meanwhile China keeps building the cheapest dirtiest coal plants on the planet in order for their slaves to have 'lectricity to build more crap trinkets. And China doesn't give two turds about the environment and neither do all the people including all of us who buy their crap and don't ask too many questions.