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Oh shit, my bad. Cousin, for real?

Damn the shitshow gets deeper and deeper…

No, he had Alice Huang, not Hugh Wang.

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What you folks figure he never wears that jacket again, and switches to AMD…?

Wait wait wait, last I heard, his nephew cousin is CEO of AMD…

I still have my Yahoo account. Same username no less.

Yes, I’m that old…

I’m token right now, token on a joint.

Fuck M$

Yep, apparently 100% supported 👍

Oof, that’s gonna be a no-go for me. Though Termux is on Android, and actually is a variation of Linux, it’s a very hacked distro, as it doesn’t have access to the true / root folder, everything is stored in /data/data/com.termux/files/

So, every single program for Termux has to be modified and recompiled accordingly to comply. At least most mainline programs and packages are available and maintained, apparently lue isn’t available, and I ain’t in any hurry to modify and recompile it myself, but I probably could, if it was necessary.

I’ve installed Okular though and that works fine, plus pdftotext works fine in the terminal as well.

Thanks for the response and advice though 👍

Some dickhead AI CEO shot himself in the RAM sticks.

He fucked around and found himself out…

Trying this right now, supposed to make espeak read the entire document…

pdftotext go-1984.pdf -|espeak --stdin

Edit: This works, reads the entire document and doesn’t stop at line 200

WTF espeak? It stops at line 200, the last words it speaks are “little boy screaming with fright”

Goddamnit, WTF espeak? Guess I need to look up the man/help file for espeak to convince it to read the whole document…

I love all you awesome penguins, have a can of cool beans!

Yeah, actually I do already have the KDE packages installed for a couple other apps, so Okular was a nothing burger to get installed, and works perfectly 👍

Also, as far as speech, yeah that turned out pretty easy too…

pdftotext go-1984.pdf -|espeak

Ahh, awesome sauce with cool beans, thanks fellow penguin!

I just caught your edit regarding pkg update, yeah that’s like one of the first things I do before upgrading or installing any packages. Actually pkg is just an alias for apt anyways, same difference on Termux.

Once the GUI is all set up, synaptic package manager is also a nice healthy option to install 👍

Yeah, not exactly the easiest thing to set up and arrange, but it’s definitely a bit of a Linux upskill challenge. I wouldn’t categorize Termux as any sort of serious big boy daily driver nor gamer, but for most typical tasks, it gets the job done at least.

Here’s one of the tutorial videos I found explaining ways to set it up with a graphical desktop…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__bpMIBj30

Hahaha! I like your train of thought, I’d love to know the results of a read-only zero-size weights.bin file!

For realz though, I’m running Termux on a tablet with only 3GB RAM and barely able to keep ~3.5GB storage space free at any given moment, so Chrome ain’t getting any of my attention ya know…

Oh that’s funny, Termux ain’t your regular cup of penguin tea. Initially, it doesn’t even come with nano, the terminal based text editor. Termux runs on top of Android, non-rooted, and the base install might as well be like booting a barebones Linux terminal off of a few floppy disks.

So, there’s no such thing as a default app that comes with the ‘operating system’, you basically gotta build it up yourself.

It’s a fun journey though…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I__bpMIBj30

Yeah, I’m posting from Firefox right now, another commenter mentioned this just a few minutes ago. Honestly I’m not sure why the hell I didn’t think to try that first LMFAO! Guess I’m a fucking idiot…

Obligatory, fuck Chrome though, I ain’t got the space for their stupid weights.bin file, and I rather like the uBlock Origins plugin…

Well hot fucking damn, I’m posting from Firefox already, it never crossed my mind to try that, thanks!

Meanwhile, I finally got it reading 1984 out loud…

wget https://tinyurl.com/go-1984

pdftotext go-1984

cat go-1984.txt | espeak

Now I just can’t get the damn thing to shut up, short of force killing the speech engine LOL!